1926 in sports

Baseball (Negro League)

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.

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

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)

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.

Jack Horner ridden by Willie Watkinson wins the Grand National at Aintree defeating 29 rivals.

Rosabelle Sinclair establishes the United States' first women's lacrosse team at Bryn Mawr School.

January 14 — Oswaldo "Baltazar" da Silva, Brazilian football (soccer) player (d. 1997)
February 4 — Gyula Grosics, Hungarian football goalkeeper
February 4 — Dave Sands, Australian Aborigine boxer (d. 1952)
March 4 — Pascual Nicolás Pérez, Argentine flyweight boxer (d. 1977)
March 25 — László Papp, Hungarian boxer (d. 2003)
March 29 — Mario D'Agata, Italian boxer
May 5 — Víctor Ugarte, Bolivian football (soccer) player (d. 1995)
June 30 — Henk Bouwman, Dutch field hockey player (d. 1995)
July 10 — Kenneth Richmond, British wrestler (d. 2006)
July 12 — Tiberio Mitri, Italian boxer (d. 2001)
October 11 — Dennis Shepherd, South African boxer (d. 2006)

April 19 — Willie Watkinson Grand National Winning jockey, three weeks after his victory in a fall at Bogside, Scotland