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New Zealand track and field athlete [222] Simone Schaller: 1912–2016: 104: American track and field athlete [157] Art Schallock: 1924– 100: American baseball player [223] Ambrose Schindler: 1917–2018: 101: American football player [224] Johan Chr. Schønheyder: 1915–2015: 100: Norwegian sports official [225] Mien Schopman-Klaver: 1911 ...
He scored a double century for Surrey against a touring Australian Imperial Forces cricket team and centuries in each of the three Gentlemen v Players matches—the only player ever to do so in one season. [154] [155] His rescheduled benefit match raised £1,670 (£91,750 in 2021 terms), [156] money he used to open a sports shop in London. The ...
In the sport of cricket, a batsman is said to have scored a century when they reach a score of 100 or more runs in an innings without being dismissed. In first-class cricket, the highest form of the game below international level, a total of 25 players have achieved the feat on a hundred or more occasions.
Athlete [11] Whang-od: F: February 17, 1917: 107 years, 306 days: Filipino: Mambabatok or tattoo artist [12] Song Ping: M: April 24, 1917: 107 years, 239 days: Chinese: Communist revolutionary and politician [13] Frank Chuman: M: April 29, 1917: 107 years, 234 days: Japanese-American: Civil rights attorney and author [14] Tadeusz Lutak M ...
Jesse Owens won four gold medals to become the most successful athlete of any sport in the entire Olympics — a record that would stand until 1984 when another African-American track-and-field ...
SportsCentury is an ESPN biography television program that reviews the people and events that defined sports in North America throughout the 20th and 21st centuries. Using stock footage, on-camera interviews, and photographs of their athletic lives, who grew up.
ESPN set out to rank the greatest athlete of the 21st century, a daunting task with figures like LeBron James, Tom Brady, Serena Williams and Usain Bolt all worthy of the top spot.
George Ernest Tyldesley (5 February 1889 – 5 May 1962) was an English cricketer.The younger brother of Johnny Tyldesley and the leading batsman for Lancashire.He remains Lancashire's most prolific run-getter of all time, and is one of only a few batsmen to have scored 100 centuries in the first-class game.