1934 Lithuanian coup d'état attempt, Attempted coup
Using three tanks, the military blocked bridges and the railway station, took control of the General Staff and the central phone station, encircled the Ministry of Internal Affairs and the State Security Department. These and other strategic objects were taken without resistance. The police hurried to protect the Presidential Palace. It was protected by 127 police officers and 25 presidential guards, armed with carbines and automatic rifles. Voldemaras was flown from Zarasai to Kaunas, but he arrived already after the coup failed.


1934 Lithuanian coup d'état attempt, Attempted coup
Petras Kubiliūnas, Chief of the General Staff of Lithuania, acted as a negotiator between the military and the president. There is no evidence that he knew of the coup beforehand but it is clear that he did not attempt to stop it and that he attempted to negotiate on behalf of the rebellious military. His decision to join the rebels is usually explained as a result of his conflict with Minister of Defence Balys Giedraitis who blocked Kubiliūnas' efforts to reform the Lithuanian Army. Giedraitis, who was a cousin of Smetona's wife Sofija, was particularly disliked by the younger officers. Officers saw him as a passive official without proper education or skills.


1934 Lithuanian coup d'état attempt, Attempted coup
There were three rounds of negotiations between Smetona and the military. Smetona was supported by some of the officers and refused to negotiate. He could agree to some government changes but flatly refused to consider Voldemaras' return calling him a "political bandit". Smetona's supporters managed to alert the War School of Kaunas and the 2nd Infantry Regiment. They planned to use artillery to clear the blockade on the Panemunė Bridge leading into the city. Lacking resolve, the soldiers returned to their barracks. In particular, some author place the blame for the failed coup with Kubiliūnas who lacked determination and strong will. This is reflected in bailys (coward) – nickname assigned to him by the State Security Department.


1934 Lithuanian coup d'état attempt, Aftermath
Arrests started in the morning of 7 June. To bring the end to the coup, the president had promised not to prosecute people involved in the coup. To that end, the government passed a special law granting amnesty to the coup participants, but they were still subject to disciplinary actions. In total, 111 officers faced disciplinary action: 32 were acquitted, 5 reassigned to new units, 6 demoted, 46 dismissed from the military, 22 demoted to privates and released to reserve.


1934 Lithuanian coup d'état attempt, Aftermath
The ceremony demoting the 22 officers to privates took place on 10 July in witness of the 2nd Infantry Regiment and was conducted by the new commandant of Kaunas Kazys Skučas. However, the government supported the dismissed officers and helped them find new employment. The government was afraid that financial difficulties would only push the disgraced officers into various anti-government organizations.


1934 Lithuanian coup d'état attempt, Aftermath
The amnesty did not apply to the coup organizers. Voldemaras, although there is no evidence that he was involved in planning the coup, was sentenced to 12 years in prison on 17 June. Separately, he was tied for the article in Tautos balsas and received a six-month prison sentence in November 1934. He was released in 1938 on the condition that he would depart Lithuania.


1934 Lithuanian coup d'état attempt, Aftermath
A military tribunal presided by Edvardas Adamkavičius handed out death sentences to Stepas Gerdžiūnas (reserve officer and member of the Lithuanian Riflemen's Union) and Vytautas Kostas Druskis (former employee of the State Security Department) on 20 June and to Petras Kubiliūnas (Chief of the General Staff of Lithuania), Juozas Narakas (deputy commander of military aviation unit), and Juozas Bačkus (commander of the hussar unit) on 15 July 1934. However, Smetona commuted the sentences to imprisonment for 10–15 years and life sentence for Kubiliūnas. All five received presidential pardons and were released in 1937.


1934 Lithuanian coup d'état attempt, Aftermath
Smetona also replaced the key military commanders. Jonas Jackus, the director of the Kaunas War School who hurried to support Smetona, became the new Chief of the General Staff of Lithuania. Petras Šniukšta, a former classmate of Smetona at Mitau Gymnasium, became the new Minister of Defence. Many of the military commanders were also replaced by those who demonstrated loyalty during the coup of those with personal connection to Smetona. The new commanders more closely monitored soldiers' moods and tried to root out any kind of politicking.


1934 Lithuanian coup d'état attempt, Aftermath
For example, officers had to report any contact with officers who were disciplined after the coup. Supporters of Voldemaras attempted to stage two other coups in 1934, one in August and October, but these coups were discovered before they began and the organizers were arrested and sentenced to imprisonment for 2 to 15 years. To address officer shortages, a special 10-month course for reserve officers was organized by the War School of Kaunas. More than 300 men applied but only 110 were accepted and 103 graduated in May 1936.


1934 Lithuanian coup d'état attempt, Aftermath
Prime Minister Juozas Tūbelis tended his resignation, but Smetona did not accept it. Instead, a new cabinet of ministers was installed on 12 June 1934. The new government retained only the Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Tūbelis, Minister of Internal Affairs Steponas Rusteika, and Minister of Agriculture Jonas Pranas Aleksa.


1934 Liverpool City Council election
Elections to Liverpool City Council were held on 1 November 1934. One third of the council seats were up for election, the term of office of each councillor being three years.


1934 Liverpool City Council election
Eight of the forty seats up for election were uncontested.


1934 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Elections, Aldermanic Election 6 February 1935
Following the death on 8 January 1935 of Alderman Wilfred Bowring Stoddart (Conservative, elected as an alderman possibly following the death on 29 October 1932 of Alderman Joseph Dalton Flood. In his place, Councillor Alfred Gates JP (Liberal, elected for Anfield on 1 November 1932) of 15 Childwall Priory Road, Liverpool, was elected as an alderman on 6 February 1935.


1934 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Elections, Aldermanic Election 6 February 1935
The term of office to expire on 9 November 1938.


1934 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Elections, Aldermanic Election 6 March 1935
Following the death on 23 January 1935 of Alderman John Clancy (Labour, last elected as an alderman on 9 November 1929), Councillor James Bennett O.B.E. (Conservative, elected to the Castle Street ward at a by election on 29 November 1932 ), Managing Director of Red Rocks, Stanley Road, Hoylake, was elected as an alderman on 6 March 1935.


1934 Liverpool City Council election, Aldermanic Elections, Aldermanic Election 6 March 1935
The term of office to expire on 9 November 1935.


1934 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 1 Sandhills, 29 November 1934
Caused by the death of Councillor James William Joseph Baker (Labour, elected for the Sandhills ward on 1 November 1932)


1934 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 19 Kensington, 26 February 1935
Caused by the resignation of Councillor John Moores (Conservative, elected to the Kensington ward on 1 November 1933).


1934 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 5 Exchange, 28 February 1935
Caused by the death on 20 December 1934 of Councillor Miss Alice McCormick (Centre, elected 1 November 1932).


1934 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 29 Anfield, 26 March 1935
Following the death on 8 January 1935 of Alderman Wilfred Bowring Stoddart (Conservative, elected as an alderman possibly following the death on 29 October 1932 of Alderman Joseph Dalton Flood. In his place, Councillor Alfred Gates JP (Liberal, elected for Anfield on 1 November 1932) of 15 Childwall Priory Road, Liverpool, was elected as an alderman on 6 February 1935.


1934 Liverpool City Council election, By-elections, No. 7 Castle Street
Following the death on 23 January 1935 of Alderman John Clancy (Labour, last elected as an alderman on 9 November 1929), Councillor James Bennett O.B.E. (Conservative, elected to the Castle Street ward at a by election on 29 November 1932 ) was elected as an alderman on 6 March 1935.


1934 Liège–Bastogne–Liège
The 1934 Liège–Bastogne–Liège was the 24th edition of the Liège–Bastogne–Liège cycle race and was held on 13 May 1934. The race started and finished in Liège. The race was won by Théo Herckenrath.


1934 London County Council election
An election to the County Council of London took place on 8 March 1934. The council was elected by First Past the Post with each elector having two votes in the two-member seats. The Labour Party made large gains from the Municipal Reform Party, and for the first time won control of the council..


1934 London County Council election, Campaign
The Municipal Reform Party had run the council for 27 years, and ran on its record in government. In Finsbury, the party supported two independent "National Municipal" candidates. One of these candidates Michael Franklin belonged to the National Labour Organisation, the pro-National Government splinter party led by Ramsay MacDonald.


1934 London County Council election, Campaign
The Labour Party had never been the largest party on the council, and had lost ground at the previous election, in 1931. Its manifesto prioritised the construction of more housing, particularly in locations within the County of London or immediately surrounding it, and the reduction of municipal rents. It contested all seats except for those in the City of London and Kensington South, where the Municipal Reform candidates were elected unopposed, and St Marylebone where the Independent Labour Party stood instead.


1934 London County Council election, Campaign
The Liberal Party fielded only 26 candidates, ten of whom were not opposed by the Municipal Reform Party. The Times claimed that the party was a "spent force" in the capital, and that its best hope was to retain its six seats, which it might achieve only because of the assistance of the Municipal Reformers. Percy Harris, spokesperson for the Liberals, claimed that Labour had no chance of defeating its six sitting councillors. He proposed more housing, replanning of the London road network, and moving Covent Garden Market to the banks of the River Thames.


1934 London County Council election, Campaign
The Manchester Guardian described the election as difficult to predict, but noted that the Municipal Reformers were expecting to win, but with a reduced majority, while Labour believed they would win more seats and had a chance of taking control of the council. The Times predicted close contests in Battersea North, Camberwell North West, Fulham West, Greenwich, Hammersmith North, Hackney South, Kennington, Lambeth North, Mile End, Peckham, and three of the Islington constituencies.


1934 London County Council election, Results
Labour won a substantial victory, taking control of the council for the first time, while the Liberal Party was entirely wiped out. Among the defeated politicians was Harold Webbe, acting leader of the Municipal Reform Party. The party blamed its defeat on voter apathy.


1934 London, Scottish & Provincial Airways Airspeed Courier crash
On 29 September 1934, an Airspeed Courier of London, Scottish & Provincial Airways Ltd crashed just north of Shoreham, Kent. The aircraft was on a scheduled international passenger flight from Heston Aerodrome west of London to Le Bourget Airport, Paris. All four people on board were killed. Two people were injured by flying débris.


1934 London, Scottish & Provincial Airways Airspeed Courier crash, Aircraft
The accident aircraft was Airspeed Courier G-ACSY, c/n 16. The aircraft had been registered on 17 May 1934, The aircraft was on loan from Airspeed.


1934 London, Scottish & Provincial Airways Airspeed Courier crash, Accident
The aircraft took off from Hounslow Aerodrome at around 17:00 on a scheduled international passenger flight to Le Bourget Airport, Paris France. It flew into an isolated storm over north west Kent. An eyewitness reported seeing the aircraft emerge from the clouds in a vertical dive. The cloudbase was at an altitude of 1,200 feet (370 m) and the hills around Shoreham reached an elevation of 600 feet (180 m). The aircraft crashed just north of Shoreham in Timberden Bottom, at the bottom of Cockerhurst Road.


1934 London, Scottish & Provincial Airways Airspeed Courier crash, Accident
All four people on board were killed, Two women walking in the vicinity of the accident were injured when they were struck by flying débris. some parts of the aircraft were found 66 feet (20 m) to the south west and 100 feet (30 m) west of the main wreckage. An eyewitness stated that he thought the pilot may have stalled trying to avoid high tension power lines.


1934 London, Scottish & Provincial Airways Airspeed Courier crash, Accident
An inquest into the accident was held at Sevenoaks on 2 October. The victims were identified by documentation and personal belongings as they had received injuries which made visual identification "extremely difficult, if not impossible". Evidence was given that the aircraft was not operating anywhere near its maximum take-off weight of 4,000 pounds (1,800 kg) and that it had been airworthy on departure from Heston. The pilot, Ronald Smith (26) from Ealing, was an experienced former Royal Air Force pilot. He had 1,500 hours flying time, of which 150 hours were on the Heston-Paris route.


1934 London, Scottish & Provincial Airways Airspeed Courier crash, Accident
A memorial cross was installed near the crash site on Cockerhurst Road but after it was vandalised it was removed to Shoreham churchyard, by the north west corner of the tower.


1934 Los Angeles Angels season
The 1934 Los Angeles Angels season was the 32nd season in the history of the Los Angeles Angels baseball team. They won the Pacific Coast League (PCL) pennant with a 137–50 record, the best record in league history. Jack Lelivelt was the team's manager. The team played its home games at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles.


1934 Los Angeles Angels season, Season summary
The Angels entered the season as the PCL's defending champions, having won the pennant in 1933. They jumped out to an early lead in the standings, and in June, the PCL directors voted to split the season into two halves. When the first half ended on June 24, the Angels had a record of 66–18 for a .786 winning percentage and were 18 games ahead of the second-place team. Los Angeles then won the second half of the season with a 71–32 record, 12 games ahead of the second-place team. For the entire season, the Angels went 137–50, setting PCL records for wins and winning percentage (.733). They led all teams with a .299 batting average, 127 home runs, 1,118 runs, 991 runs batted in, 1,935 hits, 326 doubles, 2,762 total bases, and 195 stolen bases.


1934 Los Angeles Angels season, Season summary
Right fielder Frank Demaree was voted the league's most valuable player. In 186 games, he had a .383 batting average, 45 home runs, and 173 runs batted in to win the PCL triple crown. He also led the league with 190 runs, 269 hits, 51 doubles, 463 total bases, and a .660 slugging percentage. Other than the 1934 season, Demaree spent his professional baseball career in the National League from 1933 to 1943. Center fielder Jigger Statz hit .324 and stole 71 bases. Left fielder Marv Gudat appeared in all 188 games for the 1934 Angels and compiled a .333 batting average. All three members of the outfield (Demaree, Statz, and Gudat) were later inducted into the Pacific Coast League Hall of Fame.


1934 Los Angeles Angels season, Season summary
The team also included three pitchers who won 20 games. Fay Thomas had a 28–4 record, a 2.59 earned run average, and 204 strikeouts, leading the PCL in wins and strikeouts. His .875 winning percentage set a league record for pitchers with at least 20 decisions. Thomas was also later inducted into PCL Hall of Fame. Mike Meola compiled a 20–5 record, and Lou Garland went 21–9. Most of the 1934 Angels players appeared in Major League Baseball during their careers.


1934 Los Angeles Angels season, Season summary
At the end of the regular season, the PCL arranged a seven-game series between the Angels and an all-star team from the rest of the PCL. The Angels won the series, billed as the "Little World Series", four games to two.


1934 Los Angeles Angels season, Season summary
The 1934 Angels were selected as the greatest minor league team in baseball history by Minor League Baseball. In 2003, the 1934 Angels were selected as the best team in the PCL's 100-year history by a panel of minor league experts.


1934 Los Angeles Angels season, Player statistics, Batting
Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; AVG = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in


1934 Los Angeles Angels season, Player statistics, Pitching
Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; PCT = Win percentage; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts


1934 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team
The 1934 Louisiana Tech Bulldogs football team was an American football team that represented the Louisiana Polytechnic Institute (now known as Louisiana Tech University) as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association during the 1934 college football season. In their first year under head coach Eddie McLane, the team compiled a 4–6 record.


1934 Louisville Cardinals football team
The 1934 Louisville Cardinals football team was an American football team that represented the University of Louisville as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) during the 1934 college football season. In their second season under head coach Ben Cregor, the Cardinals compiled a 2–5 record.


1934 Lowestoft by-election
The 1934 Lowestoft by-election was an election held for the House of Commons of the United Kingdom's constituency of Lowestoft, it was the first ever by election in the constituency. It was held on Thursday 15 February 1934, polling stations opened between the hours of 8 am and 10 pm.


1934 Lowestoft by-election, Vacancy
The Conservative Party Member of Parliament (MP) Sir Gervais Rentoul resigned upon appointment as a Metropolitan Police Court Magistrate.


1934 Lowestoft by-election, Candidates
The candidates selected for the by election, were as follows Pierse Loftus who stood on behalf of the Conservative Party, Reginald Sorensen was selected on behalf of the Labour Party. William Smith a local Alderman and Justice of the Peace, stood for the Liberal Party. Some records describe Smith as an 'Independent Liberal', a term that was often used at this time to describe the official Liberal Party that was led by Sir Herbert Samuel, who opposed the National Government. However, there should be no doubt that Smith was an official Liberal candidate and was claimed as such in The Liberal Party Yearbook at the time.


1934 Lowestoft by-election, Campaign
In the weeks and months leading up to the by election several meetings took place, the Labour Party's meetings focussed on the towns fishing industry, an advert appeared in the Lowestoft Journal of 1934 stating that a meeting would take place at the towns hippodrome on Sunday 4 February 1934 at 7.30 pm. Guest speakers included the Rt Hon. Ted Kennedy, Noel Palmer and the Labour Party candidate himself.


1934 Lowestoft by-election, Campaign
The Conservative Party also decided to focus their campaign on the local fishing industry and Loftus conducted many meetings, in the run up to the election, this included one with the Southwold's women unionists. Loftus also conducted a constituency meeting on the Claremont Pier pavilion, where he was joined by speakers Geoff Shakespeare, a Liberal National MP for Norwich. The constituency meeting was described in a local paper as "full and lively".


1934 Lowestoft by-election, Campaign
Whereas William Smith the Liberal decided to concentrate his campaign on unemployment, this included unemployment at a national and a local level.


1934 Lowestoft by-election, Result
The Liberal vote was substantially down from its 1929 level. William Smith forfeited his deposit under Section 27 of the Representation of the People Act 1918.


1934 Loyola Lions football team
The 1934 Loyola Lions football team was an American football team that represented Loyola University of Los Angeles (now known as Loyola Marymount University) as an independent during the 1934 college football season. In their fifth season under head coach Tom Lieb, the Lions compiled a 7–2–1 record.


1934 Loyola Wolf Pack football team
The 1934 Loyola Wolf Pack football team was an American football team that represented Loyola College of New Orleans (now known as Loyola University New Orleans) as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) during the 1934 college football season. In its second season under head coach Robert Erskine, the team compiled a 4–5 record and was outscored by a total of 89 to 81. The team played its home games at Loyola University Stadium in New Orleans.


1934 Luxembourg general election
Partial general elections were held in Luxembourg on 3 June 1934, electing 29 of the 54 seats in the Chamber of Deputies in the south and east of the country. The Party of the Right won 12 of the 29 seats, but saw its total number of seats fall from 26 to 25.


1934 Luxembourg general election
The Communist Party of Luxembourg won its first seat, but it was later invalidated by a vote in the Chamber of Deputies. Its seat was given instead to the Luxembourg Workers' Party, who had voted against its expulsion.


1934 Madras Presidency Legislative Council election
In the fifth legislative council election to Madras Presidency  after the establishment of dyarchical system of government by the Government of India Act, 1919 the ruling Justice party lost the election and the opposition Swaraj Party emerged as the single largest party. However, it refused to form the government, due to its opposition to dyarchy. The incumbent chief minister, Raja of Bobbili retained power and formed a minority government.


1934 Madras Presidency Legislative Council election, Background
By 1933, constitutional reforms were imminent and dyarchy was expected to be abolished. The fourth council's term, which was to have ended on 5 November 1933, was extended by a year because it was believed a new council would not serve out its full term before dyarchy was abolished. But, after a year, the expected reforms had not materialized and fresh elections were held for a new council. The Justice party was split between the Zamindari and the non-Zamindari factions which struggled for power.


1934 Madras Presidency Legislative Council election, Background
The Zamindari faction eventually won and its leader, the Raja of Bobbili, became the chief minister in November 1932 replacing P. Munuswamy Naidu. His pro-land owner economic policies amidst the Great Depression were hugely unpopular. The Indian National Congress and its electoral arm, the Swaraj Party decided to participate in the elections despite their opposition to dyarchy. The Congress was greatly rejuvenated by its successful organisation of the Salt Satyagraha and Civil Disobedience movement of 1930-31. The Civil Disobedience movement, the Land Tax reduction agitations and Union organizations helped the Congress to mobilize popular opposition to the Bobbili Raja government. In contrast, the faction ridden Justice party had to dilute its main plank of anti-Brahminism and allow Brahmins to become members.


1934 Madras Presidency Legislative Council election, Constituencies
The Madras Legislative Council had a total of 132 members in addition to the  ex - officio members of the Governor's Executive Council. Out of the 132, 98 were elected from 61 constituencies of the presidency. The constituencies comprised three arbitrary divisions - 1) communal constituencies such as non-Muhammadan urban, non-Muhammadan rural, non-Brahman urban, Mohamaddan urban, Mohamaddan rural, Indian Christian, European and Anglo-Indian 2) special constituencies such as landholders, Universities, planters and trade associations (South India Chamber of Commerce & Nattukottai Nagarathar Association) and 3) territorial constituencies. 28 of the constituencies were reserved for non-Brahmans.


1934 Madras Presidency Legislative Council election, Constituencies
34 members were nominated, of whom a maximum of 19 would be government officials, 5 would represent women, 5 would represent the Paraiyar, Pallar, Valluvar, Mala, Madiga, Sakkiliar, Thottiyar, Cheruman and Holeya communities and 1 would represent the "backward tracts". Including the Executive Council members, the total strength of the legislature was 134. The franchise was limited based on property qualifications.


1934 Madras Presidency Legislative Council election, Results
The Justice party lost the election and the Swarajists emerged as the single largest party with 29 seats.


1934 Madras Presidency Legislative Council election, Government formation
The Swarajists refused to assume power due to their opposition to dyarchy. The Raja of Bobbili retained power by forming a minority government. Justice Party leaders R. K. Shanmukham Chetty and Arcot Ramasamy Mudaliar had lost their seats as the chief whip of the party M. A. Muthiah Chettiar withdrew his support for their candidature. Bobbili retaliated by dismissing him as the party whip. Chettiar responded by filing a no-confidence motion against the minority government. To appease him Bobbili replaced S. Kumaraswami Reddiar with Chettiar as the minister for Education. To appease other factions, he created a new ministry of home affairs and appointed Mohammad Usman and later A. T. Pannirselvam as its ministers.


1934 Maine Black Bears football team
The 1934 Maine Black Bears football team was an American football team that represented the University of Maine as a member of the New England Conference during the 1934 college football season. In its 14th season under head coach Fred Brice, the team compiled a 4–3 record (0–2 against conference opponents). The team played its home games at Alumni Field in Orono, Maine. George Cobb was the team captain.


1934 Maine gubernatorial election
The 1934 Maine gubernatorial election took place on September 10, 1934. Incumbent Democratic Governor Louis J. Brann defeated Republican challenger Alfred K. Ames.


1934 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
The 1934 Major League Baseball All-Star Game was the second playing of the mid-summer classic between the all-stars of the American League (AL) and National League (NL), the two leagues comprising Major League Baseball. The game was held on July 10 at the Polo Grounds in Manhattan, the home of the New York Giants of the National League. The game resulted in the American League defeating the National League 9–7.


1934 Major League Baseball All-Star Game
The game is well known among baseball historians for the performance of NL starting pitcher Carl Hubbell. After allowing the first two batters to reach base on a single and a base on balls, Hubbell struck out five of the game's best hitters – Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Jimmie Foxx, Al Simmons and Joe Cronin – in succession, setting a longstanding All-Star Game record for consecutive strikeouts.


1934 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Rosters
Players in italics have since been inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.


1934 Major League Baseball All-Star Game, Game, Umpires
Cy Pfirman, NL (home), Brick Owens, AL (first base), Dolly Stark, NL (second base), George Moriarty, AL (third base); the umpires rotated positions clockwise in the middle of the fifth inning, with Owens moving behind the plate.


1934 Major League Baseball season
The 1934 Major League Baseball season was contested from April 17 to October 9, 1934. The St. Louis Cardinals and Detroit Tigers were the regular season champions of the National League and American League, respectively. The Cardinals then defeated the Tigers in the World Series, four games to three.


1934 Manhattan Jaspers football team
The 1934 Manhattan Jaspers football team was an American football team that represented Manhattan College as an independent during the 1934 college football season. In its third season under head coach Chick Meehan, the team compiled a 3–5–1 record. In intersectional games, Manhattan tied with Kansas State and lost to Michigan State. The team played all of its games at Ebbets Field in Brooklyn.


1934 Mannin Moar
The 1934 Mannin Moar (formally known as II Mannin Moar) was a Grand Prix that was held on 2 June 1934 at a street circuit in Douglas, Isle of Man, United Kingdom. It was the twelfth round of the 1934 Grand Prix season, but it did not count towards the championship. The race, contested over 50 laps of 3.659 mi, or 5.889 km, was won by Brian Lewis driving an Alfa Romeo Tipo B after starting from pole position.


1934 Mannin Moar, Race report
Rose-Richards made the best start of the line, overtaking both Staniland and Dixon to get into second place after Lewis, who would eventually stay in the lead the entire race. Staniland retired after just two laps due to gearbox problems and Rose-Richards retired with a broken water pump, leaving second and third place open for Dixon and Sameiro.


1934 Mannin Moar, Race report
Between lap fifteen and lap forty, five drivers were forced to retire and the field was brought down to three cars. Although it was not an easy victory - his Alfa Romeo had lost a gear early in the race - Lewis took the flag after fifty laps ahead of Dodson and Paul.


1934 Manx general election
General elections were held in the Isle of Man between 23 and 29 November 1934. Independent candidates won a majority of seats in the House of Keys.


1934 Manx general election, Electoral system
The 24 members of the House of Keys were elected from 11 constituencies, which had between one and three seats.


1934 Manx general election, Campaign
A total of 39 candidates contested the elections; 30 independents, seven from the Manx Labour Party and two from Independent Labour.


1934 Marquette Golden Avalanche football team
The 1934 Marquette Golden Avalanche football team was an American football team that represented Marquette University as an independent during the 1934 college football season. In its 13th season under head coach Frank Murray, the team compiled a 4–5 record and outscored opponents by a total of 129 to 104. The team played its home games at Marquette Stadium in Milwaukee.


1934 Marquette Golden Avalanche football team
Frank Murray was Marquette's head football coach for 19 years and was posthumously inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 1983.


1934 Marshall Thundering Herd football team
The 1934 Marshall Thundering Herd football team was an American football team that represented Marshall College (now Marshall University) in the Buckeye Conference during the 1934 college football season. In its fourth season under head coach Tom Dandelet, the team compiled a 3–6 record, 0–4 against conference opponents, and was outscored by a total of 111 to 93. John Zontini was the team captain.


1934 Maryland Terrapins football team
The 1934 Maryland Terrapins football team represented the University of Maryland in the 1934 college football season. In their 24th and final season under head coach Curley Byrd, the Terrapins compiled a 7–3 record (3–1 in conference), finished in a tie for third place in the Southern Conference, and outscored their opponents 143 to 39. Coach Byrd went on to serve as the president of the University of Maryland from 1936 to 1954.


1934 Maryland gubernatorial election
The 1934 Maryland gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1934. Republican nominee Harry Nice defeated Democratic incumbent Albert Ritchie with 54.62% of the vote.


1934 Masaryk Grand Prix
The V Velká Cena Masarykova (1934 Masaryk Grand Prix, V Masarykův okruh) was a 750 kg Formula race held on 30 September 1934 at the Masaryk Circuit.


1934 Massachusetts State Aggies football team
The 1934 Massachusetts State Aggies football team represented Massachusetts State College in the 1934 college football season. The team was coached by Mel Taube and played its home games at Alumni Field in Amherst, Massachusetts. Mass State finished the season with a record of 5–3–1.


1934 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
The 1934 Massachusetts gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1934.


1934 Massachusetts gubernatorial election
Democratic Mayor of Boston James Michael Curley was elected to his only term as Governor of Massachusetts.


1934 Massachusetts gubernatorial election, Independents and third parties, Equal Tax
After losing both the Democratic and Republican primaries, Goodwin entered the general election as an independent on the "Equal Tax" platform.


1934 Masters Tournament
The 1934 Masters Tournament was the first Masters Tournament, held March 22–25 at Augusta National Golf Club in Augusta, Georgia. It was officially known as the "Augusta National Invitation Tournament" for its first five editions, but informally as the Masters from the start. Horton Smith won the event with a 20-foot (6 m) birdie putt at the 17th hole (now the 8th hole), and finished at 284 (−4), one stroke ahead of runner-up Craig Wood. (The current nines were reversed in 1934, switched to the current configuration prior to the 1935 event.) Tournament co-founder and host Bobby Jones finished ten strokes back at 294, tied for thirteenth place. The total purse was $5,000 and the winner's share was $1,500.


1934 Memorial Cup
The 1934 Memorial Cup final was the 16th junior ice hockey championship of the Canadian Amateur Hockey Association. The George Richardson Memorial Trophy champions Toronto St. Michael's Majors of the Ontario Hockey Association in Eastern Canada competed against the Abbott Cup champions Edmonton Athletics of the Edmonton Junior Hockey League in Western Canada. In a best-of-three series, held at Shea's Amphitheatre in Winnipeg, Manitoba, St. Michael's won their 1st Memorial Cup, defeating Edmonton 2 games to 0.


1934 Memorial Cup, Winning roster
John Acheson, Bobby Bauer, Frank Bauer, J.J. Burke, Mickey Drouillard, John Hamilton, Reg Hamilton, Art Jackson, Pep Kelly, Nick Metz, Leo McLean, Harvey Teno, Don Willson. Coach: Dr. W.J. LaFlamme


1934 Men's British Open Squash Championship
Then 1934 Open Championship featured the defending open champion and amateur champion F. D. Amr Bey of Egypt being challenged by Don Butcher the professional champion. The first leg was held at Butcher's Conservative Club on 12 November, but it was Bey once again who prevailed winning three games to one. The second leg took place on 19 November at the Bath Club, Bey at his home club was given his sternest test yet finally winning three games to two.


1934 Mercer Bears football team
The 1934 Mercer Bears football team  was an American football that represented Mercer University as a member of the Dixie Conference and the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) in the 1934 college football season. Led by Lake Russell in his sixth season as head coach, the team comped an overall record of 3–6–1 and with a mark of 0–2–1 in Dixie Conference play and 1–4 against SIAA competition.


1934 Merthyr by-election
The Merthyr by-election, 1934 was a parliamentary by-election held on 5 June 1934 for the British House of Commons constituency of Merthyr in Wales.


1934 Merthyr by-election
The seat had become vacant when the Labour Member of Parliament (MP) Richard Wallhead had died on 27 April 1934, aged 64. He had won the seat at the 1922 general election as a Labour candidate. At the 1931 general election, he had been returned as an Independent Labour Party (ILP) candidate, but had rejoined the Labour Party in 1933.


1934 Merthyr by-election
The Labour candidate, S. O. Davies, held the seat for his party.


1934 Mestaruussarja – Finnish League Championship
The 1934 season was the fifth completed season of Finnish Football League Championship, known as the Mestaruussarja.


1934 Mestaruussarja – Finnish League Championship, Overview
The 1934 Mestaruussarja  was contested by 8 teams, with HPS Helsinki winning the championship which was also known as the A-sarja. TPS Turku and UL Turku were relegated to the second tier which was known as the B-sarja.


1934 Mexican general election
General elections were held in Mexico on 1 July 1934. The presidential elections were won by Lázaro Cárdenas, who received 98.2% of the vote.


1934 Miami Hurricanes football team
The 1934 Miami Hurricanes football team represented the University of Miami as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) in the 1934 college football season. The Hurricanes played their home games at Moore Park in Miami, Florida. The team was coached by Tom McCann, in his fourth and final year as head coach for the Hurricanes. Finishing the season with a 5–3–1 record, the Hurricanes were invited to play in the first edition of the postjseason Orange Bowl. The Hurricanes lost, 26–0, to Bucknell.


1934 Miami Redskins football team
The 1934 Miami Redskins football team was an American football team that represented Miami University as a member of the Buckeye Athletic Association (BAA) during the 1934 college football season. In its third season under head coach Frank Wilton, Miami compiled a 5–4 record (2–2 against conference opponents) and finished in third place out of five teams in the BAA.


1934 Michigan State Normal Hurons football team
The 1934 Michigan State Normal Hurons football team represented Michigan State Normal College (later renamed Eastern Michigan University) during the 1934 college football season. In their 13th season under head coach Elton Rynearson, the Hurons compiled a record of 5–2 and outscored their opponents by a combined total of 109 to 79. Charles H. Earl was the team captain. The team played its home games at Normal Field on the school's campus in Ypsilanti, Michigan.


1934 Michigan State Normal Hurons football team, Game summaries
The Hurons opened their 1934 season on October 6 with a 26–6 victory over Northern State Teachers College (now known as Northern Michigan University). The game was played in Ypsilanti. Hanneman blocked a punt in the first quarter to set up the Hurons' first touchdown. An interception and a fumble set up the next two Huron touchdowns. Parker scored two touchdowns, and LeBlond and Dirkse each scored one.


1934 Michigan State Normal Hurons football team, Game summaries
On October 13, 1934, the Hurons lost to Iowa State Teachers College (now known as the University of Northern Iowa) by a 38 to 0 score. The game was played in Cedar Falls, Iowa.


1934 Michigan State Normal Hurons football team, Game summaries
On October 20, 1934, the Hurons lost a close game to Central State Teachers College (later renamed Central Michigan University) by a score of 13 to 12. The game was played in the rain in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. The Hurons led 12 to 6 after two touchdowns by Hanneman in the first and third quarters. Central drove for the winning touchdown late in the final minute of the fourth quarter.


1934 Michigan State Normal Hurons football team, Game summaries
On November 3, 1934, the school's homecoming game was played against St. Viator College. The homecoming celebration included a parade, class games, an interscholastic run, the football game, and a dance. The football game was played in front of a crowd of 6,000 alumni and students at Briggs Field. Parker and Hanneman scored touchdowns for the Hurons in a 13–0 victory.


1934 Michigan State Normal Hurons football team, Game summaries
On November 10, 1934, the Hurons defeated Ferris Institute by a 9–7 score at Briggs Field in Ypsilanti. The Hurons opened the scoring in the first quarter when end Christy Wilson "blocked a Bulldog punt with his face" and the ball bounced into the end zone for a safety. The Hurons scored a touchdown in the second quarter on a short run by Watson Welever. The touchdown was set up by a Ferris fumble that was recovered by the Hurons at the Ferris 20-yard line.


1934 Michigan State Normal Hurons football team, Game summaries
On November 17, 1934, the Hurons concluded their 1934 season with a 34–14 victory over Indiana State. Fullback Homer H. Parker scored three touchdowns for the Hurons. The game was played at Terre Haute, Indiana.


1934 Michigan State Spartans football team
The 1934 Michigan State Spartans football team represented Michigan State College in the 1934 college football season. In their second season under head coach Charlie Bachman, the Spartans compiled an 8–1 record, outscored opponents by a total of 153 to 56, and won their annual rivalry game with Michigan by a 16 to 0 score. In inter-sectional play, the team defeated Carnegie Tech (13-0), Manhattan (39-0), Kansas (6-0), and Texas A&M (26-13), but lost to Syracuse (10-0).


1934 Michigan State Spartans football team
Key players include Kurt Warmbein at left halfback, Art Brandstetter Sr. at fullback, Russ Reynolds at quarterback and Ed Klewicki at end. Warmbein was selected as the 1934 Man of the Year among football players in Michigan.


1934 Michigan Wolverines football team
The 1934 Michigan Wolverines football team was an American football team that represented the University of Michigan in the 1934 Big Ten Conference football season. In their sixth season under head coach Harry Kipke, the Wolverines compiled a 1–7 record (0–6 against Big Ten opponents) and finished last in the Big Ten. Prior to the 1934 season, the Wolverines had compiled a 22-game undefeated streak dating back to October 1931.


1934 Michigan Wolverines football team
Right tackle Thomas Austin was the team captain, and center Gerald Ford was selected as the most valuable player. Ford later became the 38th President of the United States. End Willis Ward was the team's leading scorer and received second-team honors from the College Sports Writers on the 1934 College Football All-America Team.


1934 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Pre-season
Prior to the 1934 season, the Wolverines had won Big Ten championships in 1932 and 1933 while compiling a 22-game unbeaten streak. However, the team lost its leading players, including Whitey Wistert, Chuck Bernard, Ted Petoskey, Herman Everhardus, and Stanley Fay, to graduation in the spring of 1934.


1934 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: Michigan State
On October 6, 1934, Michigan lost, 16–0, at Michigan Stadium in its annual rivalry game with Michigan State. The Detroit Free Press reported that the opening day crowd was 30,000 persons. After a scoreless first half, Kurt Warmbein ran for two touchdowns in the fourth quarter for Michigan State. Michigan State dominated the game statistically with 182 yards from scrimmage to 72 for Michigan, and with 15 first downs to three for Michigan.


1934 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 1: Michigan State
The loss broke Michigan's 22-game unbeaten streak dating back to October 1931. It was also the Spartans' first victory over the Wolverines since 1915 and only the third in 29 games. After the game, a group of Michigan State supporters rushed the field and attempted to tear down the goal posts at the north end of the field. Michigan fans then charged the field to protect the goal posts. Fist fights ensued, and the "rioting" continued for 20 minutes.


1934 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 2: at Chicago
On October 13, 1934, Michigan lost, 27–0, to the Chicago Maroons at Stagg Field in Chicago. The loss was the most decisive for the Wolverines in the history of the Chicago–Michigan football rivalry dating back to the 1890s. Quarterback Tommy Flinn and halfbacks Jay Berwanger (the first player to win the Heisman Trophy) and Ned Bartlett starred for Chicago. Berwanger and Bartlett each scored two touchdowns. Statistically, the game was closer than on the scoreboard, as the Maroons out-gained the Wolverines by 174 yards for scrimmage to 159 for Michigan.


1934 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Georgia Tech
On October 20, 1934, Michigan defeated Georgia Tech by a 9–2 score before a crowd of 20,000 at Michigan Stadium. After a scoreless first half, Michigan quarterback Ferris Jennings returned a punt 70 yards for a touchdown in the third quarter. Vincent Aug kicked the extra point. On the final play of the quarter, Michigan blocked an attempted Georgia Tech pass from the end zone, and William F. Borgmann fell on the ball for a safety.


1934 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Georgia Tech
The Georgia Tech game is best known for a racial incident involving Michigan's African-American end Willis Ward. Georgia Tech football coach and athletic director W. A. "Bill" Alexander refused to allow his team to take the field if Ward played. As early as the fall of 1933, Alexander wrote to athletic director Fielding Yost asking what was going to be done about Ward, asserting that his team would not take the field if Ward played.


1934 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Georgia Tech
As the game approached, word spread that Georgia Tech was insisting that Ward not play, and that the administration might capitulate to the demand. Ward's right to play became a major controversy on the campus. Mass meetings and demonstrations were held. Some students and faculty demanded that either Ward must play or the game should be canceled. Petitions were circulated, and formal protests were lodged with the university by the Ann Arbor Ministerial Association, the NAACP, the National Student League and many other groups.


1934 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Georgia Tech
The student newspaper, the Michigan Daily opined: "If the athletic department forgot it had Ward on its football team when it scheduled a game with Georgia Tech, it was astonishingly forgetful; ... if it was conscious of Ward's being on the team but scheduled the game anyway, it was extraordinarily stupid."


1934 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Georgia Tech
Time magazine ran a story about the uproar on Michigan's campus: "Fifteen hundred Michigan students and faculty members signed a petition asking that the team's star end, Negro Willis Ward, be allowed to play against Georgia Tech." According to Time, 200 "campus radicals" threatened to prevent the game from being played by standing in the middle of the field. Rumors of a sit-down protest on the 50-yard line during the game spread across campus in the week before the game.


1934 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Georgia Tech
One alumnus recalled that, the night before the game, "bonfires lit all over the campus echoed with screams of student anger, and 'Kill Georgia Tech' was heard throughout Ann Arbor." In an attempt to thwart any attempt to disrupt the game, Yost hired a Pinkerton agent to infiltrate "The United Front Committee on Ward", a conglomerate of student organizations that supported Ward's right to play.


1934 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Georgia Tech
Athletic authorities argued that Ward should not play because it would be discourteous to Georgia Tech, and he might be injured. There was fear that if Ward played, he would be injured by malicious blows after the play had ended. Playwright Arthur Miller, then a writer for Michigan's student newspaper, learned first-hand about the strong resistance among the Georgia Tech team to playing on the same field with an African-American athlete. In his biography of Miller, Enoch Brater noted that Miller had friends from Arkansas who knew one of the Georgia Tech players.


1934 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Georgia Tech
Brater described Miller's involvement this way: "Remmel [Miller’s friend from Arkansas] took Miller with them to meet with members of the team, to protest but also to appeal to the athletes' sense of fair play. ' Miller was right in the middle of this', Remmel recalls. Not only did the visiting team rebuff 'the Yankee' Miller 'in salty language', but they told him they would actually kill Ward if he set one foot on the Michigan gridiron. ' The Georgia Tech team was wild.' Miller was furious. He ‘went immediately to the office of the Michigan Daily and wrote an article about it, but it was not published.' . . . Remmel said that Miller 'could not believe that the Georgia Tech team would have tried to destroy Willis Ward—but, I am sure they would have.'"


1934 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 3: Georgia Tech
In the end, Ward was not allowed to play. As his teammates faced Georgia Tech, there are conflicting reports as to Ward's whereabouts. According to Time, Ward "sat calmly in a radio booth, watched his teammates defeat the Southerners, 9-to-2." According to Behee, Ward was not even allowed to watch the game from the press box, or even from the bench of his own stadium. Instead, he spent the afternoon in a fraternity house. A third account states that Kipke "quietly sent Willis Ward off to scout another Michigan game in Wisconsin." The day after the Georgia Tech game was played, an editorial ran in The Michigan Daily stating "that everyone who touched (the Ward affair) did so only to lose in respect and esteem."


1934 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 4: Illinois
On October 27, 1934, Michigan lost to Illinois by a 7–6 score at Michigan Stadium. Illinois took a 7–0 lead in the second quarter on a short touchdown run by John Theodore and successful extra point kick by Lester Lindberg. In the third quarter, fullback John Regeczi passed to end Michael Savage who then tossed a forward lateral to Willis Ward; Ward then ran 24 yards for a touchdown. Ward's kick for extra point went wide, and Illinois maintained a one-point lead. Michigan was held to 28 rushing yards and 34 passing yards in the game. The Illini gained 100 rushing yards and 72 passing yards.


1934 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 5: at Minnesota
On November 3, 1934, Michigan lost to Minnesota by a 34–0 score before a crowd of 59,362 in Minneapolis. Minnesota's victory returned the Little Brown Jug to Golden Gophers for the first time since 1927. After a scoreless first half, Minnesota scored 20 points in the third quarter and 14 in the fourth. Pug Lund starred for Minneapolis. The Golden Gophers out-gained the Wolverines by 307 yards from scrimmage to 76. Minnesota went on to an undefeated season and was recognized as the 1934 national championship.


1934 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 6: Wisconsin
On November 10, 1934, Michigan lost to Wisconsin by a 10–0 score before a crowd of estimated at 25,000 at Michigan Stadium. Michigan out-gained Wisconsin by 120 rushing yards to 48 and 36 passing yards to 19. Despite mustering only 67 yards from scrimmage, Wisconsin managed to score twice. Halfback Lynn Jordan returned the opening kickoff 100 yards for a touchdown. The second Wisconsin score was set up by what the Detroit Free Press called "the most ridiculous play" of the season. John Regeczi took the snap in Michigan's end zone for a punt, then decided to run, ran three yards, changed his mind again, and finally kicked with three Badgers in front of him. The kick was blocked, Wisconsin recovered, and a field goal extended the Badgers' lead to 10 points.


1934 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 7: at Ohio State
On November 17, 1934, Michigan lost its annual rivalry game with Ohio State by a 34–0 score at Ohio Stadium in Columbus, Ohio. The crowd of 68,000 was the largest in the Western Conference during the 1934 season. The game was Francis Schmidt's first against Michigan as Ohio State's head coach; he went on to win his first four games against Michigan. The Buckeyes scored five touchdowns, including three in the fourth quarter, and totaled 310 rushing yards and 141 passing yards. The Wolverines were held to only six net rushing yards and 34 passing yards. Ohio State touchdowns were scored by Dick Heekin (one-yard run in first quarter), Damon Wetzel, Frank Antenucci (recovered a Michigan fumble in the end zone), Merle Wendt (long pass from Frank Fisch), and Frank Comiskey (long pass from Tippy Dye).


1934 Michigan Wolverines football team, Season summary, Week 8: Northwestern
On November 24, 1934, the Wolverines lost, 13–6, to Northwestern at Michigan Stadium. Willis Ward, playing his last game for Michigan, kicked two field goals for Michigan. Michigan led, 3–0, at halftime. The score was tied at 6–6 at the end of the third quarter. Northwestern took the lead in the fourth quarter on a one-yard touchdown run by Hugh Duvall. The defeat brought an end to the worst season in Michigan football history up to that time.


1934 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Varsity letter winners
The following 25 players received varsity letters for their participation on the 1934 Michigan football team. For players who were starters, the list also includes the number of games started by position. Players who started at least half of Michigan's games are displayed in bold.


1934 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Varsity reserves
The following six players were identified as varsity reserves on the roster of the 1934 Michigan football team.


1934 Michigan Wolverines football team, Personnel, Others
The following players were also included on the roster of the 1934 Michigan football team.


1934 Michigan gubernatorial election
The 1934 Michigan gubernatorial election was held on November 6, 1934. Republican nominee Frank Fitzgerald defeated Democratic nominee Arthur J. Lacy with 52.41% of the vote.


1934 Milan–San Remo
The 1934 Milan–San Remo was the 27th edition of the Milan–San Remo cycle race and was held on 26 March 1934. The race started in Milan and finished in San Remo. The race was won by Jef Demuysere.


1934 Millsaps Majors football team
The 1934 Millsaps Majors football team was an American football team that represented Millsaps College as a member of the Dixie Conference and the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) in the 1934 college football season. Led by Tranny Lee Gaddy in his third season as head coach, the team compiled an overall record of 7–1–2 and with a mark of 2–1–1 in Dixie Conference play and 4–0–2 against SIAA competition.


1934 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
The 1934 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team represented the University of Minnesota in the 1934 college football season. In their third year under head coach Bernie Bierman, the Golden Gophers compiled an undefeated 8–0 record, shut out four opponents, and outscored all opponents by a combined total of 270 to 38.


1934 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
The team was named national champion by eight NCAA-designated major selectors in Billingsley, Boand, Dickinson, College Football Researchers Association, Helms, Litkenhous, National Championship Foundation, and Sagarin), with Alabama also receiving recognition.


1934 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
Halfback Pug Lund was selected for the team's Most Valuable Player award for the second consecutive year. Lund also received Chicago Tribune Silver Football, awarded to the most valuable player of the Big Ten, and was named an All-American by the AP, Collier's Weekly/Grantland Rice, Liberty, Walter Camp Football Foundation and Look Magazine.


1934 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
End Frank Larson was named an All-American by the Associated Press (AP), Collier's Weekly/Grantland Rice and Look Magazine. Guard Bill Bevan was named an All-American by Collier's Weekly/Grantland Rice, Liberty and Look Magazine. End Bob Tenner was named an All-American by the United Press International. Tackle Phil Bengtson, Bevan, Larson, Lund, Tenner, and tackle Ed Widseth were named All-Big Ten.


1934 Minnesota Golden Gophers football team
Total attendance for the season was 192,922, which averaged to 38,584. The season high for attendance was against rival Michigan.


1934 Minnesota gubernatorial election
The 1934 Minnesota gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 1934. Farmer–Labor Party candidate Floyd B. Olson defeated Republican Party of Minnesota challenger Martin A. Nelson.


1934 Minnesota lieutenant gubernatorial election
The 1934 Minnesota lieutenant gubernatorial election took place on November 6, 1934. Minnesota Farmer–Labor Party candidate Hjalmar Petersen defeated Republican Party of Minnesota challenger Franklin F. Ellsworth and Minnesota Democratic Party candidate Arthur D. Reynolds.


1934 Mississippi College Choctaws football team
The 1934 Mississippi College Choctaws football team was an American football team that represented Mississippi College as a member of the Dixie Conference and the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association (SIAA) in the 1934 college football season. Led by Stanley L. Robinson in his 11th season as head coach, the team compiled an overall record of 5–4 and with a mark of 2–2 in Dixie Conference play and 4–2 against SIAA competition.


1934 Mississippi State Maroons football team
The 1934 Mississippi State Maroons football team represented Mississippi State College during the 1934 college football season.


1934 Mississippi State Teachers Yellow Jackets football team
The 1934 Mississippi State Teachers Yellow Jackets football team was an American football team that represented the Mississippi State Teachers College (now known as the University of Southern Mississippi) as a member of the Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Association during the 1934 college football season. In their fourth year under head coach Pooley Hubert, the team compiled a 3–4–2 record.


1934 Missouri Tigers football team
The 1934 Missouri Tigers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Missouri in the Big Six Conference (Big 6) during the 1934 college football season. The team compiled a 0–8–1 record (0–5 against Big 6 opponents), finished in sixth place in the Big 6, and was outscored by all opponents by a combined total of 172 to 25. Frank Carideo was the head coach for the third of three seasons. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Columbia, Missouri.


1934 Missouri Tigers football team
The team's leading scorer was Harold Bourne with 13 points.


1934 Mitropa Cup
The 1934 season of the Mitropa Cup football club tournament was won by AGC Bologna who defeated Admira Wien 7–4 on aggregate in the final. It was Bologna's second victory in the competition, having won it previously in 1932. The two legs of the final were played on 5 September and 9 September.


1934 Mitropa Cup
This was the eighth edition of the tournament. Holders FK Austria Wien were eliminated in the first round


1934 Monaco Grand Prix
The 1934 Monaco Grand Prix (formally the VI Grand Prix de Monaco) was a Grand Prix motor race held on 2 April 1934 at Circuit de Monaco in and out of Monte Carlo. The race comprised 100 laps of a 3.180km circuit, for a total race distance of 318.0km.


1934 Monaco Grand Prix
The Association Internationale des Automobile Clubs Reconnus (AIACR) had announced on 12 October 1932 that a new Grand Prix formula will go into effect for the 1934 season, and the 1934 Monaco Grand Prix was the first Grand Épreuve event run under the new regulations. Although one of the new rules required the race distance to be over 500 km, Monaco GP was permitted to be run for 100 laps or 318 km, as the time required to complete 100 laps at the slow Circuit de Monaco was comparable to 500 km at faster tracks such as Monza.


1934 Monaco Grand Prix
The race was won by Guy Moll, a newly recruited Algerian of Scuderia Ferrari, driving an Alfa Romeo Tipo B/P3. In addition to winning the first race after the enrollment to the Ferrari team, Moll (at 23 years and 10 months old) remained the youngest driver to have won a Monaco GP until Lewis Hamilton (at 23 years and 4 months) won in 2008.


1934 Monaco Grand Prix, Classification
Fastest Lap:  Carlo Felice Trossi (Alfa Romeo Tipo B/P3), 2m00s


1934 Monmouth by-election
The Monmouth by-election, 1934 was a by-election held for the British House of Commons constituency of Monmouth in Wales on 14 June 1934. It was won by the Conservative candidate John Herbert.


1934 Monmouth by-election, Vacancy
The seat had become vacant on when the sitting Conservative Member of Parliament (MP), Sir Leolin Forestier-Walker had died at the age of 68 on 13 May 1934. He had held the seat since the 1918 general election.


1934 Monmouth by-election, Candidates
The Labour Party candidate was Rev. D Hughes, who had been the unsuccessful candidate at the 1931 general election.


1934 Monmouth by-election, Result
On a reduced turnout, Herbert held the seat for the Conservatives, with a comfortable majority of nearly 10,000 votes. He was re-elected in 1935, but resigned in 1939 to become Governor of Bengal.


1934 Montana Grizzlies football team
The 1934 Montana Grizzlies football team represented the University of Montana in the 1934 college football season as a member of the Pacific Coast Conference (PCC). The Grizzlies were led by fourth-year head coach Bunny Oakes, played their home games at Dornblaser Field and finished the season with a record of two wins, five losses and one tie (2–5–1, 0–4–1 PCC).


1934 Montana State Bobcats football team
The 1934 Montana State Bobcats football team was an American football team that represented Montana State College (later renamed Montana State University) in the Rocky Mountain Conference (RMC) during the 1934 college football season. In its seventh season under head coach Schubert R. Dyche, the team compiled a 2–5 record (0–4 against RMC opponents) and was outscored by a total of 95 to 38.


1934 Montreux Fascist conference
The 1934 Montreux Fascist conference, also known as the Fascist International Congress, was a meeting held by deputies from a number of European Fascist organizations. The conference was held on 16–17 December 1934 in Montreux, Switzerland. The conference was organised and chaired by the Comitati d'Azione per l'Universalità di Roma (CAUR; English: Action Committees for the Universality of Rome).


1934 Montreux Fascist conference, Background
CAUR was a network founded in 1933 by Benito Mussolini's Fascist Regime. CAUR's director was Eugenio Coselschi, and its stated goal was to act as a network for a "Fascist International". Major obstacles arose in the organisation's attempt to identify a "universal fascism" and the criteria that an organisation must fulfil in order to qualify as "fascist". Nevertheless, by April 1934 the network had identified "fascist" movements in 39 countries, including all European countries except Yugoslavia, as well as the United States, Canada, Australia, South Africa, five countries in Asia and six in Latin America. As different groups tried to obtain subsidies all manners of conflicts arose on issues such as racism, anti-Semitism, corporatism, and state structure.


1934 Montreux Fascist conference, Participants
The first world conference of the CAUR convened at Montreux on 16 December.


1934 Montreux Fascist conference, Participants
Participants from fascist organisations in 13 European countries attended, including Ion Moța of Romania's Iron Guard, Vidkun Quisling of Norway's Nasjonal Samling, George S. Mercouris of the Greek National Socialist Party, Ernesto Giménez Caballero of the Spanish Falange movement, Eoin O'Duffy of the Irish Blueshirts, Marcel Bucard of the French Mouvement Franciste, representatives from Lithuania's Tautininkai, the Portuguese Acção Escolar Vanguarda (English: Vanguard School Action) and União Nacional of Salazar, were headed by António Eça de Queiroz (son of the famous writer, and future head of the Emissora Nacional, the National Radio Station of Portugal), as well as delegates from Austria, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Switzerland.


1934 Montreux Fascist conference, Participants
Notable in their absence were any representatives from Nazi Germany. The conference in Montreux occurred only six months after the assassination of the Austrofascist Austrian chancellor Engelbert Dollfuss by Nazi agents and the resulting diplomatic crisis between Italy and Germany. Likewise, Mussolini did not allow any official representative of the Italian Fascist Party to attend the meeting, ostensibly in order to see what the conference could achieve before lending full official support.


1934 Montreux Fascist conference, Participants
José Antonio Primo de Rivera, while allowing members of the Falange to participate, stated that the Falange as an organisation would not be represented, as the CAUR was "not a Fascist movement". Other notable absences included the Austrian Ernst Rudiger von Starhemberg and any representatives from the British Union of Fascists.


1934 Montreux Fascist conference, Proceedings
From the outset, the conference was marred by serious conflicts between the participants. Coselschi, acting as President of the Conference, clashed with Quisling over the importance of Nazi Germany to international fascism. Moța, supported by the Danish and Swiss delegates, likewise created a rift by underlining the centrality of anti-Semitism to fascist movements, a move opposed by Coselschi and O'Duffy. The Romanian Iron Guard stressed the need for race to be an integral component of fascism.


1934 Montreux Fascist conference, Proceedings
On the matter of anti-Semitism, several compromise resolutions were adopted.


1934 Montreux Fascist conference, Proceedings
These declared that "the Jewish question cannot be converted into a universal campaign of hatred against the Jews" while also stating, "Considering that in many places certain groups of Jews are installed in conquered countries, exercising in an open and occult manner an influence injurious to the material and moral interests of the country which harbors them, constituting a sort of state within a state, profiting by all benefits and refusing all duties, considering that they have furnished and are inclined to furnish, elements conducive to international revolution which would be destructive to the idea of patriotism and Christian civilisation, the Conference denounces the nefarious action of these elements and is ready to combat them."


1934 Montreux Fascist conference, Proceedings
The delegates at the conference also unanimously declared their opposition to communist movements and the Third International.


1934 Montreux Fascist conference, Results
A second and final conference was held in Montreux in April 1935. José Antonio Primo de Rivera made a brief appearance at this conference, using the opportunity to express sympathies with the movement while stating that Spain was not ready to participate in any venture of international fascism because his movement was estrictamente nacional (strictly national).


1934 Montreux Fascist conference, Results
The conference was not able to bridge the gulf between those participants who proposed achieving national integration by a corporative socio-economic policy and those who favored an appeal to race. Pretensions to "universal fascism" could not survive this rift, and the movement did not meet its goal of acting as a counterbalance to international communism.


1934 Montreux Fascist conference, Results
The CAUR did not win official endorsement from the Italian Fascist Party or the Spanish Falange. It was unsuccessful either to present a commonly agreed definition as to what "fascism" was or to unite most major fascist parties into one international movement.


1934 Morgan Bears football team
The 1934 Morgan Bears football team was an American football team that represented Morgan College as a member of the Colored Intercollegiate Athletic Association (CIAA) during the 1934 college football season. Led by fourth-year head coach Edward P. Hurt, the Bears compiled an overall record of 5–0–3 with a conference mark of 4–0–3, winning the CIAA title. Morgan shut out all eight of their opponents, scoring 96 points and allowing 0 on the season. After the season, Howard forfeited their tie with Morgan because of an ineligible player.


1934 Moroccan Grand Prix
The 1934 Moroccan Grand Prix (also known as the 1934 Anfa Grand Prix or the 1934 Casablanca Grand Prix) was a Grand Prix that was held on 20 May 1934 at the street circuit in Anfa, a suburb of Casablanca, Morocco. The race, contested over 60 laps of 6.37 km (3.96 mi), was won by Louis Chiron driving an Alfa Romeo Tipo B after starting from second position.


1934 Moroccan Grand Prix, Race report
Soon in the race Chiron took over the lead from Lehoux, who later got into a long fight with Philippe Étancelin for second position. Comotti, Straight and Hamilton were fighting for fourth position. When Lehoux's tyre blew he had to make multiple extra pitstops, which made him fall back in the field. Teammates Straight and Hamilton also struck tyre trouble and at the end of the race Hamilton had to retire with a leaking fuel tank. Lehoux fought back to third position finishing behind Étancelin. Chiron, driving an Alfa Romeo Tipo B, completed the required 60 laps the fastest and took victory.


1934 Muroto typhoon
In September 1934, a violent typhoon caused tremendous devastation in Japan, leaving more than 3,000 people dead in its wake. Dubbed the Muroto typhoon (室戸台風, Muroto Taifū), the system was first identified on September 13 over the western Federated States of Micronesia. Moving generally northwest, it eventually brushed the Ryukyu Islands on September 20. Turning northeast, the typhoon accelerated and struck Shikoku and southern Honshu the following morning. It made landfalls in Muroto, Kaifu, Awaji Island, and Kobe.


1934 Muroto typhoon
A pressure of 911.9 hPa (26.93 inHg) was observed in Muroto, making the typhoon the strongest ever recorded to impact Japan at the time. This value was also the lowest land-based pressure reading in the world on record at the time; however, it was surpassed the following year during the 1935 Labor Day hurricane. After clearing Japan, the now extratropical storm traveled east and weakened. Turning north by September 24, the system deepened and impacted the Aleutian Islands; it was last noted the following day over western Alaska.


1934 Muroto typhoon
Regarded as the "second-greatest catastrophe of modern Japan", the storm left parts of Osaka in ruins. Tens of thousands of structures were damaged or destroyed, leaving approximately 200,000 people homeless. Among the 3,066 people killed were 421 children and teachers who perished when their flimsy schools were destroyed. This ranked it, at the time, as the deadliest typhoon in Japanese history. In addition to the fatalities, 13,184 people were injured. Total damage exceeded $300 million (1934 USD).


1934 Muroto typhoon, Meteorological history
On September 13, 1934, a tropical cyclone developed over the western Caroline Islands. The storm traveled generally northwest, executing a brief cyclonic loop on September 14–15. After a brief stint traveling nearly due north on September 17, the cyclone began recurving to the northeast. It brushed the Ryukyu Islands to the southeast on September 20 as it accelerated northeast. On the morning of September 21, the typhoon struck Shikoku and southern Honshu. According to the Central Meteorological Observatory (now called the Japan Meteorological Agency), maximum sustained winds reached 150 km/h (90 mph), with gusts exceeding 215 km/h (130 mph).


1934 Muroto typhoon, Meteorological history
The typhoon first made landfall over Muroto, Kōchi Prefecture, resulting in it later being dubbed the "Muroto typhoon". A then-world record low barometric pressure for a land station of 911.9 hPa (26.93 inHg) was observed in Muroto. Though surpassed less than a year later during the 1935 Labor Day hurricane in the Florida Keys, it remains the lowest value ever observed in mainland Japan and the third-lowest throughout the country. It briefly emerged over the Kii Channel before striking the Kaifu District in Tokushima Prefecture. The system then crossed the Kii Channel again and traversed Awaji Island.


1934 Muroto typhoon, Meteorological history
After another brief stint over water, the storm made its next landfall directly over Kobe, Hyōgo Prefecture, just 30 km (19 mi) west of Osaka City. A barometric pressure of 954.3 hPa (28.18 inHg) was observed in Osaka. Crossing mainland Japan, the storm briefly emerged over the Sea of Japan before traversing northern Honshu.


1934 Muroto typhoon, Meteorological history
Pronounced frontal features, a characteristic of extratropical cyclones, developed late on September 21, with a cold front extending south toward the Philippines. The system continued on an easterly course and was last noted in the International Best Track Archive on September 22 moving away from Hokkaido. Surface weather analyses depict the system continuing east, crossing the International Date Line (180°) by September 23. During this time, its central pressure rose to roughly 985–990 mbar (hPa; 29.09–29.34 inHg). On September 24, the storm turned north toward the Aleutian Islands of the then Territory of Alaska and deepened. Winds up to Force 10—89 to 102 km/h (55 to 63 mph)—on the Beaufort scale affected parts of the Aleutians and a pressure of 964 mbar (hPa; 28.47 inHg) was observed near . Traversing the Bering Sea, the system was last identifiable on September 25 over western Alaska.


1934 Muroto typhoon, Impact
Called the "second-greatest catastrophe of modern Japan", and the "worst typhoon in a generation", the storm wrought tremendous damage in Shikoku and southern Honshu, with areas in and around Osaka suffering the brunt of its impact. The effects, at the time, were second only to the 1923 Great Kantō earthquake. Throughout Japan, 3,066 people were killed, of which at least 1,665 deaths were in Osaka Prefecture, and 13,184 others were injured. This ranked it as the deadliest typhoon in Japanese history, until Typhoon Vera in 1959 which killed approximately 5,000 people. A total of 34,262 buildings were destroyed, another 40,274 were severely damaged, and 401,157 were flooded or affected. Total damage far exceeded $300 million (1934 USD). Approximately 200,000 people were rendered homeless in Osaka, and at least 250,000 required assistance.


1934 Muroto typhoon, Impact
In Kōchi Prefecture, where the storm first made landfall, powerful wind gusts—measured up to 234 km/h (145 mph)—caused tremendous damage. Torrential rain accompanied the storm. Throughout Kōchi, 1,815 homes were destroyed and 6,064 were damaged or flooded; 81 people died and 399 more sustained injuries. Sixty-three people died in Muroto when the typhoon's storm surge swept away 550 homes.


1934 Muroto typhoon, Impact
The greatest damage, however, took place across eastern Osaka Bay. A maximum tide of 3.1 to 4.2 m (10 to 14 ft) was observed there, the highest ever for the region. Areas up to 8 km (5.0 mi) inland were inundated by the typhoon's storm surge, total of 49.31 km2 (19.04 mi2) of the city was flooded. The city of Osaka was crippled by the typhoon, electricity was completely lost, the water supply network sustained significant damage, and communications were disrupted. Powerful winds devastated the city's poorly built schools, destroying 128 buildings.


1934 Muroto typhoon, Impact
Within them, at least 421 children and teachers were killed, while 1,100 others sustained injury. One teacher, Masuji Ashida, was hailed as a hero for sacrificing himself to save his students by propping up the exit of his collapsing classroom with his own body; his students escaped before he was crushed under the weight of the building. An insane asylum along the city's outskirts was swept away with 60 patients missing. A five-story pagoda (built in 1812) at the Shitennō-ji temple collapsed, killing 3 people and trapping 20 others. The Sotojima hospital for leprosy was destroyed; 260 patients are believed to have drowned after the building collapsed amid rising water and gale-force winds. Near Ōtsu, a passenger train derailed, killing 10 people and injuring 165.


1934 Muroto typhoon, Impact
The city's industrial sector sustained severe losses, exceeding US$90 million. More than 3,000 factories were destroyed and thousands more were damaged. The Japanese Army's munitions program was significantly setback due to destroyed ammunition factories. At least 100 people drowned in the city's harbor where more than 1,600 seagoing craft were grounded, sunk, or otherwise damaged.


1934 Muroto typhoon, Impact
Thirty of the nation's then forty-six prefectures were impacted by the typhoon. Significant damage took place in Aichi, Gifu, Kyoto, Nagano, Nagasaki, Tokushima, Tottori, Wakayama, and Yamanashi prefectures. In Kyoto, at least 209 people were killed and 858 were injured.


1934 Muroto typhoon, Aftermath
Immediately following the typhoon's tremendous impact, the Japanese military was deployed to Osaka before nightfall on September 21 and water was being trucked in. Officials in Osaka Prefecture released an immediate ¥10 million in relief funds. Baron Kischizaemon Sumitomo donated ¥1 million (US$300,000) to relief funds, the largest such private donation in the nation's history at the time. The Cabinet of Japan held a special meeting to discuss emergency operations. Three destroyers from the Kure Naval District, loaded with medical equipment and other essentials, were deployed to assist in relief work. Outbreaks of typhoid fever, dysentery, and scarlet fever plagued survivors in the storm's aftermath.


1934 Muroto typhoon, Aftermath
During an October 5 cabinet meeting, Minister of Education Genji Matsuda recommended schools to be built with steel in light of the large number of children killed. Reconstruction of the affected areas required an estimated 100,000 tons of steel. The National Diet held a special meeting in November to address issues regarding the typhoon's aftermath.


1934 Muroto typhoon, Aftermath
Following the disaster, a marked increase in actions and countermeasures to storm surge events and typhoons were enacted. Throughout Osaka, construction of breakwaters and embankments alleviated flood risks in coastal communities, reducing the risk of life from roughly 10−3 to 10−7 by the time of Typhoon Nancy in 1961. Before the onset of World War II, total anti-flood construction in Osaka spanned 36.68 km (22.79 mi); this included 16.52 km (10.27 mi) along rivers and canals, 11.08 km (6.88 mi) of levees, and 11.08 km (6.88 mi) of breakwaters. These protected the city from surges of 3.5 m (11 ft) above Osaka Port. Several other projects to expand and rebuild the anti-flood system took place in the decades following World War II.


1934 Muroto typhoon, Aftermath
According to a 2010 report by the Central Disaster Prevention Council, if a storm identical to the 1934 Muroto typhoon were to strike in the modern day, it would kill approximately 7,600 people.


1934 NC State Wolfpack football team
The 1934 NC State Wolfpack football team was an American football team that represented North Carolina State University as a member of the Southern Conference (SoCon) during the 1934 college football season. In its first season under head coach Hunk Anderson, the team compiled a 2–6–1 record (1–3–1 against SoCon opponents) and was outscored by a total of 112 to 44.


1934 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans
The consensus 1934 College Basketball All-American team, as determined by aggregating the results of three major All-American teams. To earn "consensus" status, a player must win honors from a majority of the following teams: the Helms Athletic Foundation, Converse and The Literary Digest.


1934 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
The 1934 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships were contested at the Ohio State Natatorium at Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio at the 11th annual NCAA-sanctioned swim meet to determine the team and individual national champions of men's collegiate swimming and diving in the United States.


1934 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
Only individual championships were officially contested during the first thirteen-NCAA sponsored swimming and diving championships. This was the last year of keeping unofficial team standings before the team championship was awarded for the first time the following year.


1934 NCAA Swimming and Diving Championships
Michigan are acknowledged as this year's unofficial team champions, the fifth such title for the Wolverines.


1934 NCAA Track and Field Championships
The 1934 NCAA Track and Field Championships was the 13th NCAA track and field championship meeting. The event was held at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Los Angeles, California in June 1934, with 323 athletes from 89 schools taking part. Stanford Indians, coached by Dink Templeton, won the team championship with 63 points. Dean Cromwell's USC Trojans, winners of the next nine team titles, took a close second, with defending champions LSU Tigers placing third.


1934 NCAA Track and Field Championships
In five events, the results as originally announced were adjusted after the meet as photo finish pictures were examined. According to the original results, Stanford's only individual champion was discus thrower Gordon "Slinger" Dunn, but hurdler Sam Klopstock was also awarded first place after the finish-line camera showed he had won by inches. Additional points finishes across the board, including a second and third place from John Lyman, propelled the Indians to victory. Glenn "Slats" Hardin of LSU and Ralph Metcalfe of Marquette were the only athletes to win two events. Bill Bonthron of Princeton, who won the 1934 James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur sportsman in the United States, provided another of the meeting's highlights in winning the mile run ahead of world record holder Glenn Cunningham.


1934 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Team scoring
1. Stanford - 63 points2. USC - 57 7⁄20 points3. LSU - 43 points4. Indiana - 20 points4. Marquette - 20 points6. Fresno State - 18 points6. Manhattan - 18 points


1934 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
100-yard dash  1. Ralph Metcalfe, Marquette - 9.7 seconds2. Charlie Parsons, USC2. Hunter Russell, Illinois4. Foy Draper, USC5. Jimmy Willson, Stanford6. Sterling Dupree, Auburn


1934 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
120-yard high hurdles1. Sam Klopstock, Stanford - 14.632. Amsden Oliver, Miami (Ohio)3. George Fisher, LSU4. Sam Allen, Oklahoma Baptist5. Ned Bacon, Denison6. Lee Haring, Emporia State


1934 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
220-yard dash 1. Ralph Metcalfe, Marquette - 20.92. Charlie Parsons, USC3. Jimmy Willson, Stanford4. Foy Draper, USC5. Sterling Dupree, Auburn6. Ed Hall, Kansas


1934 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
220-yard low hurdles 1. Glenn Hardin, LSU - 23.16 (hand time 22.7 equal meeting record, unratified world record)2. Amsden Oliver, Miami (Ohio)3. Heye Lambertus, Nebraska4. Vince Reef, Occidental5. Wilbert Randow, Texas A&M6. Ned Bacon, Denison


1934 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
440-yard dash1. Glenn Hardin, LSU - 47.0 (new meeting record)2. Ivan Fuqua, Indiana3. John McCarthy, USC4. Louis Brothers, Rice5. Ed Ablowich, USC6. Al Fitch, USC


1934 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
880-yard run1. Chuck Hornbostel, Indiana - 1:51.92. Jimmy Miller, UCLA3. William Ray, Manhattan4. Elroy Robinson, Fresno State5. Estel Johnson, USC6. Ted O'Neal, LSU


1934 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
One-mile run1. Bill Bonthron, Princeton - 4:08.9 (new meeting record)2. Glenn Cunningham, Kansas3. Gene Venzke, Penn4. Harry Williamson, North Carolina5. Otto Pongrace, Michigan State6. Charles Nimmo, Stanford


1934 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Track events
Two-mile run1. Frank Crowley, Manhattan - 9:22.42. William Zepp, Eastern Michigan3. Ray Sears, Butler4. Robert Wagner, Oregon5. John Sanders, LSU6. Floyd Lochner, Oklahoma


1934 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Field events
Broad jump1. Al Olson, USC - 25 feet, 4 1⁄4 inches2. Bob Clark, California3. Moncure Little, William & Mary3. Floyd Wilson, Fresno State5. George Meagher, Notre Dame6. Douglas Taylor, San Jose State


1934 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Field events
High jump1. Walter Marty, Fresno State - 6 feet, 6 3⁄4 inches1. George Spitz, NYU - 6 feet, 6 3⁄4 inches3. Lloyd Richey, Auburn4. Will Brannan, USC4. Vincent Murphy, Notre Dame4. Howard Spencer, Geneva4. Steve Woodbury, Dartmouth


1934 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Field events
Pole vault1. Jack Rand, San Diego State - 14 feet, 1⁄2 inch (new meeting record)2. Bud Deacon, Stanford3. James Fimple, USC3. Ray Lowry, Eastern Michigan3. Scott Massey, UCLA3. Irving Seely, Illinois3. Charles Van Tress, California


1934 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Field events
Shot put1. Jack Torrance, LSU - 54 feet, 6 9⁄16 inches (new meeting record)2. John Lyman, Stanford3. George Theodoratus, Washington State4. Gordon Dunn, Stanford5. Honk Irwin, Texas A&M6. Hueston Harper, USC


1934 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Field events
Discus throw1. Gordon Dunn, Stanford - 162 feet, 7 inches2. Ken Carpenter, USC3. John Lyman, Stanford4. Honk Irwin, Texas A&M5. Wes Busbee, Indiana6. Chester Cruikshank, Colorado State


1934 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Field events
Javelin throw1. Bob Parke, Oregon - 220 feet, 11 5⁄8 inches (new meeting record)2. John Mottram, Stanford3. Ralston LeGore, North Carolina4. Nathan Blair, LSU5. Horace Odell, Manhattan6. William Reitz, UCLA


1934 NCAA Track and Field Championships, Field events
Hammer throw1. Henry Dreyer, Rhode Island - 169 feet, 8 3⁄8 inches2. Pete Zaremba, NYU3. Donald Favor, Maine4. Chester Cruikshank, Colorado State5. Gantt Miller, West Virginia6. Norman Cahners, Harvard


1934 NCAA Wrestling Championships
The 1934 NCAA Wrestling Championships were the 7th NCAA Wrestling Championships to be held. The University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Michigan hosted the tournament at Yost Fieldhouse.


1934 NCAA Wrestling Championships
Oklahoma A&M took home the team championship with 29 points and three individual champions.


1934 NCAA baseball season
The 1934 NCAA baseball season, play of college baseball in the United States organized by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) began in the spring of 1934. Play largely consisted of regional matchups, some organized by conferences, and ended in June. No national championship event was held until 1947.


1934 NCAA baseball season, Conference winners
This is a partial list of conference champions from the 1934 season.


1934 NFL Championship Game
The 1934 National Football League Championship Game, also known as the Sneakers Game, was the second scheduled National Football League (NFL) championship game. Played at the Polo Grounds in New York City on December 9, it was the first title game for the newly created Ed Thorp Memorial Trophy. With a remarkable fourth quarter, the New York Giants defeated the Chicago Bears 30–13.


1934 NFL Championship Game
The defending champion Bears entered the game undefeated at 13–0, with an 18-game winning streak. The Giants (8–5) won consecutive division titles, but had lost their final regular season game at Philadelphia. The Bears were favored to repeat as champions.


1934 NFL Championship Game
A freezing rain the night before the game froze the Polo Grounds field. After Giants end Ray Flaherty remarked to head coach Steve Owen that sneakers would provide better footing on the frozen playing surface, Owen sent his friend Abe Cohen, a tailor who assisted on the Giants sideline, to Manhattan College to get some sneakers. There, Brother Jasper, the athletic director (and the later namesake of the Manhattan Jaspers) emptied the lockers of the school's basketball team. Cohen arrived in the third quarter with nine pairs of basketball sneakers from the college.


1934 NFL Championship Game
The Bears led 10–3 at the half when the Giants switched to the basketball sneakers. A Chicago field goal was the only score in the third quarter, extending the lead to ten points. Early in the fourth, Giants quarterback Ed Danowski threw a touchdown pass to Ike Frankian to close the score to 13–10. (The pass was initially intercepted at the Bears' 2-yard line, but Frankian then grabbed the ball out of the defender's hands.) On the next New York drive, running back Ken Strong scored on a 42-yard touchdown run. Later an 11-yard run by Strong was turned into another touchdown for the Giants, and they  scored for a final time on Danowski's 9-yard run, a fourth unanswered touchdown. New York outscored the Bears 27–0 in the fourth quarter to win 30–13.


1934 NFL Championship Game
Many of the participants have been interviewed since the game took place, most notably Bronko Nagurski of the Bears and Mel Hein of the Giants. Generally, players from both sides have attributed the Giants' second-half dominance to their selection of footwear. As Nagurski put it later, "We immediately said something was wrong because they suddenly had good footing and we didn't...they just out-smarted us." A mini-documentary of the game, narrated by Pat Summerall, can be seen in the 1987 video "Giants Among Men." NFL Films named the game the #8 bad weather game of all time, and in 2019, it was named the #62 greatest game in NFL history.


1934 NFL Championship Game, Officials
The NFL had only four game officials in 1934; the back judge was added in 1947, the line judge in 1965, and the side judge in 1978.


1934 NFL Championship Game, Players' shares
The projected attendance of 55,000 was not reached, as the week's weather kept it under 36,000. Each player on the winning Giants team received $621 (equivalent to $12,000 in 2020), while the Bears received $414 (equivalent to $8,000 in 2020) each.


1934 NFL season
The 1934 NFL season was the 15th regular season of the National Football League. Before the season, the Portsmouth Spartans moved from Ohio to Detroit, Michigan, and were renamed the Detroit Lions.


1934 NFL season
The Cincinnati Reds lost their first eight games, then were suspended for not paying league dues. The St. Louis Gunners, an independent team, played the last 3 games of the season for the Reds.


1934 NFL season
The Ed Thorp Memorial Trophy was established as the league's award for the NFL champion, and was awarded through 1967. The host team for the NFL Championship Game would now alternate between the two divisions, with the Eastern Division champion hosting in even-numbered years, and the Western champion hosting in odd-numbered years.


1934 NFL season
The season ended with the NFL Championship Game when the New York Giants defeated the Chicago Bears at the Polo Grounds in what has become known as the "Sneakers Game".


1934 NFL season, Final standings
Note: Tie games were not officially counted in the standings until 1972.


1934 NFL season, NFL Championship Game
N.Y. Giants 30, Chi. Bears 13 at Polo Grounds, New York City, December 9, 1934


1934 NSWRFL season
The 1934 New South Wales Rugby Football League premiership was the twenty-seventh season of Sydney’s top-grade rugby league club competition, Australia’s first. Eight teams from across the city contested the premiership during the season which lasted from April until September and culminated in Western Suburbs’ victory over Eastern Suburbs in the premiership final.


1934 NSWRFL season, Season summary
At the height of The Depression, the New South Wales Rugby Football League again banned radio broadcasts of matches, blaming them for a severe drop in crowd numbers.


1934 NSWRFL season, Season summary
In Round 2 the University club began a losing streak which would run until the fourteenth round of the 1936 season, marking the record for the most consecutive losses in premiership history at 42.


1934 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams
27th seasonGround: Trumper Oval, Sports GroundCoach: Arthur HallowayCaptain: Dave Brown


1934 NSWRFL season, Season summary, Teams
27th seasonGround: North Sydney OvalCoach: Herman Peters Captain: Doug Deitz


1934 NSWRFL season, Finals
In the two semi finals, the top two ranked teams Western Suburbs and Eastern Suburbs beat their lower-ranked opponents St. George and South Sydney. The two winners then played in a final in which Western beat Eastern Suburbs.


1934 NSWRFL season, Finals, Premiership Final
After a hurried conference on Saturday, 1 September 1934, the league postponed the final for a week because of heavy rain and adverse ground conditions. It was the first postponement in the competition’s twenty-seven-year history. Eastern Suburbs players Viv Thicknesse and Stan Tancred made a return for the final which was refereed by J Murphy before a crowd of 25,174.


1934 NSWRFL season, Finals, Premiership Final
Western Suburbs captain Frank McMillan won the toss and ran with the wind before Les Mead opened with a penalty goal. Regular stoppages for infringements ensued before Jack Beaton kicked accurately to level the match at 2–2. Western Suburbs Test winger Alan Ridley scored the first try of the match, crashing over on the right wing after powering through the defence. McMillan’s conversion made it 7–2, with the score remaining unchanged at halftime.


1934 NSWRFL season, Finals, Premiership Final
After the break, Thicknesse hit back for Eastern Suburbs and crossed after excellent lead up work by Joe Pearce. Beaton missed the conversion but Dave Brown steered through a penalty from a scrum infringement shortly after and the scores were level at 7–7. Rain began to fall as Western Suburbs gathered momentum. The play shifted to Easts’ line and Vince Sheehan crossed for an unconverted try and Western Suburbs led 10–7. Eastern Suburbs continued to defend grimly before Western Suburbs surged to a comfortable 15–7 lead.


1934 NSWRFL season, Finals, Premiership Final
Vic Hey received a lobbed pass and got the ball to Alan Ridley who scored under the upright for Mead to convert. The Roosters’ chances came in the final stages and Andy Norval crossed for his team’s second try, although the referee appeared to miss a blatant knock-on. Beaton converted but it was all too late, with Western Suburbs claiming their second premiership.


1934 NSWRFL season, Finals, Premiership Final
A great victory by a great team who upset the star-studded Eastern Suburbs, who went on to win the next three titles. Alan Ridley played one of the best games for Western Suburbs along with team-mates Mead, Hey, Brady, Tancred. Current test skipper Frank McMillan (141 games) and hooker Bob Lindfield (138 matches) announced their retirement after the victory and were chaired from the field by team-mates.


1934 NSWRFL season, Finals, Premiership Final
Western Suburbs 15 (Tries: Alan Ridley 2, Vince Sheehan. Goals: Les Mead 2, Frank McMillan)


1934 NSWRFL season, Finals, Premiership Final
Eastern Suburbs 12 (Tries: Andy Norval, Viv Thicknesse. Goals: Jack Beaton 2, Dave Brown)


1934 NYU Violets football team
The 1934 NYU Violets football team was an American football team that represented New York University as an independent during the 1934 college football season. In their first year under head coach Mal Stevens, the team compiled a 3–4–1 record.


1934 Nanga Parbat climbing disaster
The 1934 Nanga Parbat climbing disaster resulted in the loss of 10 lives on Nanga Parbat, the world's ninth-highest mountain, during the 1934 climbing season, including nine climbers who died in what was, at the time, the single deadliest mountaineering accident in history.


1934 Nanga Parbat climbing disaster
In 1934, German climber Willy Merkl led a well financed expedition to Nanga Parbat, in northeastern Pakistan, with the full backing of the new Nazi government. Early in the expedition Alfred Drexel died, probably of high altitude pulmonary edema. The Tyrolean climbers Peter Aschenbrenner and Erwin Schneider reached an estimated height of (7,895 m / 25,900 ft) on July 6, but were forced to return because of worsening weather. On July 7, they and 14 others were trapped by a ferocious storm at 7,480 m (24,540 ft).


1934 Nanga Parbat climbing disaster
During the desperate retreat that followed, three famous German mountaineers, Uli Wieland, Willo Welzenbach and Merkl himself, as well as six Sherpas, died of exhaustion, exposure and altitude sickness, and several more suffered severe frostbite. The last survivor to reach safety, Ang Tsering, did so having spent seven days battling through the storm. It has been said that the disaster, "for sheer protracted agony, has no parallel in climbing annals."


1934 Nanga Parbat climbing disaster, Books
Jonathan Neale wrote a book about the 1934 climbing season on Nanga Parbat called Tigers of the Snow. He interviewed many old Sherpas, including Ang Tsering, the last man off Nanga Parbat alive in 1934. The book attempts to narrate what went wrong on the expedition, set against mountaineering history of the early twentieth century, the background of German politics in the 1930s, and the hardship and passion of life in the Sherpa valleys.


1934 National Challenge Cup
The 1934 National Challenge Cup was the annual open cup held by the United States Football Association now known as the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup.


1934 Navy Midshipmen football team
The 1934 Navy Midshipmen football team represented the United States Naval Academy during the 1934 college football season. In their first season under head coach Tom Hamilton, the Midshipmen compiled a 8–1 record and outscored their opponents by a combined score of 138 to 70.


1934 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team
The 1934 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team was an American football team that represented the University of Nebraska in the Big Six Conference during the 1934 college football season. In its sixth season under head coach Dana X. Bible, the team compiled a 6–3 record (4–1 against conference opponents), finished in second place in the Big Six, and outscored opponents by a total of 106 to 89. The team played its home games at Memorial Stadium in Lincoln, Nebraska.


1934 Nebraska Cornhuskers football team, Before the season
Coach Bible returned for a sixth year with many conference titles to his credit, but suffered the loss of all but one of his starting 1933 players to graduation, and was therefore breaking in a relatively inexperienced squad. Bible's length of tenure at Nebraska had thus far been a clear success, and his length of service now matched the stretch held by Walter C. Booth in his six years as coach from 1900 to 1905, which was at that time the longest in program history.