1911 — Carlisle Indian School of Carlisle, Pa., led by Jim Thorpe, beats nationally ranked Harvard 18-15 before 25,000 in Cambridge, Mass. Thorpe scores all the points for Carlisle, a touchdown, extra point and four field goals.
1939 — Texas Tech and Centenary (La.) play to a 0-0 tie in a torrential downpour in Shreveport, La. There are an NCAA-record 77 punts in the game (39 by Tech, 38 by Centenary).
1978 — Eddie Lee Ivery rushes for 356 yards to lead Georgia Tech to a 42-21 victory over Air Force.
1981 — The Minnesota North Stars score eight goals in the second period of a 15-2 victory over the Winnipeg Jets.
1995 — Eddie George rushes for a school-record 314 yards on 36 carries and scores three TDs, powering Ohio State past Illinois 41-3.
1995 — Hakeem Olajuwon scores 21 points to become the 21st NBA player to compile 20,000 career points as the Houston Rockets beat the Minnesota Timberwolves 119-97.
2000 — Lennox Lewis wins a unanimous 12-round decision over David Tua to retain his WBC and IBF heavyweight titles.
2001 — In his sixth career start, Shaun Alexander has 266 yards rushing on 35 carries and an 88-yard touchdown run as Seattle beats AFC West-leading Oakland 34-27. It’s the fourth-best rushing game in NFL history.
2002 — The Oakland Raiders, behind record-setting performances, beat the Denver Broncos 34-10. Rich Gannon completes 21 straight passes and Jerry Rice becomes the first player to score 200 career touchdowns.
2004 — Earl Boykins, at 5-foot-5, becomes the smallest player in NBA history to reach 30 points, scoring a career-high 32 in Denver’s 117-109 victory over Detroit.
2006 — Michael Redd scores 57 points to break Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s franchise record of 55, but Matt Harpring makes a layup with 1.8 seconds left to give the Utah Jazz a 113-111 win over Milwaukee.
2006 — Wladimir Klitschko stuns Calvin Brock with a sharp left, then finished him off with a thunderous right late in the seventh round to successfully defend his IBF heavyweight title in New York.
2006 — Wake Forest beats Florida State 30-0 to become the first team to shutout the Seminoles at Doak Campbell Stadium in Bobby Bowden’s 31 seasons as coach.
2007 — Brett Favre joins Dan Marino as the only quarterbacks to throw for 60,000 yards in a career during the second quarter of Green Bay’s 34-0 win over Minnesota.
2007 — Jacksonville’s Fred Taylor becomes the 21st running back in NFL history to reach 10,000 yards rushing with a 15-yard carry in the first quarter of the Jaguars’ 28-13 win over Tennessee.
2008 — Jockey Julien Leparoux has a record-tying day at Churchill Downs. The 25-year-old Frenchman ties Hall of Famer Pat Day’s track record with seven wins. Day set the record on June 20, 1984.
2008 — Jordan Staal scores a hat trick in the third period and sets up Ruslan Fedotenko’s goal with 1:11 left in overtime, leading the Pittsburgh Penguins to a 7-6 win over the Detroit Red Wings.
2011 — Faulkner defeats Union (Ky.) 95-89 in triple overtime to set an NAIA football record. The 184 combined points, smashes the previous mark of 141 set in 1994 when Southwestern (Kan.) defeated Sterling (Kan.) 79-62.
2012 — Antron Brown becomes the first black champion in any NHRA pro series when he wins the Top Fuel title at the season-ending event. Brown suffers minor burns to his hands when his engine pops in an opening-round loss during eliminations, then waits to celebrate his victory until the final, when teammate Tony Schumacher loses in a photo finish to Brandon Bernstein.
2012 — Atlanta’s Tony Gonzalez catches the 100th TD pass of his career, a 2-yarder from Matt Ryan in the Falcons 31-27 loss at New Orleans. He adds another score on a 6-yard pass and becomes the first tight end with 100 TD receptions. Ryan is 34 of 52 for 411 yards and three touchdowns.
2013 — Novak Djokovic off his season by defending his ATP World Tour Finals title with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Rafael Nadal. Djokovic’s 22 consecutive wins to finish 2013 matches top-ranked Nadal’s best stretch of the year.
2014 — Dirk Nowitzki becomes the highest-scoring NBA player born outside the United States and Dallas rallies from 24 points down to beat the Sacramento 106-98. Nowitzki, who passes Hakeem Olajuwon for ninth place on the all-time scoring list, finishes with 23 for 26,953 points, seven more than Olajuwon.
