1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, Carnegie Tech
The Pitt lineup for the game against Carnegie Tech was Joe Donchess (left end), Charles Tully (left tackle), Ray Montgomery (left guard), Ralph Daugherty (center), Albert DiMeolo(right guard), James MacMurdo (right tackle), Paul Collins (right end), Edward baker (quarterback), Toby Uansa (left halfback), William Walinchus (right halfback) and Tom Parkinson (fullback). Substitutes appearing in the game for Pitt were James Rooney, James Clark, Leo Murphy, Jesse Quatse, Ed Hirschberg, Hart Morris, Vladimar Babic, Walter Milligan, William Loehr, Charles Edwards and Harry Wagner.


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, Penn State
The annual Thanksgiving Day battle with Penn State would determine Pitt's football fate in their drive for a national title and Rose Bowl invitation. Hugo Bezdek was in his twelfth and final year as coach of the Lions. The Nittanies had a 6-2 record, having lost to NYU (7-0) and Bucknell (27-6). The Panthers led the all-time series 17-12-2. Penn State had not beaten Pitt since 1919.


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, Penn State
The Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph noted: "Exactly 20 November games in all have been played by the Panthers under their present mentor, and of these they have won 16, tied 3 and lost one. The lone defeat was administered by the Presidents (W. & J.) in 1924."


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, Penn State
Ten Panthers made their last appearance at the stadium in a Pitt uniform on Thanksgiving Day: Tom Parkinson, Toby Uansa, Joe Donchess, Ray Montgomery, Albert DiMeolo, Charles Edwards, Al Corson, Markley Barnes, James Rooney and Felix Wilps. Coach Sutherland made two changes to the lineup. Halfback Josh Williams' injured knee did not respond to treatment, so he was replaced by William Walinchus and Ed Hirschberg replaced Paul Collins at end.


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, Penn State
The Pitt Panthers completed their undefeated regular season by beating the Nittany Lions 20 to 7. The Penn State defense was geared to stop Toby Uansa, so Tom Parkinson rushed for 182 yards and scored all 20 points for the Panthers. Pitt scored first after a 65-yard sustained drive with Parkinson plunging over from the one. His point after attempt was wide. Pitt led 6 to 0 at the end of the first quarter. Late in the second period the Penn State offense started a drive from their 47-yard line.


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, Penn State
After reaching the Pitt 26-yard line, the Panthers called time out to regroup, but nonetheless State quarterback Cooper French threw a touchdown pass to end Skip Stahley tying the game. Yutz Diedrich booted the point after. The ball hit the upright and bounced over the cross-bar. Pitt trailed for the first time all season. Halftime score: Penn State 7 to Pitt 6. Mid -third quarter, the Panther offense started on their 16-yard line and went 84 yards on 16 plays for the touchdown. Parkinson carried the ball on 11 plays, including the last 3 yards for the touchdown. His point after was successful and Pitt led 13 to 7 at the end of the third period. The Panther offense regained possession on their 47-yard line early in the fourth stanza, and minutes later Parkinson scored his final touchdown of the day and added the placement.


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, Penn State
The Pitt lineup for the game against Penn State was Joe Donchess (left end), Charles Tully (left tackle), Ray Montgomery (left guard), Ralph Daugherty (center), Albert DiMeolo (right guard), James MacMurdo (right tackle), Ed Hirschberg (right end), Edward Baker (quarterback), Toby Uansa (left halfback), William Walinchus (right halfback) and Tom Parkinson (fullback). Substitutes appearing in the game for Pitt were Paul Collins and Jesse Quatse.


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, Penn State
Penn State finished the season with a 6-3 record. Hugo Bezdek, with an over-all 12-year record of 65-30-11, but a 1-9-2 record versus the Panthers, was replaced by his assistant Bob Higgins.


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, Penn State
Pitt was invited to play a post-season benefit game for the Christmas Fund against Fordham or Colgate in New York City. The University Athletic Council turned down the offer in hopes that an invitation to the Rose Bowl would be forthcoming after the Penn State game.


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, Penn State
On December 4, the San Francisco Junior Chamber of Commerce invited the Panthers to play the undefeated St. Mary's Gaels at Kezar Stadium on December 21st. The Tournament of Roses committee chose USC for the Rose Bowl host team, so St. Mary's extended the offer to Pitt with the enticements of more money and cooler weather. The Panther Athletic Council declined the offer because the team would miss more than a week of classes.


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, vs USC (Rose Bowl)
On December 6, "Dr. H. E. Friesell, dean of the Pitt school of dentistry, and chairman of the Panther athletic schedule committee, was officially notified by long-distance telephone yesterday afternoon that Pitt had been selected by Southern California to represent the East in the Tournament of Roses battle." The Panthers accepted and Ralph Davis of The Pittsburgh Press wrote: "A defeat by the Trojans would be a humiliating blow to the Panther prestige. (Howard) Jones' boys by no stretch of the imagination, can be figured as a championship eleven. They have been beaten twice."


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, vs USC (Rose Bowl)
Hours before the Panther entourage boarded the train headed west, C. L. Woolridge, chairman of the athletic council, announced that Jock Sutherland would be retained as coach of the Panthers for the next five years. Woolridge stated: "The council had renewed the contract with Dr. Sutherland not only because it considers him one of the foremost coaches of the country, but also because it has a deep appreciation of his widespread influences in teaching good sportsmanship and clean living."


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, vs USC (Rose Bowl)
The second Rose Bowl trip under Jock Sutherland's leadership took a southwestern route so the team could become better accustomed to the heat of southern California. The Panther train departed Christmas night for St. Louis, where the team was unable to practice the following morning on the muddy Washington University field. Dallas, Texas was the next stop, with a practice session under ideal weather conditions on the field of Southern Methodist University.


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, vs USC (Rose Bowl)
On December 28 the train arrived in El Paso, Texas where the team had a short workout on the high school field before boarding the train for Tucson, Arizona and a day of rest at the Santa Rita Hotel. The Pittsburgh Panthers arrived in Pasadena on the evening of December 30 and stayed at the Hotel Huntington. "The squad will do no sight-seeing going to the coast, nor will it see the celebrations before the game. Sutherland will give the boys no opportunity to have their minds distracted from football."


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, vs USC (Rose Bowl)
The USC Trojans led by fifth year coach Howard Jones came into the game with a 9-2 record. Their two losses were at home against the California Bears (15-7) and at Chicago against Notre Dame (13-12). End Francis Tappaan was named first-team All-America by the United Press, the Newspaper Enterprise Association, the North American Newspaper Alliance and the All-American Board of Football. Captain and guard Nate Barragar was named second team All-America by the International News Service, the Central Press Association and Davis Walsh. Quarterback Russ Saunders garnered third team accolades from the Newspaper Enterprise Association and the North American Newspaper Alliance.


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, vs USC (Rose Bowl)
The Pasadena Post reported: 'With a wealth of reserve material and perfect mental attitude in the minds of players Coach Howard Jones felt confident that his charges would weather the test against the undefeated champions of the east."


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, vs USC (Rose Bowl)
Jock Sutherland told the San Francisco Examiner: "My men are apparently in good condition - no colds, no injuries – and they will be ready for a real fight. Just say the weather will have no effect whatever on the outcome."


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, vs USC (Rose Bowl)
The Pasadena Star-News New Year's Number noted:"The University of Southern California scored the most overwhelming victory in the history of the Tournament of Roses East-West football game, at the Rose Bowl the afternoon of January 1, 1930, when it defeated the University of Pittsburgh, 47 to 14."


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, vs USC (Rose Bowl)
Pitt received the opening kick-off. On the first play from scrimmage Toby Uansa sprinted around left end for a 68-yard gain to the USC 14-yard line where they lost the ball on downs. The Trojan offense controlled the rest of the first half, scoring four touchdowns and two extra points to lead 26 to 0 at halftime. Trojan quarterback Russ Saunders threw a 55-yard touchdown pass to halfback Harry Edelson to open the scoring. Gaius Shaver was good on the point after. Saunders then connected on a 25-yard scoring pass to halfback Ernest Pinckert. Shaver missed the placement.


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, vs USC (Rose Bowl)
End of first period: USC 13 to Pitt 0. Then the Trojans recovered a Pitt fumble on the Panther 18. Marshall Duffield replaced Saunders at quarterback and scored on a three yard end run. The placement bounced off the upright. The Trojans ended the first half with a 1-yard plunge by Duffield and the conversion by John Baker. Halftime score: USC 26 to Pitt 0. Saunders returned to his quarterback position to start the third period and raced 15 yards for a touchdown. Shaver tacked on the point to make the score 33 to 0.


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, vs USC (Rose Bowl)
The Panthers proceeded to sustain a drive and Uansa threw a 28-yard touchdown pass to William Walinchus to put the Panthers on the board. Tom Parkinson was good on the placement. The Panther defense could not stop the Trojans, as Saunders threw a 38-yard scoring toss to Edelson. Baker added the point to make the score USC 40 – Pitt 7. Pitt back Charles Edwards intercepted a Duffield pass and ran back to the USC 36-yard line. Josh Williams connected with end Paul Collins on a 36-yard touchdown pass. Parkinson added the point to make it USC 40 – Pitt 14. Duffield answered with a 62-yard scoring pass to Thomas Wilcox and drop-kicked the point after to finalize the game's scoring.


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, vs USC (Rose Bowl)
Statistically, the Panthers out gained the Trojans on the ground, but USC was dominant through the air. Southern Cal gained 454 total yards to 285 for the Panthers. USC completed 8 of 16 passes for 287 yards. Pitt completed 4 of 19 passes for 87 yards. USC gained 167 yards rushing to 199 for the Panthers. USC earned 14 first downs and Pitt 10.


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, vs USC (Rose Bowl)
Coach Sutherland praised the Trojans to The Los Angeles Times: "U.S.C. has come ahead, we have gone back since Thanksgiving Day. The Trojans played beautiful football, we fell down. I have seen few teams function better than U.S.C. did against us. My team's defense against Howard Jones's passing attack simply went to pieces."


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, vs USC (Rose Bowl)
The lineup for the game against USC was Joe Donchess (left end), Charles Tully (left tackle), Ray Montgomery (left guard), Ralph Daugherty (center), Albert DiMeolo (right guard), James MacMurdo (right tackle), Paul Collins (right end), Edward Baker (quarterback), Toby Uansa (left halfback), William Walinchus (right halfback) and Tom Parkinson (fullback). Substitutes appearing in the game for Pitt were Jesse Quatse, Hart Morris, Ed Hirschberg, James Clark, Charles Edwards, Josh Williams, Vladimar Babic, Leo Murphy, William Loehr, Walter Milligan, James Rooney, Markley Barnes, Ernest Lewis and Harry Wagner.


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Game summaries, vs USC (Rose Bowl)
The Panthers spent January 2nd and 3rd sightseeing in southern California, and then boarded the train for the trip home. The itinerary included stops at the Grand Canyon, where they met Charles Lindbergh, and the Indian ruins near Santa Fe, New Mexico. The Santa Fe visit was scratched so the University could save $1,200, and the players could get back for classes. The Panthers arrived back in Pittsburgh on January 8th. They were greeted by a crowd of 3,500, which included students, fans, the Pitt band and Chancellor John G. Bowman.


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Postseason
On January 29th at the annual football banquet, coach Sutherland named Edward Baker captain for the 1930 season, and W. D. Harrison, director of athletics, awarded letters to the following players: Albert DiMeolo, Edward Baker, Joe Donchess, Charles Tully, Ray Montgomery, Ralph Daugherty, James MacMurdo, Paul Collins, Charles Edwards, Toby Uansa, Harold Williams, Tom Parkinson, Jesse Quatse, Markley Barnes, Hart Morris, Edward Hirschberg, James Rooney, William Walinchus, James Clark and Manager Joe Bower.


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Postseason
On February 1st the Veteran Athletes of Philadelphia awarded the Panthers the Joseph H. Jolley Trophy emblematic of the Eastern football champions.


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Postseason
The Panther department of athletics named Walter A. Kearney student manager of the 1930 varsity football team. Mr. Kearney was a dental student and had been an assistant manager the past three seasons.


1929 Pittsburgh Panthers football team, Postseason
Author David Finoli in his book When Pitt Ruled The Gridiron wrote this assessment of the Pitt 1929 season after the bowl loss: "Any argument that Pittsburgh was a better team than Notre Dame much less Southern Cal became a moot point after this annihilation, the worst defeat by any school in Rose Bowl history to that point. Luckily, in the historical context, the experts of the day did not consider bowl games anything more than an exhibition, so Parke H. Davis did not consider the embarrassing effort when naming the Panthers 1929 national champions."


1929 Pittsburgh Pirates season
The 1929 Pittsburgh Pirates season was the 48th season of the Pittsburgh Pirates franchise; the 43rd in the National League. The Pirates finished second in the league standings with a record of 88–65.


1929 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1929 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1929 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1929 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1929 Pittsburgh Pirates season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1929 Pittsburgh mayoral election
The Mayoral election of 1929 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania was held on Tuesday, November 5, 1929. Incumbent Republican mayor Charles H. Kline was re-elected over Thomas A. Dunn, who ran on the Democratic and Good Government party tickets. Until this election, no mayor of Pittsburgh had won consecutive terms since Henry A. Weaver in 1858, owing in part to a prior long-standing law prohibiting a mayor from succeeding himself. As of 2021, this is the last time a Republican was elected mayor of Pittsburgh.


1929 Pittsburgh mayoral election, Primary elections
Prior to the Great Depression, Republicans dominated city politics. In this party's primary, Kline won a plurality of votes over Allegheny County Court of Common Pleas Judge Richard W. Martin and City Council President James F. Malone. Pittsburgh Chamber of Commerce president and future city police chief Dunn, although a registered Republican, entered the race as a Democrat and won that party's primary. Dunn also ran on a "Good Government" ticket, hoping to attract support from independents as well as disgruntled Republicans upset over corruption in the Kline government.


1929 Pittsburgh mayoral election, General election
Dunn failed to pull in enough independents to compensate for the anemic Democratic vote as Kline won easily, taking 28 of 30 wards.


1929 Pittsburgh mayoral election, General election
*Dunn received 29,838 votes on the Democratic ticket and 8,454 votes on the Good Government slate.


1929 Preakness Stakes
The 1929 Preakness Stakes was the 54th running of the $62,325 Preakness Stakes horse race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds. The race took place on May 10, 1929 and was run 8 days before the Kentucky Derby. Ridden by Louis Schaefer, Dr. Freeland won the race by one length over runner-up Minotaur. The race was run on a track rated fast in a final time of 2:01 3/5.


1929 Preston by-election
The Preston by-election, 1929 was a parliamentary by-election held in England for the House of Commons constituency of Preston on 31 July 1929. The seat had become vacant when the Liberal Member of Parliament William Jowitt had resigned his seat after changing his party allegiance.


1929 Preston by-election
Standing as a Liberal, Jowitt had won one of Preston's two seats at the general election in May 1929, having previously been Liberal MP for The Hartlepools from 1922 to 1924. After his return to the Commons in 1929, he was offered the post of Attorney General for England and Wales in the new Labour Government. He accepted the post, but resigned from Parliament and stood for re-election to allow voters to decide whether to accept his change of party.


1929 Preston by-election
Jowitt held the seat with an increased majority. The Liberals did not put forward a candidate, being demoralised following Jowitt's defection, and also lacking funds to fight an election. They did not become a force at parliamentary level in Preston again.


1929 Princeton Tigers football team
The 1929 Princeton Tigers football team represented Princeton University in the 1929 college football season. The Tigers finished with a 2–4–1 record under 16th-year head coach Bill Roper. No Princeton players were selected as first-team honorees on the 1929 College Football All-America Team.


1929 Providence Steam Roller season
The 1929 Providence Steam Roller season was their fifth in the league. The team failed to improve on their previous season's output of 8–1–2, winning only four games. They finished eighth in the league. The Steam Roller played in the first night game in league history against the Cardinals, losing 16–0.


1929 Providence Steam Roller season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1929 Purdue Boilermakers football team
The 1929 Purdue Boilermakers football team represented Purdue University in the 1929 college football season. In their eighth year under head coach James Phelan, the Boilermakers compiled an undefeated 8–0 record (5–0 Big Ten) and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 187 to 44.


1929 Queensland state election
Elections were held in the Australian state of Queensland on 11 May 1929 to elect the 72 members of the state's Legislative Assembly. In this election,  became the first woman to both stand and be elected into the Queensland Parliament.


1929 Queensland state election
The Labor government was seeking its sixth continuous term in office since the 1915 election; it would be Premier William McCormack's second election. His main opponent was the Country and Progressive National Party (CPNP), led by Arthur Edward Moore. The term had not gone well for McCormack's government, including a railway lock-out in 1927 which pitted the Labor Party against the union movement, restrictive financial policies and attempts to sell off state-owned enterprises, as well as suggestions of corruption which later came to be known as the Mungana affair.


1929 Queensland state election
The election resulted in the defeat of the McCormack government, and the first non-Labor ministry since 1915.


1929 Queensland state election, Results
The election saw the defeat of the Labor government by the CPNP.


1929 Queensland state election, Results
Queensland state election, 11 May 1929Legislative Assembly << 1926–1932 >>


1929 Queensland state election, Seats changing party representation
This table lists changes in party representation at the 1929 election.


1929 Queensland state election, Aftermath
The CPNP, found itself in power as the Great Depression took hold. It lost power after just one term.


1929 Railway Cup Hurling Championship
The 1929 Railway Cup Hurling Championship was the third series of the inter-provincial hurling Railway Cup. One match was played on 17 March 1929 to decide the title. It was contested by Leinster and Munster. Connacht were struck out of the tournament.


1929 Railway Cup Hurling Championship
On 17 March 1929, Munster won the Railway Cup after a 5-03 to 3-01 defeat of Leinster in the final at Croke Park, Dublin. This was their second title over all and their second title in succession.


1929 Railway Cup Hurling Championship
Munster's Connie Keane was the Railway Cup top scorer with 3-01.


1929 Regis Rangers football team
The 1929 Regis Rangers football team was an American football team that represented Regis College as an independent during the 1929 college football season. In their second season under head coach Red Strader, the Rangers compiled a 3–7 record and outscored opponents by a total of 156 to 153.


1929 Rhode Island State Rams football team
The 1929 Rhode Island Rams football team was an American football team that represented Rhode Island State College (later renamed the University of Rhode Island) as a member of the New England Conference during the 1929 college football season. In its tenth season under head coach Frank Keaney, the team compiled a 5–2–1 record (1–1 against conference opponents) and tied for third place in the conference.


1929 Rice Owls football team
The 1929 Rice Owls football team was an American football team that represented Rice University as a member of the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1929 college football season. In its first season under head coach Jack Meagher, the team compiled a 2–7 record (0–5 against SWC opponents) and was outscored by a total of 208 to 34.


1929 Richmond Spiders football team
The 1929 Richmond Spiders football team was an American football team that represented the University of Richmond as a member of the Virginia Conference during the 1929 college football season. Led by 16th-year head coach, Frank Dobson, Richmond compiled an overall record of 3–5–1. City Stadium opened as Richmond's new home field.


1929 Rose Bowl
The 1929 Rose Bowl was a college football bowl game and the 15th annual Rose Bowl Game. Played on January 1, 1929, the game saw the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets (also known at the time as the Georgia Tech Golden Tornado) defeat the California Golden Bears by a score of 8–7. The game was notable for a play in which Cal's All-American center Roy Riegels scooped up a Georgia Tech fumble and ran in the wrong direction towards his own goal line, earning him the dubious nickname, "Wrong Way". The two-point safety on the ensuing punt proved to be the margin of victory. Riegels' teammate Benny Lom, who attempted to tackle Riegels on the run, was named the Rose Bowl Player Of The Game when the award was created in 1953 and selections were made retroactively.


1929 Rose Bowl, Teams, Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets
This was the first appearance for Georgia Tech in a post season bowl game. They had run through their regular season schedule. This included a 13–0 win over Notre Dame and a 20–6 win over Georgia in the Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate rivalry game. They were named national champion by two organizations. They were invited by the Tournament of Roses committee to play in the game.


1929 Rose Bowl, Teams, California Golden Bears
California was not the Pacific Coast Conference champion in 1928. The 1928 USC Trojans, under coach Howard Jones, were the PCC champions, and also were named a national champion. They were undefeated with a 9–0–1 record. The lone blemish on the Trojans' record came at Cal, who had tied USC 0–0 on October 20. USC had defeated Notre Dame 27–14, the only common opponent with Georgia Tech. The University of Southern California declined the bid to play in the Rose Bowl. California, the second place team with a 3–0–2 conference record appeared instead to represent the Pacific Coast Conference.


1929 Rose Bowl, Teams, California Golden Bears
After tying USC, Cal had lost to the Olympic Club "Winged Os". The Bears beat Oregon, Washington and Nevada. They tied Stanford 13–13 in the 1928 Big Game. The Stanford Indians had appeared in the 1928 Rose Bowl where they defeated Pittsburgh 7–6, having been selected controversially over USC the year before.


1929 Rose Bowl, The game
On January 1, 1929, the Golden Bears faced the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California. Midway through the second quarter, Cal's Roy Riegels, who played center, picked up a fumble by Tech's Stumpy Thomason. Just 30 yards away from the Yellow Jackets' end zone, Riegels was somehow turned around and ran 65 yards in the wrong direction.


1929 Rose Bowl, The game
Teammate and quarterback Benny Lom chased Riegels, screaming at him to stop. Known for his speed, Lom finally caught up with Riegels at California's 3-yard line and tried to turn him around, but he was immediately hit by a wave of Tech players and tackled back to the 1-yard line. The Bears chose to punt rather than risk a play so close to their own end zone, but Tech's Vance Maree blocked Lom's punt for a safety, giving Georgia Tech a 2–0 lead.


1929 Rose Bowl, The game
Riegels was so distraught that he had to be talked into returning to the game for the second half. Lom passed for a touchdown and kicked the extra point, and Riegels blocked a Tech punt in the second half, but Tech would win the game—and their second national championship—by a final score of 8–7.


1929 Rose Bowl, Aftermath
After the game, coach Nibs Price defended Riegels, saying "It was an accident that might have happened to anyone." Price credits Riegels as the smartest player he ever coached. Riegels explained that he was hit during a pivot and wound up doing a U-turn, which faced him the opposite direction. Later, the NCAA football rules committee would pass a rule barring a player from advancing a recovered fumble once it hits the ground. Riegels would take his spot as captain during his senior year, earning All-America honors.


1929 Rose Bowl, Aftermath
Despite the nationwide mockery that followed, Riegels went on to live a normal life, serving in the United States Army Air Forces during World War II, coaching high school, and college football—including time at Cal—and running his own chemical company. He was even able to capitalize on his blunder, parodying the now-famous run in vaudeville acts. Riegels was inducted into the Rose Bowl hall of Fame in 1991.


1929 Rose Bowl, Aftermath
The character of "Lefty" Phelps in the movie Flight (1929), directed by Frank Capra, is based on Riegels and uses the incident to propel Phelps into the Marine Corps. The opening sequence uses photographs of Riegels during the actual Rose Bowl game.


1929 Rose Bowl, Aftermath
Benny Lom was named Most Valuable player of the game retroactively when the award was instituted in 1953.


1929 Rose Bowl, Aftermath
Riegels used his experience to encourage others who had made similar plays. In 1957, Paramount High School's Jan Bandringa had intercepted a pass only to run it 55 yards into his own end zone, resulting in a safety for Centennial High, who won the game 9–7. In a regular season game in 1964, Jim Marshall of the Minnesota Vikings also ran a recovered fumble into his own end zone. Both received word of encouragement from Riegels.


1929 Rose Bowl, Aftermath
In 1971, Tech's entire 1928 team was inducted into the Georgia Tech Hall of Fame. Roy Riegels and teammate Benny Lom attended as special guests. The Georgia Tech Letterman's Club presented Riegels and Lom with membership cards.


1929 Rose Bowl, Aftermath
In 1991, Riegels was inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame. Riegels died in 1993, at the age of 84. In 1998, he was posthumously elected to Cal's Hall of Fame.


1929 Rose Bowl, Aftermath
In 2003, a panel from the College Football Hall of Fame and CBS Sports chose Riegels' "Wrong way run in the Rose Bowl" one of six "Most Memorable Moments of the Century."


1929 Rutgers Queensmen football team
The 1929 Rutgers Queensmen football team represented Rutgers University in the 1929 college football season. In their third season under head coach Harry Rockafeller, the Queensmen compiled a 5–4 record, finished in a three-way tie for the Middle Three Conference championship, and outscored their opponents 109 to 94.


1929 Ryder Cup
The 2nd Ryder Cup Matches were held at the Moortown Golf Club in Leeds, England. It was very cold, with hail and at one point heavy snow on the greens. About two thousand spectators saw America gain a narrow lead after the foursome matches before the Great Britain team won singles on the final day and thus the competition by a score of 7–5 points. George Duncan of Scotland became the first of only three British captains to lift the Ryder Cup which was given to him by Samuel Ryder who was in attendance after missing the 1927 matches.


1929 Ryder Cup, Format
The Ryder Cup is a match play event, with each match worth one point. From 1927 through 1959, the format consisted of 4 foursome (alternate shot) matches on the first day and 8 singles matches on the second day, for a total of 12 points. Therefore, 61⁄2 points were required to win the Cup. All matches were played to a maximum of 36 holes.


1929 Ryder Cup, Teams
In late 1928, it was announced that a selection committee of five professional golfers would choose the Great Britain team for the 1929 Ryder Cup. This committee consisted of James Braid, Sandy Herd and J.H. Taylor together with James Batley and Bob McKenzie. In January 1929, the team of 10 (as below) were selected with Duncan as captain.


1929 Ryder Cup, Teams
The American team sailed on the Mauretania and arrived in Plymouth on 16 April and travelled to London the same day.


1929 Ryder Cup, Teams
Diegel celebrated his 30th birthday on the second day of the match.


1929 Ryder Cup, Teams
It was originally planned that, as in 1927, only eight players should be used by each team. However, Hagen wished to use all 10 of his players. This was agreed to, although Duncan announced that he would only select eight as originally intended. Alliss and Burns were left out.


1929 Ryder Cup, Teams
The Americans stayed in Europe to play in a number of tournaments and exhibition matches. The 1929 Open Championship played from 8 to 10 May was dominated by Americans. Hagen won with Farrell second and Diegel third. Two more of the American Ryder Cup team were in the top 10 which also included three more golfers then resident in the United States but born in the UK. The whole team played in the Yorkshire Evening News One Thousand Guineas Tournament at Moortown from 14 to 18 May which was won by Joe Turnesa.


1929 Ryder Cup, Teams
Horton Smith then won the French PGA Championship at St. Cloud on his 21st birthday. Smith had a 12 shot lead after the first day and although a third round 61 by Aubrey Boomer reduced his lead to five, Smith won the tournament by five strokes. Smith, Farrell and Hagen finished second, third and fourth in the German Open, a tournament won by Percy Alliss. It was not until 2 June that Hagen, Farrell, Turnesa, Dudley and Smith sailed from Southampton to return to New York.


1929 Ryder Cup, Friday's foursome matches
An unusual feature of the Moortown course was that all the five short holes were even numbered holes. This meant that the same player had the tee shot at those holes. In the Diegel/Espinosa pairing Diegel had the tee shots at the short holes and with some excellent irons shots and good putting from Espinosa they had three twos at these holes. At lunch they were round in 66, despite a 6 at the second hole, and were 7 holes up. The remaining match were all close with the American having small leads in two matches and the other match level.


1929 Ryder Cup, Friday's foursome matches
The Charles Whitcombe/Compston v Farrell/Turnesa match was always close and when the British pair levelled the match at the 15th hole of the second round, it was the fifth time they had got back to all square. The British pair then won the 16th with the 17th hole halved. At the last Whitcombe drove into a gorse bush which meant that Compston had to take a penalty shot. The American pair were also in trouble and their second shot finished near a fence with a refreshment tent between the ball and the green.


1929 Ryder Cup, Friday's foursome matches
Farrell having just enough room for his back-swing, played over the tent and finished 7 feet from the hole. the British pair could do no better than 6 and so the Americans won the hole to halve the match. In the final match, Golden and Hagen were 4 up early in the second round but Ernest Whitcombe and Cotton levelled the match. The Americans then won the last two holes to take the match.


1929 Ryder Cup, Friday's foursome matches
18 hole scores: Farrell/Turnesa: 1 up, Diegel/Espinosa: 7 up, Mitchell/Robson v Sarazen/Dudley: all square, Golden/Hagen: 2 up.


1929 Ryder Cup, Saturday's singles matches
At lunch three of the eight matches were almost decided with Charles Whitcombe and Duncan having commanding leads for the British team and Diegel in a similar situation for the Americans. Boomer won the last four holes in the morning to go from 2 down to 2 up. Cotton was one down playing the last hole of the morning. His second shot ended up on a path between the gorse bushes but he chipped in for a three to halve the match.


1929 Ryder Cup, Saturday's singles matches
Compston won the first three holes in the afternoon to go 4 up but then lost three to go back to 1 up before winning comfortably 6 & 4. With Boomer winning his match, the British team needed either Cotton or Ernest Whitcombe to get a point for Britain to win the Ryder Cup. Cotton won his match at the 15th to give Great Britain the victory and with Ernest Whitcombe going dormie at the 16th a sixth point of the day seemed likely. However Espinosa won the last two holes to halve the match.


1929 Ryder Cup, Saturday's singles matches
18 hole scores: Charles Whitcombe: 6 up, Duncan: 5 up, Diegel: 5 up, Compston: 1 up, Boomer: 2 up, Robson v Smith: all square, Cotton v Watrous: all square, Ernest Whitcombe v Espinosa: all square.


1929 Ryder Cup, Individual player records
Each entry refers to the Win–Loss–Half record of the player.


1929 Ryder Cup, Individual player records, Great Britain
Percy Alliss and Stewart Burns did not play in any matches.


1929 Rye Cove tornado outbreak
The 1929 Rye Cove tornado outbreak was a deadly tornado outbreak that swept from southwest to northeast along the Appalachian Mountains from Oklahoma to Maryland in early May 1929. This outbreak, which killed at least 42 people and injured at least 323, is notable as one of the worst to affect the states of Maryland and Virginia. It is also one of the most intense tornado outbreaks to affect Appalachia.


1929 Rye Cove tornado outbreak
The F2 tornado that struck Rye Cove, Virginia, is the deadliest tornado in Virginia history and tied for the thirteenth-deadliest to hit a school in the United States, with all 13 deaths in a school building. Western Virginia was particularly hard hit, with additional tornadoes confirmed in Alleghany, Bath, Culpeper, Fauquier and Loudoun Counties. One of these tornadoes, near Culpeper, also destroyed a school, but the storm struck during the evening after classes had been dismissed for the day.


1929 Rye Cove tornado outbreak, Confirmed tornadoes, Rye Cove, Virginia
At 12:55 p.m. local time, students attending Rye Cove High School, 6 mi (9.7 km) northeast of Clinchport (also 15 mi (24 km) northwest of Gate City), were resuming class after recess when a strong thunderstorm approached from the southwest. The storm produced a tornado, described as a dark cloud, that touched down .5 mi (0.80 km) southwest of the school. As it approached the school, the tornado intensified and tore the roofs off many structures. Strong winds lofted lumber for hundreds of yards, leaving pieces lodged in trees. Next to the school, the tornado struck a log home dating to about the 1850s, carrying away the entire structure and dispersing furniture up to 4 mi (6.4 km) away. A teacher at the school heard the wind increasing outside but did not alert her students.


1929 Rye Cove tornado outbreak, Confirmed tornadoes, Rye Cove, Virginia
The tornado then struck the school, which was the fourth-largest in Scott County and served 250 students, about 155 of which were in the building at the time. The building—which contained seven rooms, was of wood frame construction, and stood on a limestone foundation—collapsed and "exploded," flinging debris over a wide area. Winds moved the bodies of the dead up to 75 yards (69 m) from the foundation. The tornado continued past the school, destroying a total of five farmhouses before lifting, and reached a width of .25 mi (0.40 km).


1929 Rye Cove tornado outbreak, Confirmed tornadoes, Rye Cove, Virginia
All of the 13 deaths—12 students and one teacher—occurred at the school. Total losses reached $100,000. The legacy of the tornado lived on in local folklore as A. P. Carter of the Carter Family, having visited the storm-stricken area and assisted in relief efforts, immediately recorded a song about the storm.


1929 SANFL Grand Final
The 1929 SANFL Grand Final was an Australian rules football competition. Norwood beat Port Adelaide 110 to 69.


1929 SANFL season
The 1929 South Australian National Football League season was the 50th season of the top-level Australian rules football competition in South Australia.


1929 SMU Mustangs football team
The 1929 SMU Mustangs football team represented Southern Methodist University during the 1929 college football season.


1929 Saint Louis Billikens football team
The 1929 Saint Louis Billikens football team was an American football team that represented Saint Louis University during the 1929 college football season. In their second and final season under head coach Hunk Anderson, the Billikens compiled a 3–4–1 record and were outscored by a total of 55 to 31. The team played its home games at Public Schools Stadium (one game) and Sportsman's Park (three games) in St. Louis.


1929 Saint Mary's Gaels football team
The 1929 Saint Mary's Gaels football team was an American football team that represented Saint Mary's College of California during the 1929 college football season. In their ninth season under head coach Slip Madigan, the Gaels compiled an 8–0–1 record, shut out eight of nine opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 198 to 6. The Gaels' victories included a 24–0 besting of UCLA, a 54–0 besting of Nevada, and a 31–6 victory over Oregon. The lone setback was a scoreless tie with California.


1929 Saint Mary's Gaels football team
Two Saint Mary's players were selected by the United Press as first-team members of the 1929 All-Pacific Coast football team: halfback Stennett and tackle George Ackerman.


1929 San Diego State Aztecs football team
The 1929 San Diego State Aztecs football team represented San Diego State Teachers College during the 1929 NCAA football season.


1929 San Diego State Aztecs football team
San Diego State competed in the Southern California Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (SCIAC). The 1929 San Diego State team was led by head coach Charles E. Peterson in his ninth season as football coach of the Aztecs. They played five home games at Balboa Stadium and one at Navy "Sports" Field. The Aztecs finished the season with three wins and five losses (3–5, 1–5 SCIAC). Overall, the team was outscored by its opponents 81–96 points for the season.


1929 San Diego mayoral election
The 1929 San Diego mayoral election was held on March 19, 1929 to elect the mayor for San Diego. Incumbent mayor Harry C. Clark stood for reelection to a second term. In the primary election Clark received a majority of the votes and was elected outright with no need for a contested runoff.


1929 San Diego mayoral election, Campaign
Incumbent Mayor Harry C. Clark stood for reelection to a second term. On March 19, 1929, Clark received a majority of 58.9 percent of the vote in the primary election. This was more than 30 percent higher than what was received by Patrick O'Rourke, his nearest competitor. Clark received 99.8 percent of the vote in the uncontested runoff on April 2, 1929 and was elected to the office of the mayor.


1929 San Diego mayoral election, General Election results
Because Clark won outright in the primary with a majority of the vote, his was the only eligible name on the runoff ballot.


1929 San Jose State Spartans football team
The 1929 San Jose State Spartans football team represented State Teachers College at San Jose during the 1929 college football season.


1929 San Jose State Spartans football team
San Jose State competed in the Far Western Conference (FWC) for the first time in 1929. They had previously been a member of the California Coast Conference (CCC) from 1922 to 1928. The team was led by first-year head coach Mush Crawford, and they played home games at Spartan Field in San Jose, California. The team finished the season with a record of three wins, three losses and one tie (3–3–1, 2–1–1 FWC). The Spartans outscored their opponents 104–78 for the season.


1929 Santa Barbara State Roadrunners football team
The 1929 Santa Barbara State Roadrunners football team represented Santa Barbara State during the 1929 college football season.


1929 Santa Barbara State Roadrunners football team
Santa Barbara State competed as an Independent in 1929 and 1930. They had been a member of the California Coast Conference (CCC) from 1927 to 1928, but that conference disbanded after the 1928 season. The 1929 Roadrunners were led by second-year head coach Harold Davis and played home games at Peabody Stadium in Santa Barbara, California. They finished the season with a record of four wins, four losses and one tie (4–4–1). Overall, the team outscored its opponents 87–64 for the season.


1929 Santa Clara Broncos football team
The 1929 Santa Clara Broncos football team was an American football team that represented Santa Clara University during the 1929 college football season. In their first season under head coach Maurice J. "Clipper" Smith, the Broncos compiled a 5–3 record and outscored opponents by a total of 123 to 67.


1929 Santos FC season
The 1929 season was the eighteenth season for Santos FC.


1929 Saskatchewan general election
The 1929 Saskatchewan general election was held on June 6, 1929 to elect members of the Legislative Assembly of Saskatchewan.


1929 Saskatchewan general election
As a result of corruption scandals, the Liberal Party of Premier James Gardiner lost a significant share of its popular vote, but more important, lost twenty-two of the seats it had won in the 1925 election. While the Liberals held the largest number of seats in the legislature, they had only a minority. Gardiner tried to continue as a minority government, but was quickly defeated in a Motion of No Confidence, and resigned as premier.


1929 Saskatchewan general election
The Conservative Party of James T.M. Anderson increased its representation in the legislature from three to twenty four seats. Following Gardiner's resignation, Anderson was able to form a coalition government with the support of the Progressive Party and some independents.


1929 Saskatchewan general election
The Progressives had lost a large part of the popular vote it had won in 1925, but managed to retain five of the six seats it had won previously.


1929 Saskatchewan general election, Results
Note: * Party did not nominate candidates in previous election.


1929 Saxony state election
The 1929 Saxony state election was held on 12 May 1929 to elect the 96 members of the Landtag of Saxony.


1929 Segunda División
The 1929 Segunda División Grupo A season saw 10 teams participate in the second flight Spanish league. There was no team promoted to Primera División. Celta and Racing de Madrid were relegated to Tercera División.


1929 Segunda División Grupo B
The 1929 Segunda División Grupo B season saw 10 teams participate in the third level Spanish league. Cultural Leonesa and Real Murcia were promoted to the 1929–30 Segunda División. There were no teams relegated to another division. The following season this division renamed the Tercera División.


1929 Sewanee Tigers football team
The 1929 Sewanee Tigers football team represented the Sewanee Tigers of Sewanee: The University of the South during the 1929 college football season.


1929 Simmons Cowboys football team
The 1929 Simmons Cowboys football team represented Simmons University—now known as Hardin–Simmons University—as a member of the Texas Conference during 1929 college football season. Led by Frank Bridges in his third and final season as head coach, the team went 5–4–1 overall, tying for fourth place in the Texas Conference with a mark of 1–3–1.


1929 South African general election
General elections were held in South Africa on 12 June 1929. The National Party under James Barry Munnik Hertzog won an outright majority in the House of Assembly. Hertzog had the opportunity to form a government without the aid of the Labour Party. In fact the Pact government continued, with two ministers from the Creswell Labour faction remaining in office. The National Party remained the dominant party, for its second consecutive term.


1929 South African general election
Due to the split in the Labour Party, just eight MPs were elected for the party, of whom only four sat on the government benches. The leadership disputed between Colonel Frederic Creswell (of the Creswell Labour faction) and Walter Madeley (from the National Council Labour faction) following the split.


1929 South African general election, Delimitation of electoral divisions
The South Africa Act 1909 had provided for a delimitation commission to define the boundaries for each electoral division. The representation by province, under the fifth delimitation report of 1928, is set out in the table below. The figures in brackets are the number of electoral divisions in the previous (1923) delimitation. If there is no figure in brackets then the number was unchanged.


1929 South American Championship
The twelfth edition of the South American Championship was held in Buenos Aires, Argentina from November 1 to 17, 1929. The 1928 edition was postponed due to the participation of Chile, Uruguay and Argentina in the 1928 Summer Olympics held in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where Uruguay and Argentina won gold and silver respectively.


1929 South American Championship
The participating countries were Argentina, Paraguay, Peru, and Uruguay, while Brazil, Bolivia, and Chile withdrew from the tournament.


1929 South American Championship, Squads
For a complete list of participants squads see: 1929 South American Championship squads


1929 South American Championship, Final round
Each team plays a single match against each of the other teams. Two (2) points are awarded for a win, one (1) point for a draw and zero (0) points for a defeat.


1929 South American Championship squads
The following squads were named for the 1929 South American Championship that took place in Argentina.


1929 South American Championships in Athletics
The 1929 South American Championships in Athletics  were held in Lima, Peru between 5 and 10 May.


1929 South Carolina Gamecocks football team
The 1929 South Carolina Gamecocks football team was an American football team that represented the University of South Carolina as a member of the Southern Conference during the 1929 season. In their second season under head coach Billy Laval, South Carolina compiled a 6–5 record. Captain and center Julian Beall was second-team All-Southern.


1929 South Dakota Coyotes football team
The 1929 South Dakota Coyotes football team was an American football team that represented the University of South Dakota in the North Central Conference (NCC) during the 1929 college football season. In its third season under head coach Vincent E. Montgomery, the team compiled a 4–4–1 record (0–3–1 against NCC opponents), finished in fifth place out of five teams in the NCC, and outscored opponents by a total of 145 to 64. The team played its home games at Inman Field in Vermillion, South Dakota.


1929 South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team
The 1929 South Dakota State Jackrabbits football team was an American football team that represented South Dakota State University in the North Central Conference (NCC) during the 1929 college football season. In its second season under head coach Cy Kasper, the team compiled a 5–4–1 record and outscored opponents by a total of 237 to 55.


1929 South Georgia Teachers Blue Tide football team
The 1929 Georgia Southern Eagles football team represented the South Georgia Teachers College—now known as Georgia Southern University—during the 1929 college football season. The team was led by Crook Smith in his first year as head coach.


1929 South West African legislative election
Legislative elections were held in South West Africa on 3 July 1929. The whites-only election saw a victory for the United National South West Party, which won seven of the twelve elected seats in the Legislative Assembly.


1929 South West African legislative election, Electoral system
The Legislative Assembly had 18 seats, of which twelve were elected in single-member constituencies, and six were appointed by the territory's Administrator, Albertus Johannes Werth. The twelve constituencies were Gibeon, Gobabis, Grootfontein, Keetmanshoop, Kolmanskop, Luderitz, Okahandja, Omaruru, Swakopmund, Warmbad, Windhoek Central and Windhoek District.


1929 South West African legislative election, Results
One seat, Grootfontein, was won unopposed by the German League in South West Africa. Of the six members appointed by Werth, three were from the German League and three from the United National South West Party.


1929 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament
The 1929 Southern Conference Men's Basketball Tournament took place from March 1–March 4, 1929, at Municipal Auditorium in Atlanta, Georgia. The NC State Wolfpack won their first Southern Conference title, led by head coach Gus Tebell.


1929 Southern Conference football season
The 1929 Southern Conference football season was the college football games played by the member schools of the Southern Conference as part of the 1929 college football season. The season began on September 21. Led by captain Bill Banker, the Tulane Green Wave posted a 9–0, undefeated record.


1929 Southern Conference football season, Awards and honors, All-Southern team
The following includes the composite All-Southern team of more than 50 coaches and sports writers compiled by the Associated Press.


1929 Southern Illinois Maroons football team
The 1929 Southern Illinois Maroons football team was an American football team that represented Southern Illinois Normal University (now known as Southern Illinois University Carbondale) in the Illinois Intercollegiate Athletic Conference (IIAC) during the 1929 college football season. In its 17th season under head coach William McAndrew, the team compiled a 5–3–1 record. The team played its home games at Normal Field in Carbondale, Illinois.


1929 Southwest Texas State Bobcats football team
The 1929 Southwest Texas State Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Southwest Texas State Teachers College—now known as Texas State University–as a member fo the Texas Intercollegiate Athletic Association (TIAA) during the 1929 college football season. Led by 11th-year head coach Oscar W. Strahan, the Bobcats finished the season with an overall record of 6–1–2 and a conference mark of 4–0–2, winning the TIAA title. The team's captain was Cotton Branum.


1929 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football team
The 1929 Southwestern Louisiana Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented the Southwestern Louisiana Institute of Liberal and Technical Learning (now known as the University of Louisiana at Lafayette) in the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association during the 1929 college football season. In their eleventh year under head coach T. R. Mobley, the team compiled a 2–7 record.


1929 Soviet Union legislative election
In 1929, elections were held to the Congress of Soviets of the Soviet Union.


1929 Soviet Union legislative election
The elections were noteworthy for their rowdiness and elements of political opposition. Within the Communist Party, the Left Opposition attempted to run rival candidates against the officially nominated Communist candidates, while outside the party the Russian Orthodox Church attempted to create an organized opposition with religious candidates. Kulaks, Tolstoyans, and Baptists also were active in illicit anti-Communist electoral campaigning. Peasants demanded the creation of "peasant unions" on an equal footing with urban trade unions, and urban workers complained that Communist officials had become a new privileged class. Ethnic strife and the Soviet government's financial support of Comintern were also issues raised against the official candidates. Marches in opposition to the official candidates were held and in some areas in the provinces Communist officials were physically attacked.


1929 Soviet Union legislative election
However, in the actual elections the communist candidates won a large majority and the opposition forces did not make any headway.


1929 Spain v England football match
On 15 May 1929 at the Estadio Metropolitano in Madrid, the home stadium of Atlético Madrid, England's national team were defeated 4–3 by Spain in a friendly international football match. As a result, Spain became the first team from Continental Europe to defeat England, and doing so in the first meeting between the two countries. Such was the prestige of the match for the Spanish, it was the first ever to be publicly broadcast via radio. The match was refereed by Belgian official John Langenus, believed to be the top referee in the world at the time.


1929 Spain v England football match
The Home Nations had popularised the sport, and England were widely viewed as the greatest team in the world in the early 20th century. Their first matches against continental European sides resulted in high-scoring victories, but after World War I the gap in quality eventually narrowed, due in part to England's insularity and failure to evolve, as well as the increase in skill and innovation throughout Europe.


1929 Spain v England football match
Though England were favourites and in good form going into the match, the standard of Spanish football was greatly improving due to the influence of expat English coaches such as Atlético manager Fred Pentland, who at the time was assisting the Spain national team, as well as the recent professionalising of the sport, which included the creation of La Liga.


1929 Spain v England football match
Despite being played in searing heat which favoured the hosts, England went 2–0 up inside the opening 20 minutes through goals by Joe Carter and Joe Bradford following mistakes by goalkeeper Ricardo Zamora, a mainstay for Spain since their first international in 1920, and who injured his sternum early on. Spain came back into the match and levelled the score, goals from Gaspar Rubio and Jaime Lazcano making it 2–2 shortly before the half-time interval.


1929 Spain v England football match
England retook the lead in the second half thanks to a Carter penalty kick, only for Spain to again draw level and then take the lead themselves; Rubio scored the equaliser with 10 minutes remaining, and then Severiano Goiburu, an amateur footballer, scored the match winning goal. Both goals resulted in a pitch invasion from ecstatic Spanish fans which caused slight delays to the match, and no further goals ensured Spain had made history.


1929 Spain v England football match
The British press gave little coverage to the result, while those in the Spanish media were enthusiastic about Spain's performance and doubtful as to the quality of the English players. The match marked the final time a non-league football player represented England, Edgar Kail of Dulwich Hamlet never being selected to play for his country again, along with six other players. Neither team attended the following years' inaugural FIFA World Cup, but the two sides eventually competed in a rematch at the request of England; the fixture, played at Highbury in December 1931, was won 7–1 by the home side.


1929 Spain v England football match, Background
In the early 20th century, England viewed matches against teams from Continental Europe as an act of generosity, and The Football Association had created a second team with the purpose of playing in the matches. Spain had been one of the seven founder members of FIFA in 1904, a worldwide governing body for the sport intended to advance and organise the sport collectively, and though they  initially refused to join, England would join the following year, which allowed the Home Nations four individual football associations to remain separate. Though the England amateur team had already played on the continent, England departed the British Isles to play full internationals for the first time in the summer of 1908, defeating Austria 6–1 in their first match.


1929 Spain v England football match, Background
Demonstrating just how far England were ahead of the rest of the world at this point, this was followed by an 11–1 victory against the same opponents, a 7–0 win against Hungary, and finishing the tour with a 4–0 win over Bohemia.


1929 Spain v England football match, Background
Until the match against Spain, England had been undefeated in 23 matches against foreign opposition, winning 22 of them, with only the winners of the 1920 Olympics, Belgium, avoiding defeat, drawing 2–2 in 1923; such was the "humdrum" nature of these matches, they "barely warranted a mention in sporting press" according to writer Rory Smith in his book Mister: The Men Who Taught The World How To Beat England At Their Own Game. In the 23 matches, England had scored a total of 118 goals and conceded 26, but had withdrawn from FIFA in 1928.


1929 Spain v England football match, Background
Though England were achieving positive results, their performances were attracting the attention of critics such as James Catton, who wrote in Athletic News in 1923 that "unless players get out of the rut into which they have fallen, the game will lose its popularity and Great Britain her fame". Gabriel Hanot of L'Equipe saw threats to the English dominance from further afield, describing England as "farm horses" compared to the Uruguayan "Arab thoroughbreds". In his book The Anatomy of England: A History in Ten Matches, writer Jonathan Wilson describes England's lack of development as "institutional insularity".


1929 Spain v England football match, Background
Brian Glanville attributed it to the structure of the English league system, saying the possibility of relegation was the cause of conservatism and negativity within the English game, while Willy Meisl blamed an unimaginative interpretation of tactics. Arsenal forward Cliff Bastin was critical of the selection committee, saying they were "not particularly intelligent" as they favoured the talent of the individual rather than how they fit into the team.


1929 Spain v England football match, Background
A 1930 editorial in Athletic News highlighted the issue of player turnover, with 145 players selected for Home Nations Championship fixtures since the end of World War I. JM Freeman of the Daily Mail noted the "inferiority" of England's performance in finishing bottom of the 1927–28 British Home Championship, in comparison to Scotland who finished third having defeated England 5–1 at Wembley.


1929 Spain v England football match, Background
Spain had played their first international match in 1920, less than nine years prior to the fixture with England, taking part in the 1920 Olympics where they faced Denmark in the opening match; a goal from Patricio Arabolaza secured a 1–0 victory, though it was goalkeeper Ricardo Zamora who was Spain's key player in the match, particularly late on when injuries meant they had to finish the match with 10 players.


1929 Spain v England football match, Background
Spain were managed by José María Mateos, a former journalist and manager of Athletic Bilbao who had been part a management trio taking charge of Spain since 1922, and had taken sole charge of the team following a 7–1 defeat to Italy at the 1928 Olympics, In contrast to England's stubborn approach towards foreign football, the Spanish held the English in high esteem and their football heritage was treated with great reverence; several Spanish football clubs used English terminology in their names, and many coaches of the teams were from England; Athletic referred to England as "la madre del fútbol" (the mother of football).


1929 Spain v England football match, Background
Such was the profile of the fixture within Spain, it was the first football match to be publicly broadcast via radio, and it was said by Mundo Deportivo to be a "giant, transcendental step" for Spain to playing against England, and that a victory would see their "prestige consolidated throughout the world".


1929 Spain v England football match, Background, Pre-match
In May 1929, England had already achieved big victories over France and Belgium, winning 4–1 and 5–1 respectively, their allies in World War I who they had begun playing on a near-annual basis. The committee who selected England's players chose the same team for all three matches, changing only two players from the starting lineup of England's last competitive fixture against Scotland in April, namely defenders Tom Cooper and Ernie Blenkinsop coming into the team.


1929 Spain v England football match, Background, Pre-match
England's performance against France was deemed poor, with newspaper the Daily Sketch saying they "lacked speed and will have to play better if they are to beat Spain". Committee member Phil Bach told the Spanish press they had not been happy with the performance. During the match against Belgium, striker George Camsell, who had dislodged Dixie Dean from the team, scored four goals but picked up an injury which would rule him out of the match against Spain; Sporting Life said it was a "distinct loss".


1929 Spain v England football match, Background, Pre-match
It was the first meeting between the two countries; overall, it was Spain's 33rd international fixture, and England's 167th. It was to be the first Spain match played at the Estadio Metropolitano in Madrid, with tickets priced between 5 and 22 pesetas, which sold out two days in advance. The stadium, which was opened in 1923, was the home of Atlético Madrid from its inauguration until 1966. Mateos surprisingly opted not to select any players from Barcelona despite their being crowned inaugural La Liga champions a month later.


1929 Spain v England football match, Background, Pre-match
The professionalism of football in Spain had brought an upturn in results and performances internationally; in March they defeated Portugal 5–0 in Seville, and achieved a bigger victory against France than England had achieved, winning 8–1 in Zaragoza, with Gaspar Rubio scoring a hat-trick against Portugal and four against France, and Rubio told Royal Spanish Football Federation president Pedro Díaz de Ribera that he should be paid a bonus for each goal he scored against England. Half-back José María Peña was the first professional footballer in Spain, and was a key proponent of the Spain team throughout the 1920s. The Spain squad and Mateos had been preparing since February for the three fixtures due to be played.


1929 Spain v England football match, Match, Team selection
Spain's starting lineup had an average age of 24.5 years, and were captained by goalkeeper Zamora, with Félix Quesada and Jacinto Quincoces in defence. In the middle was Martín Marculeta, with half-backs Peña and Pachuco Prats, in for Paco Bienzobas as Spain's only change from the France match. The attacking five players for Spain consisted of José Padrón and Severiano Goiburu, the teams' only amateur player, behind centre-forward Rubio, who was flanked by left winger Mariano Yurrita and right winger Jaime Lazcano.


1929 Spain v England football match, Match, Team selection
Mateos had given 10 players their first international cap across the two previous matches, but no new débutants were announced for the England match. Alongside Mateos on the coaching team was Atlético Madrid manager Fred Pentland, who revolutionised the way many clubs in Spain played football and is regarded as the first great coach in the country, moving from the English-style kick-and-rush to a style focused on "skill, bravery in possession, short passing and quick movement".


1929 Spain v England football match, Match, Team selection
England's starting lineup, selected by an FA committee, had an average age of 28.9 years, and consisted of goalkeeper Ted Hufton behind a defensive pairing of Blenkinsop and Cooper, with Joe Peacock and Fred Kean at wing-half either side of Jack Hill, who was captaining England for what would be the sixth and final time. In the English attack, Joe Carter and Edgar Kail were positioned behind an attacking trio of outside left Leonard Barry and outside right Hugh Adcock, either side of centre forward Joe Bradford. Bradford was a surprise selection to the Spanish, who were expecting Dean to come back into the team to replace the injured Camsell. Both teams used a 2–3–5 formation.


1929 Spain v England football match, Match, Summary
The match was refereed by Belgian John Langenus, considered the best referee in the world at the time, and who would referee the first World Cup Final in 1930. Spain won the coin toss and chose for England to play the first half "into the winds with the sun at their backs". The match kicked off at 17:00 GMT in front of a crowd of what was officially estimated at 45,000, but believed to be more, though Wilson writes that the match commenced at 17:05 GMT as the Spain players were late out.


1929 Spain v England football match, Match, Summary
The first chance went Spain's way, their left-winger Yurrita hitting the post early on. Though accounts differ as to the precise minutes and scorers of the opening goals, England's right-winger Adcock set up two English goals in quick succession, using skill to beat a defender before centring the ball on both occasions; the Spanish media reported that inside-forward Carter and centre forward Bradford scored the goals, while the consensus among the English press was that Carter had scored both goals.


1929 Spain v England football match, Match, Summary
Unbeknown to everybody but himself, Spain goalkeeper Zamora injured his sternum when he accidentally collided with his own teammate, the halfback Peña, in the build-up to the first goal. Though England were clearly the superior side, they dropped their guard, and in quick succession Spain scored twice, first  through a header from centre forward Rubio, and then a 25-yard strike from right-winger Lazcano to go into the half-time break level at 2–2, the latter goal described by English newspaper The Times simply as "a brilliant shot".


1929 Spain v England football match, Match, Summary
The break had helped England, and they began dominating possession, eventually scoring a third goal in approximately the 73rd minute, when Adcock was fouled inside the penalty area and Carter scored his second of the match from the resulting penalty kick, though The Times reported that England's third was scored by halfback Hill following a clearance by England's goalkeeper Hufton.


1929 Spain v England football match, Match, Summary
"With the game drawing to a close England looked like good winners", reported Sporting Life, however amidst a "patriotic and electrifying atmosphere", Spain equalised again in the 80th minute, with Rubio scoring his second of the match with a powerful header, after good teamwork from Lazcano and inside forward Goiburu on the right wing. The goal was immediately followed by a pitch invasion, the jubilant Spanish crowd lifting Rubio onto their shoulders in celebration. The Guardia Civil with swords emptied the pitch of the invaders and play resumed. Quickly thereafter, Goiburu scored to put Spain 4–3 in front, resulting in a second pitch invasion. With the pitch cleared again, Zamora and fullback Quesada prevented two England chances late on, ensuring a historic victory for Spain.


1929 Spain v England football match, Aftermath, Press reaction
Despite turning out to be such a historic defeat, many in the British press hadn't travelled to Spain to report on the match, only a reporter from The Times known to be there, and in the ensuing days The Daily Mail and the Daily Mirror posted short reports, with The Guardian carrying no report. A correspondent from the Daily Express wrote; "I never thought I would live to see the day when 11 Spanish players humbled the might - more or less - of English soccer".


1929 Spain v England football match, Aftermath, Press reaction
Writing to Athletic News, a member of the FA praised the Spaniards as "very fast, and not lacking in skill and finesse". England captain Hill said that he was shocked by how well Spain had played, and that he was "really, really disappointed" in the outcome, but claimed the heat had handicapped his team.


1929 Spain v England football match, Aftermath, Press reaction
In Spain, Mundo Deportivo said the win had been achieved through the heart of the players rather than their technique, and paid tribute to the performances of Boiburu, Lazcano, Prats, and Padron on the Spanish team, with praise also given to England's Peacock and Adcock. La Vanguardia polemicised that "if England can't offer more than this, then English football is in crisis". Spanish journalist Alfredo Relaño believes the former site of the ground should have a plaque memorialising the historic occasion and paying tribute to the 11 players. Spain captain Zamora refuted any claims of luck, saying his team had "roundly imposed itself in the second half and that was the key to our success".


1929 Spain v England football match, Aftermath, Spain
Zamora was signed the following year by Real Madrid for 150k pesetas, becoming the highest paid player in Europe as a result. He was an integral part of the side which won their first La Liga championship in 1931–32, a season in which they were unbeaten, and conceded 17 goals the following season when they retained the title in 1932–33. Beginning in the 1950s, the 'Ricardo Zamora Trophy' would be awarded to the best goalkeeper in La Liga.


1929 Spain v England football match, Aftermath, Spain
Internationally, Zamora wouldn't feature in the inaugural FIFA World Cup in 1930, when Spanish clubs refused to allow their players to leave for an extended period of time, but was still the starting goalkeeper when Spain entered for the first time in 1934, with only Quincoces and Marculeta also remaining from the victory over England. Having defeated Brazil 3–1 in the first round, they came up against tournament hosts Italy.


1929 Spain v England football match, Aftermath, Spain
The teams played a violent and controversial match, with Italy receiving many favourable refereeing decisions, but the match finished 1–1, meaning a replay was played the following day which was won 1–0 by Italy in another match marred by controversy, following which referee René Mercet was banned for life. The match, and the tournament as a whole, would be subject to accusations of political interference from Prime Minister of Italy, Benito Mussolini.


1929 Spain v England football match, Aftermath, Spain
Pentland would return to manage Athletic Bilbao soon after, and would win consecutive La Liga championships in 1929–30 and 1930–31. The clubs' unique Basque-only signing policy, which had only previously been hinted at by the clubs hierarchy, was solidified thanks to the success Pentland achieved with the club. Quincoces, the standout defender at the 1934 World Cup, would later successfully revolutionise the defensive tactical approach from the then-popular 2–3–5 in which he excelled, into the 4–2–4 and later the 4–4–2 formations when manager at Real Madrid and Valencia in the 1940s.


1929 Spain v England football match, Aftermath, Spain
The scorer of two of Spain's goals, Rubio, suddenly left the country in 1930 and went to Cuba, effectively ending his international career. 20 years after the match, he would say that the equaliser to make the game 3–3 was the goal that gave him most joy throughout his career. Despite his brief spell representing his country, in which he scored nine goals in four matches, he is considered amongst the best players in Spain's history by AS, alongside Zamora and Quincones.


1929 Spain v England football match, Aftermath, England
With its false premium on rigid defence and the long pass, coaching became far more necessary, since such things as positional play and the art of ball control, neither indigenous to the type of game favoured by most British clubs, suddenly appeared no more than marginal. Since there were virtually no club coaches to keep these arts alive, it was inevitable that they should decline.


1929 Spain v England football match, Aftermath, England
—Brian Glanville writing retrospectively about the downturn of English football in the early 1930s.


1929 Spain v England football match, Aftermath, England
The match would be the final cap for seven of the England lineup - Hufton, Kean, Hill, Peacock, Kail, Carter, and Barry never played for their country again. Kail, who played his club football for Dulwich Hamlet, was the last non-league player to represent England. England made no immediate attempt at reconciliation with FIFA, not returning to the fold until 1946, and rejected the invitation to compete in the 1930 World Cup, which lead the British Press Association to refer to the tournament mockingly as the "so-called World’s Association Football Championship".


1929 Spain v England football match, Aftermath, England
With the rest of the world now catching up to England, they were being sought out for friendlies on a regular basis, failing to defeat both Austria and Germany in 1930, the match against the former directly lead to the FA stating they were "not in favour of granting permission to alien players to be brought into this country" when Arsenal attempted to sign goalkeeper Rudi Hiden, and the International Football Association Board wrote it into law the following year.


1929 Spain v England football match, Aftermath, England
Things got worse the following year when losing to France 5–2 in 1931 (described by German sports magazine Kicker as being "like a bombshell over the continent"), but defeated the Austria Wunderteam 4–3 in 1932, a result seen as fortunate for England, and though Austria's English manager Jimmy Hogan said that while his compatriots were still the best natural talents, he believed their lack of coaching and training was letting them down.


1929 Spain v England football match, Aftermath, England
England were ruled out as potential hosts for the next World Cup, with Italy chosen by FIFA; subsequently, it was Italy who were the next team to ask for a friendly against England, with the teams settling for a 1–1 draw in 1933 under the cloud of Mussolini's fascist reign. FA secretary Frederick Wall would reject an offer from the Italian Football Federation to have all expenses covered in exchange for entering the tournament, and Charles Sutcliffe said the Home Nations Championship "was a far more representative World Championship than what is taking place in Rome".


1929 Spain v England football match, Rematch
English representatives felt that the match had been played under extreme heat and on a dry pitch, so at a farewell banquet following the match, Stanley Rous requested a rematch with Spain. With the return match to be played at Highbury on 9 December 1931, the Spanish contingent travelled to London early, arriving on 4 December and watching a league match between West Ham United and Everton the following day, during which they witnessed England striker Dixie Dean in action, and were introduced to the fans at half-time to a good ovation. Spain would be only the second foreign team to play in England, with Belgium being the other on two prior occasions. According to Wilson, Zamora was unsettled by the refusal of the federation to allow players' partners to accompany them on the trip.


1929 Spain v England football match, Rematch
Captained by Blenkinsop, who was still accompanied in the defence by Cooper, England would emerge victorious by a score of 7–1; in addition to a goal from Dean, his last for England, there were two goals each scored by Sammy Crooks, Jack Smith and Tommy Johnson, and Spain's consolation came in the 87th minute from Guillermo Gorostiza, a "low, stinging drive" going past England goalkeeper Harry Hibbs. The defeat remains the heaviest ever suffered by Spain, and was one of the worst games of Zamora's international career.


1929 Speedway English Dirt Track League
The 1929 English Dirt Track League was the inaugural season of speedway in the United Kingdom for Northern English teams. There was also a Southern League called the 1929 Speedway Southern League that started during the same year.


1929 Speedway English Dirt Track League, Summary
The season was littered with mid-season withdrawals but eventually the Leeds were crowned champions. In 1930, the league was renamed the Northern League so the league existed for just one year. White City Speedway (Manchester) withdrew from the league after a dispute and would have been crowned champions if they had not done so because they were leading the table at the time.


1929 Speedway English Dirt Track League, Summary
Dennis Atkinson suffered critical injuries on 12 July 1929, following an accident at Cleveland Park Stadium riding in a Golden Helmet meeting. He died the following day.


1929 Speedway Southern League
The 1929 Southern League was the inaugural season of speedway in the United Kingdom for Southern British teams. There was also a Northern League called the 1929 Speedway English Dirt Track League that started during the same year.


1929 Speedway Southern League, Summary
Stamford Bridge were crowned as the first champions, just two points ahead of Southampton Saints. Hall Green withdrew after 7 meetings and their record was expunged.


1929 Spring Hill Badgers football team
The 1929 Spring Hill Badgers football team was an American football team that represented Spring Hill College, a Jesuit college in Mobile, Alabama, as member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) during the 1929 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach William T. Daly, the team compiled a 7–1 record.


1929 St. Ignatius Gray Fog football team
The 1929 St. Ignatius Gray Fog football team was an American football team that represented St. Ignatius College (later renamed the University of San Francisco) as an independent during the 1929 college football season. In its sixth season under head coach Jimmy Needles, the Gray Fog compiled a 4–3–1 record and was outscored by a total of 79 to 62.


1929 St. Louis Browns season
The 1929 St. Louis Browns season involved the Browns finishing 4th in the American League with a record of 79 wins and 73 losses.


1929 St. Louis Browns season, Regular season, Season standings
This would be the last time the franchise would finish about .500 in a peacetime season until 1960.


1929 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1929 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1929 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1929 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1929 St. Louis Browns season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1929 St. Louis Cardinals season
The 1929 St. Louis Cardinals season was the team's 48th season in St. Louis, Missouri and the 38th season in the National League. The Cardinals went 78–74 during the season and finished 4th in the National League.


1929 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Starters by position
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1929 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Batting, Other batters
Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1929 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Starting pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1929 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Other pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1929 St. Louis Cardinals season, Player stats, Pitching, Relief pitchers
Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1929 St. Xavier Musketeers football team
The 1929 St. Xavier Musketeers football team was an American football team that represented St. Xavier College (later renamed Xavier University) as a member of the Ohio Athletic Conference (OAC) during the 1929 college football season. In its tenth season under head coach Joseph A. Meyer, the team compiled a 6–4 record (0–2 against OAC opponents) and outscored all opponents by a total of 104 to 92.


1929 St. Xavier Musketeers football team
Prior to the 1929 season, a new football stadium was built on the school's athletic campus at a cost of $300,00. The new stadium was commonly known in 1929 as Corcoran Field which was the preexisting name of the school's athletic field. It was also sometimes referred to as St. Xavier Stadium. The formal dedication was conducted on November 23, 1929, prior to the game against Denison. Cincinnati Mayor Murray Seasongood presented the stadium to the college president.


1929 Stanford football team
The 1929 Stanford football team represented Stanford University in the 1929 college football season. In head coach Pop Warner's sixth season, Stanford finished second in the Pacific Coast Conference, losing just one conference game to eventual champion USC. The team played its home games at Stanford Stadium in Stanford, California.


1929 Stanley Cup Finals
The 1929 Stanley Cup Finals was played by the defending champion New York Rangers and the Boston Bruins. This was the first time in Stanley Cup Finals history that two American-based teams met in the Finals. Boston won the series to win its first championship.


1929 Stanley Cup Finals, Paths to the Finals
The playoffs were now between division finishers of each division, rather than a division champion from each division. The Boston Bruins knocked off the Montreal Canadiens, the New York Rangers beat the New York Americans, and the Toronto Maple Leafs beat the Detroit Cougars. The Rangers beat Toronto and then the Bruins won their first Stanley Cup defeating the Rangers. In the process, Boston became one of the few Cup winners in history to not lose a single game in the playoffs, and the last team until 1952 to win every playoff game they had.


1929 Stanley Cup Finals, Game summaries
Goalie Cecil "Tiny" Thompson backstopped the Bruins to consecutive wins and posted the third Stanley Cup shutout for a rookie. Game two was played at Madison Square Garden.


1929 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving
The 1929 Stanley Cup was presented to Bruins captain Lionel Hitchman by NHL President Frank Calder following the Bruins 2–1 win over the Rangers in game two.


1929 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving
The following Bruins players and staff had their names engraved on the Stanley Cup


1929 Stanley Cup Finals, Stanley Cup engraving, Stanley Cup engraving
† Name is listed on the team picture, but not engraved on the Stanley Cup in 1929.


1929 Star Riders' Championship
The 1929 Star Riders' Championship was the inaugural edition of the speedway Star Riders' Championship. The competition was decided in two sections, British riders and overseas riders, due to the strength of the more experienced overseas riders. It was held on a knockout basis over different tracks.


1929 Star Riders' Championship, Final standings, Heat details
1st RoundSprouts Elder bt Billy GallowayBilly Lamont bt Art PecharVic Huxley bt Ron JohnsonFrank Arthur bt Max GrosskreutzStan Catlett v Alf Chick (not raced)


1929 Star Riders' Championship, Final standings, Heat details
1st RoundBuster Frogley bt Jim KempsterIvor Creek bt Tommy CroombsJack Parker bt Jimmy HayesColin Watson bt Eric SpencerRoger Frogley bt Gus Kuhn


1929 Star Riders' Championship, Final standings, Heat details
2nd RoundRoger Frogley bt Ivor CreekColin Watson bt Buster FrogleyJack Parker (bye)


1929 State of the Union Address
The 1929 State of the Union Address was given by Herbert Hoover, the 31st United States President on Tuesday, December 3, 1929, to both houses of the 71st United States Congress. This is  the first State of the Union Address that Herbert Hoover would give to the Congress, and the 1929 Stock Market Crash had just begun. He said,


1929 Staten Island Stapletons season
The 1929 Staten Island Stapletons season was their inaugural season in the league. The team finished 3–4–3 and finished sixth in the league.


1929 Staten Island Stapletons season, Standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1929 Strasbourg municipal election
Elections to the municipal council of Strasbourg were held in France in May 1929 for a six-year term. An autonomist coalition, the Volksfront, defeated an anticlerical and assimilationist coalition of the incumbent socialist mayor, Jacques Peirotes. The Volksfront won 22 seats in the municipal council, with the French Communist Party winning 11 seats, the Autonomist Landespartei five seats, the Popular Republican Union four and the Alsatian Progress Party two seats. The socialist SFIO won four seats and the Democrats seven seats.


1929 Strasbourg municipal election
After the election, the Volksfront formed a municipal government with the soon-expelled regional Communist Party leader, Charles Hueber, as mayor and Michel Walter as deputy mayor.


1929 Sudbury municipal election
The Sudbury Municipal election in 1929 was scheduled for December 1, 1929. On November 23, 1929 the City of Sudbury, Ontario declared Peter Fenton mayor. In addition to the Mayor's post, City Council was also acclaimed.


1929 Sudbury municipal election, 1929 Election results
The results of the Mayoral and Aldermanic contests as reported by the Sudbury Star on November 23, 1929 are as follows:


1929 Swedish Ice Hockey Championship
The 1929 Swedish Ice Hockey Championship was the eighth season of the Swedish Ice Hockey Championship, the national championship of Sweden. IK Gota won the championship.


1929 Swiss referendums
Five referendums were held in Switzerland during 1929. The first three were held on 3 March on the issues of grain supply (a proposal and counter-proposal) and a federal law on tariffs. The counter-proposal to the grain supply question and the tariffs law were both approved. The fourth and fifth referendums were held on 12 May on popular initiatives on road traffic and banning spirits. Both were rejected by voters.


1929 Swiss referendums, Background
The grain supply, road traffic and spirits referendums were popular initiatives, which required a double majority; a majority of the popular vote and majority of the cantons. The decision of each canton was based on the vote in that canton. Full cantons counted as one vote, whilst half cantons counted as half. The tariffs law question was an optional referendum, requiring only a majority of voters in favour.


1929 Syracuse Orangemen football team
The 1929 Syracuse Orangemen football team represented Syracuse University in the 1929 college football season. The Orangemen were led by third-year head coach Lew Andreas and played their home games at Archbold Stadium in Syracuse, New York. Andreas was succeeded as football coach by Vic Hanson after the season, but remained as the Syracuse basketball coach for 21 more years.


1929 TCU Horned Frogs football team
The 1929 TCU Horned Frogs football team represented Texas Christian University (TCU) as a member the Southwest Conference (SWC) during the 1929 college football season. Led by first-year head coach Francis Schmidt, the Horned Frogs compiled and overall record of 9–0–1 overall with a mark of 4–0–1 in conference play, winning the SWC title. TCU played their home games at Clark Field, located on campus in Fort Worth, Texas.


1929 Tamworth by-election
The Tamworth by-election of 1929 was held on 2 December 1929. The by-election was held due to the resignation of the incumbent Conservative MP, Sir Edward Iliffe. It was won by the Conservative candidate Arthur Steel-Maitland.


1929 Tamworth by-election, Background
Sir Edward Iliffe had been MP for Tamworth since 1923. In the general elections of both 1923 and 1924 Iliffe had been returned unopposed. In the general election a few months earlier he had been challenged by Labour candidate George Horwill, but had been easily re-elected, with Horwill polling only 14,402 votes against Iliffe's total of 29,807.


1929 Tamworth by-election, Background
Horwill, an ex-railway clerk who held a BSc degree from the University of London, was again the Labour candidate in the by-election. The new Conservative candidate was Arthur Steel-Maitland, a former cabinet minister who had been a member of parliament from 1910, but who had lost narrowly lost his Birmingham Erdington seat at the recent general election.


1929 Tamworth by-election, Aftermath
At the next election Steel-Maitland substantially increased his majority to over 34,000 votes.


1929 Tasmanian floods
The most deadly floods on record in Tasmania's history occurred in April 1929 when 22 people were killed and 40 injured.


1929 Tasmanian floods
They became known as the 'great' floods and the generosity from other states in relief funds and work was invoked for some time after


1929 Tasmanian floods
The floods helped to prompt the construction of flood levees in Launceston, Tasmania's second-largest city and an important economic centre in the North of Tasmania.


1929 Tasmanian floods
Flooding was predicted by barometers: noting that: "Barometers are now falling, due apparently to the southward movement of the depression, and further rain is to be expected, with the probable flood falls in the north-east." A deep low-pressure cell over Victoria at 9am, Thursday, 4 April 1929 produced north-easterly winds across Tasmania. Rain intensified throughout the day, with the highest rainfall totals coming in the north-eastern corner of the state, but the effects were also felt across the North of the state directly affecting Burnie.


1929 Tasmanian floods
Hobart paper, The Mercury reporting about the flood in Derby (a North-Eastern mining town) below a failed dam:


1929 Tasmanian floods
...thousands of tons of water rushed at terrific speed down the narrow gorge to the township, uprooting trees and moving boulders of many tons weight as it passed.


1929 Tasmanian floods
The first warning was given, apparently by the Assistant Manager of the mine (Mr. W. A. Beamtish) as the waters came in sight, traveling at terrible speed, and so far as is known, Mr. Beamish, who is numbered among the seven men who were reported last night to be missing, was able to warn only those people who were in the mines office before it was overwhelmed, and he himself was carried away.


1929 Temple Owls football team
The 1929 Temple Owls football team was an American football team that represented Temple University as an independent during the 1929 college football season. In its fifth season under head coach Heinie Miller, the team compiled a 6–3–1 record and shut out six of its ten opponents. The team played its home games at Temple Stadium in Philadelphia.


1929 Tennessee Volunteers football team
The 1929 Tennessee Volunteers football team (variously "Tennessee", "UT" or the "Vols") represented the University of Tennessee in the 1929 college football season. Playing as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon), the team was led by head coach Robert Neyland, in his fourth year, and played their home games at Shields–Watkins Field in Knoxville, Tennessee. The 1928 Vols won nine, lost zero and tied one game (9–0–1 overall, 6–0–1 in the SoCon). In a virtual repeat of the previous year, a tie with Kentucky spoiled Tennessee's perfect season. Playing eight home games, the Volunteers outscored their opponents 330 to 13 and posted eight shutouts.


1929 Texas A&M Aggies football team
The 1929 Texas A&M Aggies football team represented Texas A&M during the 1929 college football season.


1929 Texas Longhorns football team
The 1929 Texas Longhorns football team represented the University of Texas at Austin in the 1929 college football season.


1929 Texas Mines Miners football team
The 1929 Texas Mines Miners football team was an American football team that represented Texas School of Mines (now known as the University of Texas at El Paso) as an independent during the 1929 college football season. In its first season under head coach Mack Saxon, the team compiled a 6–1–2 record and outscored opponents by a total of 154 to 46.


1929 Texas Tech Matadors football team
The 1929 Texas Tech Matadors football team represented Texas Tech University as an independent during the 1929 college football season. In their first and only season under head coach Grady Higginbotham, the Matadors compiled a 1–7–2 record and were outscored by opponents by a combined total of 141 to 31. The team played its home games at Tech Field.


1929 The Citadel Bulldogs football team
The 1929 The Citadel Bulldogs football team represented The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina as member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) in the 1929 college football season. Carl Prause served as head coach for the eighth season. The Bulldogs played home games at Johnson Hagood Stadium.


1929 Thuringian state election
The 1929 Thuringia state election was held on 8 December 1929 to elect the 53 members of the Landtag of Thuringia.


1929 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
The 1929 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship was the 39th staging of the Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship since its establishment by the Tipperary County Board in 1887.


1929 Tipperary Senior Hurling Championship
Thurles Sarsfields won the championship after a 4-03 to 1-03 defeat of Toomevara in the final. It was their eighth championship title overall and their first title since 1911.


1929 Toledo Rockets football team
The 1929 Toledo Rockets football team was an American football team that represented the Toledo University in the Northwest Ohio League (NOL) during the 1929 college football season. In their fourth season under head coach Boni Petcoff, the Rockets compiled a 4–2–1 overall record, with a 3–0–1 record and conference co-championship in the NOL.


1929 Toronto Argonauts season
The 1929 Toronto Argonauts season was the 43rd season for the team since the franchise's inception in 1873. The team finished in third place in the Interprovincial Rugby Football Union with a 3–3 record and failed to qualify for the playoffs.


1929 Toronto municipal election
Municipal elections were held in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on January 1, 1929. Sam McBride, who had been elected the year previous, was reelected mayor defeating former Alderman Brook Sykes by a large margin.


1929 Toronto municipal election, Toronto mayor
The central issue of the campaign was a plan to extend University Avenue south to connect to Front Street. McBride supported the plan, with Sykes opposing it due to the expense of buying a demolishing a large number of buildings.


1929 Toronto municipal election, Board of Control
There was only one change in the membership of the Board of Control. William D. Robbins lost his seat while W.A. Summerville gained one. This result was later overturned when it was discovered that Summerville was in arrears on his municipal taxes, and thus ineligible to hold office. He was not allowed to take his seat on the board, and a by-election was called for February. Summerville paid his taxes, and was then eligible to run. He won the by-election by a considerable margin, once again besting Cameron, Pearce, and Robbins.


1929 Toronto municipal election, City council
Results are taken from the January 2, 1929 Toronto Globe and may not exactly match final tallies.


1929 Toronto municipal election, Changes
The Board of Control by-election was held February 23, 1929:


1929 Toronto municipal election, Changes
Controller Joseph Gibbons resigned November 4, 1929 upon appointment as a Toronto Hydro Commissioner. Ward 7 Alderman Frank Whetter was appointed Controller on November 8; Samuel Ryding was appointed Alderman on November 12