1926 in sports

1926 in sports describes the year's events in world sport.

Centuries:	19th century · 20th century · 21st century
Decades:	1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s
Years:	1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929

American Football

Frankford Yellow Jackets win the National Football League championship with a league record of 14–1–1.

First Division – Huddersfield Town win the 1925–26 title; it is the first time a club has won the League title three times in a row.
FA Cup – Bolton Wanderers beat Manchester City 1–0.

Victorian Football League
- Melbourne wins the 30th VFL Premiership (Melbourne 17.17 (119) d Collingwood 9.8 (62))
- Brownlow Medal awarded to Ivor Warne–Smith (Melbourne)

Rube Foster, founder of the Negro National League (NNL) and owner and manager of the Chicago American Giants, suffers a nervous breakdown and has to be confined to an asylum. His protege Dave Malarcher takes over as manager and leads the team to the NNL pennant.
The Chicago American Giants (NNL) defeat the Bacharach Giants of Atlantic City, New Jersey (ECL), 5 games to 3, in the Negro League World Series.
Mule Suttles of the St. Louis Stars hits a Negro League record 27 home runs. His .498 batting average and 21 triples are also records.

May 31 – India, New Zealand and West Indies are elected as Full Members of the Imperial Cricket Conference thus increasing the number of Test cricket playing nations to six.

June 22-25 – British Open – Bobby Jones
July 8-10 – U.S. Open – Bobby Jones becomes the first golfer to win the U.S. Open and British Open titles in the same year.
September 25 – PGA Championship – Walter Hagen
British Amateur – Jess Sweetser
U.S. Amateur – George Von Elm

May 15 – Bubbling Over wins the Kentucky Derby
Jack Horner ridden by Willie Watkinson wins the Grand National at Aintree defeating 29 rivals.
April 19 – Willie Watkinson Grand National Winning jockey, three weeks after his victory in a fall at Bogside, Scotland