1953 In Sports ,
Other Events Of 1954 ,
1955 In Sports and the
List Of 'years In Sports' .
- High School, enrollment 161, defeated Muncie Central High School (enrollment over 1,600) 32-30 to win the Indiana state title. The 1986 movie classic '' Hoosiers '' was very loosely based on the story of this Milan team.
- These changes result in the Grey Cup being an East vs. West competition. Although the Canadian Football League was not technically founded until the late 1950's , 1954 is often referred to as the start of the "modern era" of Canadian professional football. It is also considered to be the year the CFL was founded in substance if not in name.
Men's Golf
Women's Golf
- January 17 — Janet Dykman , American archer
- January 30 — Sergei Klevtsov , Soviet field hockey player
- February 3 — Maurice Marquet , New Zealand field hockey player
- February 9 — Alfonso Zamora , Mexican bantamweight boxer
- February 19 — Sócrates , Brazilian football (soccer) player
- February 22 — Russell Simpson , New Zealand tennis player
- March 8 — Julie Cook , British field hockey goalkeeper
- March 29 — Helen Volk , Zimbabwean field hockey player
- April 3 — Nico Landeweerd , Dutch water polo player
- April 7 — Tony Dorsett , American football star
- April 17 — Riccardo Patrese , Italian racing driver
- April 18 — Mary Geaney , Irish field hockey goalkeeper
- April 29 — Margriet Zegers , Dutch field hockey defender
- May 4 — Hans Van Zeeland , Dutch water polo player and coach
- May 7 — Jane Swinnerton , British field hockey international
- May 9 — Balazs Taroczy , Hungarian tennis player
- May 17 — Daniel Londas , Martinique-born boxer from France
- June 8 — Mudashiru Lawal , Nigerian football (soccer) midfielder (d. 1991 )
- June 24 — Mark Edmondson , Australian tennis player
- June 29 — Susan Huggett , Zimbabwean field hockey player
- July 5 — John Wright , coach of Indian National Cricket Team
- July 26 — Vitas Gerulaitis , American tennis player (d. 1994 )
- August 14 — Mark Fidrych , American baseball player
- August 15 — Farit Zigangirov , Soviet field hockey player
- August 18 — Sue McLeish , New Zealand field hockey player
- August 25 — Pauline Gibbon , British field hockey goalkeeper
- September 18 — Isobel Thomson , New Zealand field hockey player
- September 22 — Paul Kronk , Australian tennis player
- October 1 — Martin Strel , Slovene ultra marathon swimmer
- October 3 — Dennis Eckersley , Baseball Hall of Famer
- November 10 — Robert Colley , New Zealand boxer
- December 21 — Chris Evert , US tennis player
- December 24 — Graham Sligo , New Zealand field hockey player
- December 26 — Susan Butcher , American dog-sled racing champion
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