{"id":11569,"date":"2015-10-11T08:05:22","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T15:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/today-in-sports-history-for-oct-11\/"},"modified":"2015-10-11T08:05:22","modified_gmt":"2015-10-11T15:05:22","slug":"today-in-sports-history-for-oct-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/sports\/today-in-sports-history-for-oct-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Today in Sports History for Oct. 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

1890 \u2014 The first 100-yard dash under 10 seconds is run by John Owens at 9.8 in an AAU track and field meet in Washington.<\/p>\n

1902 \u2014 Laurie Auchterlonie beats Stewart Gardner with a 307-total to win the U.S. Open golf title.<\/p>\n

1971 \u2014 The United States beats Romania three matches to two to win the Davis Cup.<\/p>\n

1981 \u2014 Tommy Kramer passes for 444 yards and four touchdowns, and the Minnesota Vikings edge the San Diego Chargers 33-31.<\/p>\n

1991 \u2014 Chip Beck shoots the second sub-60 round in PGA Tour history with a 59 in the Las Vegas Invitational. Beck cards a 29-30, 13 under, to match Al Geiberger\u2019s second round of the 1977 Memphis Classic.<\/p>\n

1992 \u2014 Dave Krieg becomes the 15th quarterback in history with 200 touchdown passes, throwing three in the Kansas City Chiefs\u2019 24-17 win over the Philadelphia Eagles.<\/p>\n

1998 \u2014 San Francisco\u2019s Steve Young becomes the 20th player in NFL history to throw for 30,000 yards in a 31-0 rout of New Orleans.<\/p>\n

2003 \u2014 Buffalo is the third NHL team since 1967-68 to be shut out in each of its first two games after a 6-0 defeat to the New York Islanders.<\/p>\n

2009 \u2014 Miles Austin catches 10 passes for a franchise-record 250 yards and scores the winning TD in OT in Dallas\u2019 26-20 win over Kansas City.<\/p>\n

2009 \u2014 Roddy White sets a team record with 210 yards receiving on eight catches and scores two TDs in Atlanta\u2019s 45-10 win over San Francisco.<\/p>\n

2009 \u2014 Kurt Warner passes for 301 yards in Arizona\u2019s 28-21 win over Houston. It\u2019s the 50th 300-yard game for Warner in 113 games, making him the fastest to reach 50 in NFL history. Dan Marino, who took 176 games to reach the mark, was the fastest.<\/p>\n

2010 \u2014 Minnesota\u2019s Brett Favre becomes the first NFL player to throw 500 touchdown passes and for 70,000 yards. However, with Favre trying to rally his team, Dwight Lowery returns an interception 26 yards for a touchdown with 1:30 left as the New York Jets beat the Vikings 29-20.<\/p>\n

2011 \u2014 The U.S. women roll to their third title at the world gymnastics championships in Tokyo, finishing way ahead of Russia, last year\u2019s champion.<\/p>\n

2012 \u2014 Meghan Stasi wins her fourth U.S. Women\u2019s Mid-Amateur title to match the tournament record, routing Liz Waynick 6 and 5. The 34-year-old Stasi, who also won in 2006, 2007 and 2010, ties the victory record set by Ellen Port in the event limited to players 25 and older.<\/p>\n

2014 \u2014 Baylor\u2019s Bryce Petty throws for 510 yards and six TDs, including a tying 25-yarder to Corey Coleman with 4:42 left in the No. 9 Bears\u2019 61-58 win over No. 9 TCU. Chris Callahan kicks a 28-yard field goal as time expired and Baylor scores 24 points in the final 11 minutes to beat the Horned Frogs in the highest-scoring game between two teams in the AP top 10.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1890 \u2014 The first 100-yard dash under 10 seconds is run by John Owens at 9.8 in an AAU track and field meet in Washington. 1902 \u2014 Laurie Auchterlonie beats Stewart Gardner with a 307-total to win the U.S. Open golf title. 1971 \u2014 The United States beats Romania three matches to two to win […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":6,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-11569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11569"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=11569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}