{{Short description|Outdoor track and field competition}} {{Use dmy dates|date=July 2024}} {{Use British English|date=July 2024}} {{Infobox Athletics Championships |Name=1874 AAC Championships |Host city=London, England |Dates=30 March 1874 |Stadium=Lillie Bridge Grounds, London |Level= Senior |Type=Outdoor |Events= |Previous=1873 |Next= 1875 |Games= AAC Championships }}
The '''1874 AAC Championships''' was an outdoor track and field competition organised by the Amateur Athletic Club (AAC). The championships were held on 30 March 1874, at the Lillie Bridge Grounds in London.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000174/18740331/024/0007 |title=The Amateur Championship Athletic competitions |work=Morning Post |date=31 March 1874 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=21 July 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000056/18740331/017/0007 |title=AmateurChampionship Sports |work=Freeman's Journal |date=31 March 1874 |via=British Newspaper Archive|url-access=subscription |access-date=21 July 2024}}</ref>
== Summary == *Marshall Brooks set a world record of 1.803 in the high jump. *Edwin Woodburn equalled the world record of 3.23 in the pole jump.
{{clear}} == Results == <ref>{{cite web|url=https://nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=20 July 2024}}</ref> {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:left" |- !width=100|Event !colspan="3" width="380" style="background:gold;|1st !colspan="3" width="380" style="background:silver;|2nd !colspan="3" width="380" style="background:#CD7F32;|3rd |- |100 yards | E. Jenner Davies || Trinity C ||10.5 | John Potter || London AC ||1 ft |Alfred H. Pearson || Notts City F.C. ||inches |- |quarter-mile | George A. Templer || Trinity C ||53¾ |John Potter || London AC ||4 yd | George W. Gower || G.W.R CC ||6 yd |- |half-mile |Edward A. Sandford || |Christ Church C ||2:04.0 |F. W. Todd (Ireland) || Irish Champion AC ||3 yd |Joseph W. Moore||Birmingham AC ||1 yd |- |1 mile |Walter Slade || AAC || 4:43.0 | E. B. Grimmer || Norwich AC ||dnf |only 1 finished || || |- |4 miles |Walter Slade || AAC ||20:52.0 |James E. Warburton || Haslingden AC ||30 yd | Augustus E. Micklefield ||St John's C ||450 yd |- |120yd hurdles | Hugh K. Upcher || St John's C ||16.5 |John H. A. Reay ||London AC ||3 yd |Henry W. Beauchamp ||Corpus Christi C ||1 yd |- |7 miles walk |William J. Morgan || Atalanta RC ||55:26.8 |A. Gilmour ||Trinity Hall ||withdrew |only 1 competitor || || |- |high jump |Marshall Brooks || Brasenose ||1.803 WR | Thomas Davin (Ireland) || Irish Champion AC ||1.778 | J. T. Yellowly Watson || London AC ||1.702 |- |pole jump | Edwin Woodburn || Ulverston CC ||3.23 =WR |Hugh M. Fyffe<br> Robert W. Sabin<br>William Kelsey ||South London Harriers<br>Culworth AC<br>Hull CC ||3.15<br>3.15<br>3.15 | n/a|| || |- |long jump | E. Jenner Davies || Trinity C ||6.83 |Hugh K. Upcher || St John's C ||6.10+ | William Kelsey|| Hull CC || |- |shot put |William F. Powell Moore || AAC ||12.17 |Tom Stone|| Liverpool || 11.96 | Nicholas J. Littleton || St John's C ||11.62 |- |hammer throw |Stephen S. Brown || St John's C ||36.58 | William A. Burgess || Oxford U.A.C ||36.47 |James Paterson || Trinity C ||35.61 |}
== References == {{reflist}}
{{British championships in athletics}}
Athletics Outdoor Category:Sport in the London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham Category:Athletics competitions in England AAC Category:March 1874