AAU (Amateur Athletic Union of USA) Outdoor Championship locations
NAAA (National Association of Amateur Athletics) Track and Field Championship locations 1879 to 1888: (Link) (Mar 30, 1890 Buffalo Sunday Morning)
1890: Jan 1, 1890: NAAA to be “merged” into the AAU. (Dec 30, 1889 Brooklyn Citizen)
AAU Outdoor Championship Locations (1888 to 1923):
1888: Sept 19, 1888: Track and Field Competition in Detroit, MI. This was the First AAU National Outdoor Championship competition. *
*=(External Link) (Aug 1, 1889 New York Times) (Aug 2, 1889 Brooklyn Citizen) (Aug 21, 1888 Detroit Free Press) (Aug 26, 1888 Sunday Leader, Wilkes-Barre) (Aug 27, 1888 Democrat and Chronicle, Rochester) (Sept 1, 1888 Times Union, Brooklyn) (Sept 16, 1888 Detroit Free Pres) (Sept 16, 1888 Chicago Tribune) (Sept 20, 1888 Gazette, Montreal) ( (Sept 20, 1888 New-York Tribune) (Sept 20, 1888 Gazette, Montreal) (Sept 30, 1888 Times, Philadelphia) (Oct 4, & Oct 6 & Oct 14, 1888 Sun, New York) (Oct 7 & Oct 8, 1888 Buffalo Morning Express) (Oct 15, 1888 Gazette, Montreal) (Dec 15 & 30, 1988 St Louis Post-Dispatch)
1889: Sept 14, 1889 Second Annual AAU T&F National Outdoor Championship competition was held at Travers Island, NY. (Sept 15, 1889 Brooklyn Citizen) (Aug 1, 1889 New York Times) (Aug 2 & Sept 15 & Sept 16, 1889 Brooklyn Citizen) (Sept 5, 1889 New York Times)
1890: Oct 11, 1890 Third Annual AAU T&F National Outdoor Championship competition was held at Washington, DC (Brooklyn Daily Eagle Oct 8 & Oct 11, 1890) (New York Times Oct 11, 1890) (Oct 12, 1890 Brooklyn Citizen)
1891: Oct 3, 1891 at St Louis, MO (Oct 4 & Oct 11, 1891 St Louis Post-Dispatch) (Oct 5, 1891 Daily Topics, Topeka)
1892: Oct 1, 1892 at Manhattan Field, New York, Fifth Annual. (Sept 18 & Oct 2, 1892 St Louis Post-Dispatch)
1893: Sept 16, 1893 at Chicago, IL (Sept 17, 1893 St Louis Globe-Democrat) (Sept 18, 1893 The Gazette, Montreal, Quebec newspaper).
1894: Sept 15, 1894 at Travers Island, NY (Sept 16, 1894 Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
1895: Sept 14, 1895 at Manhattan field, New York (Sept 15, 1895 Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
1896: Sept 12, 1896 at Manhattan Field, NY: (Sept 13, 1896 Buffalo Morning Express)
1897: Aug 28, 1897 at Manhattan Field, NY: (Aug 29, 1897 New York Times)
1898: June 23, 1898 at Chicago, IL (June 24, 1898 Baltimore Sun)
1899: Aug 26, 1899 at Riverside Recreation Club’s athletic field in Newtown, MA (Aug 27, 1899 Sunday News, Wilkes-Barre)
1900: Sept 15, 1900 at Columbia Field in New York. Annual Championship Games. 1900 included junior and senior competition (Sept 16, 1900 New York Times)
1901: June 15, 1901 at Pan-American grounds, Buffalo, NY (June 16, 1901 Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
1902: Sept 12, 1902 at Travers Island, NY (Sept 14, 1902 Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
1903: Sept 11, 1903 at Milwaukee, WI (Sept 12, 1903 Indianapolis Journal)
1904: June 4, 1904 at St Louis, MO (June 5, 1904 Kansas City Star)
1905: Aug 5, 1905 at Portland, Oregon (Aug 6, 1905 Indianapolis Star)
1906: Sept 8, 1906 at Travers Island, NY (Sept 9, 1906 Chicago Tribune)
1907: Sept 7, 1907 at Jamestown, VA (Sept 8, 1907 Washington Herald, DC)
1908: Sept 19, 1908 at Travers Island, NY (Mile: Sept 24, 1908 Boston Globe) (Sept 20, 1908 Sun, New York)
1909: Aug 15, 1909 at Seattle, WA (Aug 16, 1909 Fall Rivers Globe, Mass.)
1910: Oct 15, 1910 at New Orleans, LA (Oct 16, 1910 New-York Tribune)
1911: July 1, 1911 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, PA (July 2. 1911 Washington Post, DC)
1912: Sept 21, 1912: at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh, PA (Sept 22, 1912 Evening Star, Washington, DC)
1913: July 5, 1913: at Grant Park field, Chicago, IL (July 6, 1913 Chicago Tribune) (1914 Chicago Daily News Almanac and Year)
Side Note: July 5, 1913 in New York: A fire in the office of James E Sullivan destroyed some of the AAU athletic record files (July 6, 1913 Chicago Tribune)
1914: Sept 12, 1914 at Baltimore, MD (Sept 13, 1914 Houston Post as reported by the Associated Press Report)
1915: Aug 8, 1915 at Panama-Pacific Exposition Stadium in San Francisco, CA (Aug 9, 1915 Star-Phoenix, Canada) (Aug 9, 1915 Sacramento Bee)
1915: Aug 10-11, 1915 Decathlon (Aug 9, 1915 San Francisco Examiner)
1916: Sept 9, 1916 at Newark, NJ (Sept 11, 1916 Ithaca Journal, NY)
1917: Sept 1, 1917 at St Louis, MO (Sept 2, 1917 Sun, New York)
1918: Sept 21, 1918 at Great Lakes, IL (Sept 23, 1918 at Great Lakes Naval Station: All Around Championship) (Sept 22, 1918 Los Angeles Evening Express)
1919: Sept 13, 1919 at Philadelphia, PA (Sept 14, 1919 Standard Union, Brooklyn)
1920: July 17, 1920 AAU Championship and “Final Olympic Tryouts” at Harvard Stadium, Cambridge, MA (June 13 & July 18, 1920 New York Times)
1921: July 3-4, 1921 at Paddock Field, Pasadena, Calif. (July 1, 1921 Long Beach Telegram and Long Beach Daily Press) (July 5, 1921 Oregon Daily Journal)
(July 5, 1921 Sacramento Bee) And on July 5, 1921 the “Relays” and “All-Around Championship” were held (July 6, 1921 New-York Tribune)
1922: Sept 9, 1922 at Newark, NJ (Sept 10, 1922 Standard Union, Brooklyn)
On Sept 11, 1922 the “Relays” and “All-Around Championship” were held (Sept 11, 1922 Sacramento Star)
1923 – men: Sept 1, 1923 at Stagg Field, Chicago, IL (Sept 2, 1923 Nebraska State Journal per the Associated Press)
On Sept 3, 1923 the “Relays” were held (Sept 3, 1923 Lincoln Journal Star, Nebraska)
1923 – women: Sept 29, 1923 at Weequahic Park in Newark, NJ. First AAU Women’s National Championship. (Sept 27, 1923 The News, Paterson, NJ) (Sept 30, 1923 Daily News, New York)
National A.A.U. Open Championship
1876 to 1978 Amateur Open Outdoor Championship locations:
1876 to 1878: Amateur Championship of America locations, but not under NAAA (Link)
1879 to 1888: NAAA Open Track and Field Championship locations (Link)
1888 to 1923: AAU Open Track and Field Outdoor Championship Locations: (Link)
1888 to 1978: refer to the AAU Open Track and Field Outdoor Championship Locations: (External Link)
220 Yard Hurdles at the Open Outdoor National Championship: (Link)
Winners from Past Open Championships: (External Link: USATF Outdoor Champions)
120 Yard / 110 Meter Sprint Hurdle (High Hurdle) Open National Champions 1876 to Present: (External Link)