Recap of the year 1916 in sports.

Football (Australian Rules)

• Victorian Football League - Fitzroy wins the 20th VFL Premiership (12.13 (85) d Carlton 8.8 (56))

Baseball

• The Winnipeg Maroons win the Northern League Championship.
• 1916 World Series
• 1916 in baseball

Ice Hockey

• Montreal Canadiens defeat the Portland Rosebuds 3 games to 2 to win their 1st Stanley Cup.

Events

Births

• May 20 — Trebisonda Valla, Italian track and field athlete

Deaths

• April 21 - Georges Boillot, Grand Prix motor racing driver
• August 23 - John Robinson, British field hockey player (b. 1885)