Oct. 31

1948 — Sammy Baugh of Washington passes for 446 yards and four touchdowns and Dan Sandifer has four interceptions including two for touchdowns as the Redskins beat the Boston Yanks 56-21.

1964 — Kelso, running in what is billed as his final race in New York, wins his fifth consecutive Jockey Club Gold Cup, surpassing Round Table as the all-time money-winning thoroughbred. Kelso runs the 2-mile distance in 3:19 1/5, breaking the world record he set as a 3-year-old, four years earlier, by 1/5 of a second.

1981 — Scott Campbell of Purdue passes for 516 yards, but loses as Art Schlichter passes for 336 yards and three touchdowns to lead Ohio State to a 45-33 victory.

1981 — Florida State freshman Greg Allen rushes for 322 yards in a 56-31 victory over Western Carolina.

1987 — Eric Dickerson, the NFL's single-season rushing champion, signs a three-year contract with the Indianapolis Colts to complete a three-way trade that nets the Los Angeles Rams two running backs and six top draft choices over the next two years. The third part of the deal sends linebacker Cornelius Bennett to the Buffalo Bills in exchange for three of the draft picks that went to the Rams.

1987 — Jockey Chris Antley becomes the first rider to win nine races in a single day. He has four winners in six mounts at Aqueduct and five winners from eight tries during The Meadowlands' evening program.

1993 — Emmitt Smith powers for a team-record 237 yards, including a 62-yard touchdown run, as the Dallas Cowboys beat the Philadelphia Eagles 23-10. His total tied the sixth highest in NFL history.

1998 — Tee Martin of Tennessee, sets NCAA records with 23 straight completions and 24 over two games in the No. 3 Volunteers' 49-14 victory over South Carolina. Martin is 23-for-24, with a record completion percentage of 95.8, for 315 yards and four touchdowns.

1999 — Tim Couch completes a desperation 56-yard touchdown pass to Kevin Johnson with no time on the clock to give the expansion Cleveland Browns their first victory, a 21-16 win over New Orleans.

2003 — Trainer Bobby Frankel sets a North American single-season earnings record when Golden Rahy wins the $48,000 feature race at Santa Anita's Oak Tree meeting. The winner's share raises Frankel's earnings for the year to $17,854,877. The previous record of $17,842,358 was set by D. Wayne Lukas in 1988.

2004 — Peyton Manning of Indianapolis passes for 472 yards and five touchdowns, the fifth five-TD performance of his career, in a 45-35 loss to Kansas City. The Chiefs finish with 590 yards, the Colts with 505, for the third-highest single-game yardage total in NFL history.

2004 — The New England Patriots lose for the first time in more than a year, falling to the Pittsburgh Steelers 34-20. The Patriots had won 21 straight games, including the playoffs, and a league-record 18 in a row in the regular season.

2006 — Miami's season-opening 108-66 loss to Chicago is the worst loss in NBA history for a defending champion on opening night. The previous low was the Lakers' 132-117 defeat by Golden State on Oct. 29, 1982.

2008 — The North Carolina Tar Heels are No. 1 in The Associated Press' preseason Top 25, the first unanimous No. 1 since the preseason poll began in 1981-82.