High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1950 National Football League championship game was the 18th NFL title game. The game was played on December 24, 1950 in Cleveland, Ohio`s Municipal Stadium.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1950 Monaco Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on May 21, 1950 at Monaco. This race was the second round of 1950 World Drivers` Championship. The race, contested over 100 laps at an overall distance of 318.1 km (197.1 mi) was won by Juan Manuel Fangio for the Alfa Romeo team after starting from pole position. Alberto Ascari finished 2nd for Ferrari and Louis Chiron finished 3rd for Maserati.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1950 NBA Playoffs was the postseason tournament of the National Basketball Association`s 1949-1950 season. The tournament concluded with the Central Division champion Minneapolis Lakers defeating the Eastern Division champion Syracuse Nationals, four games to two in the NBA Finals. 1950 was the first year of the NBA.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1950 Nations motorcycle Grand Prix was the sixth and final round of the 1950 Grand Prix motorcycle racing season. It took place on September 10, 1950 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1950 24 Hours of Le Mans was the 18th Grand Prix of Endurance, and took place on June 24 and 25, 1950. 44-year old Frenchman Louis Rosier and his son Jean-Louis won the race, Louis spent 23 hours and 15 minutes driving his privately entered Talbot.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1950 Chicago White Sox season was the team`s 50th season in the major leagues, and its 51st season overall. They finished with a record 60-94, good enough for sixth place in the American League, 38 games behind the first place New York Yankees.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1950 FIBA World Championship (also called the 1st World Basketball Championship – 1950) was an international basketball tournament held by the International Basketball Federation in Buenos Aires, Argentina, from October 22 to November 3, 1950. Ten nations participated in the inaugural tournament. All competition was held at the Luna Park, Buenos Aires. Argentina claimed the gold medal, by beating the United States 64–50.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1950 All England Championships was a badminton tournament held at the Empress Hall, Earls Court, London, England from 1–4 March 1950.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1950 New York Yankees season was the 48th season for the team in New York and its 50th overall as a franchise. The team finished with a record of 98-56, winning their 17th pennant, finishing 3 games ahead of the Detroit Tigers. In the World Series, they defeated the Philadelphia Phillies in 4 games. New York was managed by Casey Stengel. The Yankees played at Yankee Stadium.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1950 Brooklyn Dodgers struggled for much of the season, but still wound up pushing the Philadelphia Phillies to the last day of the season before falling two games short. Following the season Branch Rickey was replaced as majority owner/team president by Walter O`Malley, who promptly fired manager Burt Shotton and replaced him with Chuck Dressen. Buzzie Bavasi was also hired as the team`s first independent General Manager.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1950 Swiss Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race held on 4 June 1950 at Bremgarten. It was the fourth round of the 1950 World Drivers` Championship.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1950 Philadelphia Phillies won the National League pennant by two games over the Brooklyn Dodgers. Nicknamed the "Whiz Kids" because of the youth of their roster, they went on to lose the World Series to the New York Yankees in four straight games.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Doris Hart defeated Patricia Todd 6–4, 4–6, 6–2 in the final to win the Women`s Singles tennis title at the 1950 French Championships.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1950 All-American Girls Professional Baseball League season marked the eight season of the circuit. The teams Fort Wayne Daisies, Grand Rapids Chicks, Kenosha Comets, Muskegon Lassies, Peoria Redwings, Racine Belles, Rockford Peaches and South Bend Blue Sox competed through a 112 game schedule.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1950 Pittsburgh Steelers season was the franchise`s 18th season in the National Football League (NFL). It was the team`s third season under head coach John Michelosen who had led the team to a combined 10–13–1 record over the previous two years.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1950 World Series was the 47th World Series between the American and National Leagues for the championship of Major League Baseball. The Philadelphia Phillies as 1950 champions of the National League and the New York Yankees, as 1950 American League champions, competed to win a best-of-seven game series.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1950 Philadelphia Eagles season was their 18th in the league. The team failed to improve on their previous output of 11–1, winning only six games. The team failed to qualify for the playoffs for the first time in four seasons.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 17th Ice Hockey World Championships and 28th European Hockey Championships were held from 13 to 22 March 1950 in London, England. In a format similar to the 1949 championships, in the initial round, the nine teams participating were divided into three groups with three teams each. In the second round, the top two teams in each group advanced to the medal pool (for positions 1 through 6) with the remaining three teams advancing to the consolation pool for places 7 through 9. Canada won its 13th World Championship and Switzerland won its fourth European Championship. Both teams benefited from the absence of the defending champion, Czechoslovakia.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1950 NASCAR Grand National season was the second season of professional stock car racing in the United States. Beginning at the Daytona Beach Road Course on February 5, 1950, the season included 19 races. The season concluded at Occoneechee Speedway on October 29. Julian Buesink won the Owners` Championship, while Bill Rexford won the Drivers` Championship with a 26th finish at the final race of the season.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Arthur Larsen defeated Herbie Flam 6–3, 4–6, 5–7, 6–4, 6–3 in the final to win the Men`s Singles tennis title at the 1950 U.S. National Championships.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1950 Maryland Terrapins football team represented the University of Maryland in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) college football in its 30th season as a member of the Southern Conference.
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The 1950 Detroit Tigers had a record of 95-59 (.617), the seventh-best winning percentage in the Tigers` 107-year history. After a tight back-and-forth pennant race, they finished in second place, three games behind a Yankees team that swept the Phillies in the 1950 World Series.
