This Day in Sports History: February 28

Unforgettable Games and Remarkable Records

• 1844: In the sixth Grand National, John Crickmere won aboard 5/1 co-favourite Discount.
• 1906: In the Stanley Cup, the Ottawa HC beat Queen's University (Kingston ON), 12-7 and got a 2-0 sweep of the challenge series.
• 1925: The Toronto Maple Leafs won their ninth game in a row and it was the longest winning streak in their history.
• 1929: The Chicago Blackhawks lose a league-record 15th straight game at home.
• 1936: Karl Schafer of Austria followed up on his Winter Olympics victory with his seventh consecutive men's figure skating World Championship title in Paris, France.
• 1936: Olympic champions Ernst Baier and Maxi Herber of Germany win their fourth consecutive pairs figure skating gold medal at the World Championships in Paris, France.
• 1957: Jockey Johnny Longden got his 5,000th career win.
• 1960: Home team United States wins its first Olympic ice hockey gold medal at Squaw Valley. The USA beat Czechoslovakia 9-4.
• 1960: VII Winter Olympic Games close in Squaw Valley, California.
• 1966: Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale begin a joint holdout against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
• 1967: Wilt Chamberlain sinks a record 35th consecutive field goal.
• 1969: The Men's Figure Skating Championship was won by Tim Wood.
• 1971: Jack Nicklaus won the PGA Championship by two strokes.
• 1981: Calvin Murphy of the Houston Rockets, sets a record with 78 consecutive free throws.
• 1986: Peter Uberroth suspended seven baseball players for one year, after they admitted in Curtis Strong's trial in September, that they used drugs.
• 1988: Yvonne van Gennip skated to a world record time of 7:14.13 in the ladies 5k.
• 1988: XV Winter Olympic Games finished in Calgary, Canada.
• 1988: Pat Verbeek becomes the first New Jersey Devil to score four goals in an NHL game.
• 1989: 10-time All-Star second baseman and manager Red Schoendienst and umpire Al Barlick are elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame.
• 1991: The New York Yankees Don Mattingly is named the tenth team captain.
• 1998: Vancouver Canucks Mark Messier is the fourth NHLer to get 1,600 points.
• 2010: XXI Winter Olympic Games came to a close in Vancouver, Canada.
• 2020: Court of Arbitration for Sport bans Chinese triple Olympic gold medallist Sun Yang from swimming for eight years for breaking anti-doping rules.