The first professional black baseball club, the Cuban Giants, was organized in 1885.

The club has been nicknamed " The Saints " since its inception in 1885 due to its history as a church football team, founded as St Mary's Church of England Young Men's Association ( or St Mary's Y. M. A ) and has since played in red and white.

In 2001 the move from The Dell to the new Friends Provident St Mary's Stadium was a homecoming for Southampton F. C., because of the new stadium's proximity to St Mary's, the church where the club was founded on 21 November 1885 by members of the St Mary's Church of England Young Men's Association.

The club was established in 1885, although it played its first official game in 1912.

Lyme Regis Football club was formed in 1885 and celebrated its 125th anniversary in 2010.

In August 1885, the club turned professional.

The club moved to Burslem in 1884, changing its name to Burslem Port Vale in the process, they played at Moorland Road before moving into the Athletic Ground in 1885.

It was created and named in honour of Charles Brownlow, a former Geelong Football Club footballer ( 1880 – 1891 ) and club secretary ( 1885 – 1923 ), and VFL president ( 1918 – 19 ), who had died in January 1924 after an extended illness.

Hemel Hempstead Town football club dates back to 1885 and now play in the Southern Football League Premier Division.

The first Pocklington rugby club Pocklington FC was formed in 1885.

The club was founded in 1885 and the home ground is St. Mary's Field.

Although it is officially recorded as being formed in 1884, the club did not play its first game until February 1885.

The cricket club was founded in 1885 with permission from the Lord of the Manor to use the Common and continues to thrive today with the First XI playing in the Premier Division of the Morrant Chiltern League.

Downley has several local football teams ranging from junior side Downley Dynamos all the way up to the oldest club in the village, Downley Albion Football Club formed in 1885.

Queen's Park are also the only Scottish football club to have played in the FA Cup Final, achieving this feat in both 1884 and 1885.

* Charles Campbell, former midfielder who won 8 Scottish Cup medals and captained the club in the 1884 and 1885 FA Cup finals.

Other sport clubs based in Clydebank are: the Clydesdale Harriers, founded in 1885 as Scotland's first amateur open athletics club ; and the Lomond Roads Cycling Club.

The formation of a rugby club in Donaghadee in 1885 came during a period of rapid growth for the game throughout Ireland.

The club was formed in 1885 by Aiden Arrowsmith following a meeting at the White Horse Hotel, between the Bury Wesleyans and Bury Unitarians Football Clubs.

On 3 September 1887, Arbroath were drawn in the same competition against Orion football club – the team that should have been invited to the Scottish Cup match in 1885 instead of the Orion cricket club.

Cowdenbeath, who are the oldest surviving football club in Fife, lost in the inaugural Fife Cup final in 1883 but won the Cup for the first time in 1885.

The history of teams known as the Buffalo Bisons dates to a major league club, the Buffalo Bisons of the National League, who played from 1879 to 1885.

The club name was also changed to Kingston Rovers as they entered the Times Cup in the 1885 / 86 season.

But in 1885, when it had published 8 volumes and gotten only halfways ( A – K ), the publisher turned to the government for extra funding ; encyclopedias had become national monuments.

After The Mikado opened in 1885, Gilbert, as usual, promptly turned his thoughts to finding a subject for a next opera.

When his involvement with hypnosis waned as a result of failure to establish professional acceptance, he turned to the study of development spurred on by the birth of his two daughters, Marguerite and Armande ( born in 1885 and 1887, respectively ), calling Armande a subjectivist and Marguerite an objectivist, and developing the concepts of introspection and externospection in an anticipation of Carl Jung's psychological types. Ellenberger, p. 702-3 In the 21 year period following his shift in career interests, Binet " published more than 200 books, articles, and reviews in what now would be called experimental, developmental, educational, social, and differential psychology " ( Siegler, 1992 ).

Two Aegean vases were found at Sidon in 1885, and many fragments of Aegean and especially Cypriote pottery have been turned up during recent excavations of sites in Philistia by the Palestine Fund.

Grossmith turned to acting in 1885, which he pursued until 1917.

Towards the end of the century, the growth of industry had turned the village of Homerton into a manufacturing centre, lowering the quality of life of the students and leading to seven deaths between 1878 and 1885 from tuberculosis, smallpox and typhoid.

The area remained rural until 1885, when developers turned into houses, and the area is still developed primarily with single family houses.

) By 1885 the north-south streets gained their current alphabetical designations ( A Street through V Street, although V was turned into Virginia Street.

He turned down the appointment of Ambassador to Russia after William H. Hunt's death and made an unsuccessful attempt for the Republican nomination for the Senate in 1885.

After a few years of whaling, the station was turned into a herring processing plant, going out of business in 1885.

Konrad Wallenrod has twice been turned into an opera: as I Lituani ( The Lithuanians ), by Italian composer Amilcare Ponchielli ( 1874 ); and as Konrad Wallenrod, by Polish composer Władysław Żeleński ( 1885 ).

* 1885 – Arbroath 36 – 0 Bon Accord, a world record scoreline in professional football.

In 1885 the Cuban Giants formed the first black professional baseball team.

The first black professional baseball team was formed in 1885 when the Babylon Black Panthers, formed by waiters and porters from the Argyle Hotel in Babylon, New York were spotted by a white businessman from Trenton, New Jersey, Walter S. Cook.

Nashville's professional baseball history dates back to 1885, beginning with the Nashville Americans.

The 1885 – 86 season was the birth of the legal professional footballer, and Blackburn Rovers spent £ 615 on player wages for the season.

Its decline from the top echelon of football began with the introduction of professionalism in July 1885, with the amateurs of Sheffield failing to compete with professional teams, losing heavily that year to Aston Villa, Nottingham Forest and Notts County.

Universal conscription was introduced in 1879, and under the premiership of Charilaos Trikoupis, in 1882 – 1885 major steps were undertaken to improve the training and education of the officer corps: a French military mission was called to Greece, new schools were founded and Greek officers were sent abroad for studies, and efforts were made to make officers on active service refrain from participating in politics and focus on their professional duties.

Over 13 professional seasons he played for the Providence Grays ( 1881 – 1885 ), St. Louis Maroons ( 1886 ), Indianapolis Hoosiers ( 1888 – 1889 ), New York Giants ( 1890 – 1891 ), Cleveland Spiders ( 1891 ), Philadelphia Phillies ( 1891 ), and Louisville Colonels ( 1893 – 1894 ).

In 1885, Tener, who was six-foot-four ( 1. 93 meters ), decided to try his hand at professional baseball.

* Tom Lyons ( 1885 – 1938 ), professional footballer

Ward was occupied with various professional duties at the Naval Torpedo Station in Newport, Rhode Island, and the New York Navy Yard through 1885.

She finally retired from professional life in 1885, and died on the 9 October 1906 in Rome.

In 1885 and 1886, he was employed as a professional at Banbury Cricket Club.

1885: The world's first professional football league is founded at a meeting in Aston under the auspices of William McGregor, a director of Aston Villa.

Thomas Joseph Smith ( September 27, 1885 in Ottawa, Ontario-August 1, 1966 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward, who played from 1905 until 1920 for 16 teams in his career.

Established in 1885, the USC College of Medicine became the region ’ s first medical school and the second professional school founded at USC.

Samuel Russell Crawford ( November 7, 1885 – December 19, 1971 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey forward who played for the Quebec Bulldogs of the National Hockey Association ( NHA ), Ottawa Senators and Toronto Arenas of the National Hockey League ( NHL ) and Saskatoon Crescents, Calgary Tigers and Vancouver Maroons of the Western Canada Hockey League ( WCHL ).

Hamilton Livingstone " Billy " Gilmour ( March 21, 1885 – March 13, 1959 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey player.

Frederick Hugh " Old Eagle Eyes " Lehman ( October 27, 1885 – April 12, 1961 ) was a Canadian professional ice hockey goaltender.

In 1883 he headed the first Ukrainian professional theater and in 1885 founded a new troupe with young actors.

Officers appointed from 1867 to 1885 were trained in Germany and France, and from 1885 to 1905 at Cooper's Hill, London, a noted professional colleges of forestry.