The town is the home of Hawick Rugby Football Club and a senior football team, Hawick Royal Albert, who currently play in the East of Scotland Football League.

Albert was also the lead play-by-play voice of the Westwood One radio network's NFL coverage for several years, calling Monday Night Football as well as numerous playoff games and every Super Bowl beginning 2002.

* Brandon Albert, Offensive Guard for the Kansas City Chiefs of the National Football League, resident

* 4 Frankie Albert, 82, National Football League star.

John Albert Elway, Jr. ( born June 28, 1960 ) is a former American football quarterback and currently is the executive vice president of football operations for the Denver Broncos of the National Football League ( NFL ).

Several amateur VAFA clubs also use the park for their home grounds including the Collegians Football Club ( Harry Trott Oval ), Powerhouse Football Club ( Ross Gregory Oval ) and Old Melburnians ( Junction Oval ) are based in the St Kilda section of Albert Park.

It was once home to the South Melbourne Swans team, which played in the Victorian Football League ( VFL / AFL ), which played out of the Lake Oval ( now Bob Jane Stadium ) in nearby Albert Park, before relocating to Sydney in 1982 in a radical move, which eventually spawned the national Australian Football League.

and Royal Albert F. C .. Royal Albert were once a full member of the Scottish Football League but now ply their trade in the lower reaches of the Central Junior divisions.

** Albert Park Football Club

Football is also a popular sport in the area with local teams including Shankill United, Albert Foundry, who play on the West Circular Road, Lower Shankill, who share the Hammer ground with United and Woodvale who won the Junior Cup in 2011.

In 1876 Oldham Football Club was founded in a meeting at the Prince Albert Hotel, Union Street West attended by Chairman of the Watch Committee, William Chadwick, Chief Constable Charles Hodgkinson, mill owner Fred Wild, eminent local Quaker and Lord to be Alfred Emmott and three brothers of the Fletcher family.

Royal Albert Football Club are a Scottish football club, based in the town of Larkhall, South Lanarkshire.

* William Ayache, Michel Bibard, Michel Bensoussan, Dominique Bijotat, François Brisson, Patrick Cubaynes, Patrice Garande, Philippe Jeannol, Guy Lacombe, Jean-Claude Lemoult, Jean-Philippe Rohr, Albert Rust, Didier Sénac, Jean-Christophe Thouvenel, José Touré, Daniel Xuereb, and Jean-Louis Zanon — Football ( soccer ), Men's Team Competition

Albert Lucas ( September 1, 1978 – April 10, 2005 ) was an American football player in the National Football League and Arena Football League who died during a game while playing for the Los Angeles Avengers.

* Santiago Cañizares, Albert Ferrer, Mikel Lasa, Roberto Solozábal, Juan Manuel López, David Villabona, José Amavisca, Luis Enrique, Josep Guardiola, Abelardo Fernández, Javier Manjarín, Francisco Veza, Antonio Jiménez Sistachs, Gabriel Vidal, Francisco Soler, Miguel Hernández, Rafael Berges, Antonio Pinilla, Kiko Narváez, and Alfonso Pérez Muñoz — Football ( soccer ), Men's Team Competition

* Albert Guðmundsson ( Football )

Swinton became Champions of the Rugby Football League Championship in seasons 1962 – 63 and 1963 – 64, during a decade that saw the club enjoy the services of star players such as John Stopford, Alan Buckley, Ken Gowers, Dave Robinson, Billy " Daz " Davies, Bill Holliday and Albert Blan.

Liverpool's centre-forward Albert Stubbins netted five times in the Football League's 6 – 3 victory.

* Frankie Albert – 3-time All-American QB at Stanford, member College Football Hall of Fame

Thomas is one of only three first basemen in history to win consecutive Most Valuable Player awards in the major leagues ( Hall-of-Famer Jimmie Foxx, 1932 – 1933, and former St. Louis Cardinal Albert Pujols, 2008 – 2009, are the others ).

Many songs became personally identified with him, including " The Floral Dance " ( Katie Moss ), " The Kerry Dance " ( Molloy ), " The Bandolero " ( Stuart ), " The Cobbler's Song " ( from Chu Chin Chow ), " In a Monastery Garden " and " In a Persian Market " ( Albert Ketèlbey ), " The Lute Player " ( Allitsen ), " The Old Brigade ", and " On the Road to Mandalay " ( Speaks and Hedgcock versions ).

He and future Cardinal Albert Pujols are also the only players in baseball history to win Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player awards unanimously.

* Albert Naughton, former Great Britain Rugby League Player

In his book Civilization And Ethics Albert Schweitzer faces the moral problems which arise when moral law is recognized in business life, for example.

In seeking for such meaning and purpose, Albert Schweitzer seized upon the concept of the `` sacredness of life ''.

The defeat and death of Adolf of Nassau at the hands of Albert of Habsburg also worked to the disadvantage of the English, for all the efforts to revive the anti-French coalition came to nothing when Philip made an alliance with the new king of the Romans.

While fifty years before, Albert Goodwill Spalding, secretary of the Chicago Ball Club of the National League, could write earnestly to the manager of the Buffalo club and request a guarantee of one hundred dollars for a baseball game in August, in this Golden Era a game at the Yankee Stadium might bring in nearly a hundred thousand dollars at the gate.

Albert John Luthuli, awarded a Nobel prize for his South African integration struggles, has to get permission to fly to collect his honor.

In addition, Mr. and Mrs. Allan Goodman are controllers, Mrs. Paul Stone is treasurer and Mrs. Albert Quell is in charge of admittance for the dancing at 9 P.m..

Dr. Albert Schweitzer, world-famous theologian and medical missionary, has endorsed an Easter March for Disarmament which begins tomorrow in Sunnyvale.

Afterward, Tennessee's Democratic Senator Albert Gore summed it up for newsmen.

Poirot has been portrayed on radio, on screen, for films and television, by various actors, including John Moffatt, Albert Finney, Sir Peter Ustinov, Sir Ian Holm, Tony Randall, Alfred Molina and David Suchet.

He received the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize for his philosophy of " Reverence for Life ", expressed in many ways, but most famously in founding and sustaining the Albert Schweitzer Hospital in Lambaréné, now in Gabon, west central Africa ( then French Equatorial Africa ).

Many see Calvinism as growing in acceptance, and some prominent Reformed Baptists, such as Albert Mohler and Mark Dever, have been pushing for the Southern Baptist Convention to adopt a more Calvinistic orientation.

Albert's personal qualities won for him the cognomen of the Bear, " not from his looks or qualities, for he was a tall handsome man, but from the cognisance on his shield, an able man, had a quick eye as well as a strong hand, and could pick what way was straightest among crooked things, was the shining figure and the great man of the North in his day, got much in the North and kept it, got Brandenburg for one there, a conspicuous country ever since ," says Carlyle, who called Albert " a restless, much-managing, wide-warring man.

Because Albert was a member of the Brandenburg-Ansbach branch of the House of Hohenzollern, it had been hoped that his election as Grand Master would reverse the decline of the Teutonic Knights since 1410 ; Duke Frederick of Saxony of the House of Wettin had been elected for the same reason.

After some delay Sigismund assented to the offer, with the provision that Prussia should be treated as a Polish fiefdom ; and after this arrangement had been confirmed by a treaty concluded at Kraków, Albert pledged a personal oath to Sigismund I and was invested with the duchy for himself and his heirs on 10 February 1525.

Albert also paid for the printing of the Astronomical " Prutenic Tables " compiled by Erasmus Reinhold and the first maps of Prussia by Caspar Hennenberger.

Albert is therefore often seen as the father of the Prussian nation, and even as indirectly responsible for the unification of Germany.

Farther north the western depression, known as the Albertine Rift is occupied for more than half its length by water, forming the Great Lakes of Tanganyika, Kivu, Lake Edward and Lake Albert, the first-named over 400 miles ( 600 km ) long and the longest freshwater lake in the world.

* 1943 – Bicycle Day – Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann deliberately takes LSD for the first time.

A thorough historical and philosophical study of ahimsa was instrumental in the shaping of Albert Schweitzer's principle of " reverence for life ".

As the great grandson of the Polish king Casimir IV Jagiellon, and as a Duke in Prussia who was fluent in Polish, Albert Frederick was seriously considered for a time as a possible candidate for the Polish throne.

An English-language version, simply titled Kristina, was staged in concert at Carnegie Hall in New York City for two nights in September 2009, yielding a live recording, and at the Royal Albert Hall for one night in April 2010.