In Sports
- Duane Thomas led the Dallas Cowboys in carries (175) and rushing (793 yards) in 1971
- Former NFL running back Emmitt Smith's175 touchdowns ranks him second to Jerry Rice's 207
- Lou Gehrig had 175 RBIs in 1927
- Jimmie Foxx had 175 RBIs in 1938
- The Sears Craftsman 175 was a NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race held at Chicago Motor Speedway in 2000 & 2001
- A flying disc used in Ultimate weighs 175 grams
- Professional golfer Tom Kite spent 175 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings between 1989 and 1994
- Professional golfer David Toms spent over 175 weeks in the top-10 of the Official World Golf Rankings between 2001 and 2006
- Top One Day International cricket innings have seen batsmen score 175 runs
- Kapil Dev scored 175 not out against Zimbabwe in the 1983 Cricket World Cup, when India was 9/4 (when he came in to bat) and 17/5 to finally take the score to 266
- Herschelle Gibbs scored 175 against Australia when South Africa chased 434 runs (the highest ODI score for about three hours), ending up with a then record 438/9
- Sachin Tendulkar scored 175 for India against Australia at Hyderabad in the fifth ODI of the 2009/10 series, although his team lost the match.
- Recently, Virendar Sehwag scored 175 against Sri Lanka in the first match of 2011 Cricket World Cup
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Famous quotes containing the word sports:
“In the end, I think you really only get as far as you’re allowed to get.”
—Gayle Gardner, U.S. sports reporter. As quoted in Sports Illustrated, p. 87 (June 17, 1991)
“There be some sports are painful, and their labor
Delight in them sets off. Some kinds of baseness
Are nobly undergone, and most poor matters
Point to rich ends.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)