Much controversy preceded the 1956 Sugar Bowl, where the Pitt Panthers, including African-American player Bobby Grier, were scheduled to meet the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets.

* Bobby Grier ( American football coach ), American football coach and scout

* Bobby Grier ( Pittsburgh Panthers ) ( born 1933 ), American college football player who broke color barrier

His father is Bobby Grier, who is the Associate Director of Pro Personnel for the Houston Texans of the National Football League ( NFL ).

Prior to that, Bobby Grier was a running back coach, director of pro scouting, and vice-president of player personnel for the New England Patriots of the NFL.

( The elder Grier should not be confused with the Bobby Grier who broke the color barrier in the 1956 Sugar Bowl.

Bobby Lowe of Boston was the first to hit four at home and Gil Hodges turned the trick in Brooklyn's Ebbetts Field.

His Elo rating shot from 2540 in 1971 to 2660 in 1973, when he shared second in the USSR Chess Championship, and finished equal first with Viktor Korchnoi in the Leningrad Interzonal Tournament, with the latter success qualifying him for the 1974 Candidates Matches, which would determine the challenger of the reigning world champion, Bobby Fischer.

On December 11, 13 games into his first NFL season as head coach, Bobby Petrino resigned without notice to coach at the University of Arkansas, leaving the beleaguered players only a note in the locker room.

His caps record lasted until 1973 when Bobby Moore overtook him, and Charlton currently lies fourth in the all-time England appearances list behind Moore, David Beckham and Peter Shilton, whose own England career began in the first game after Charlton's had ended.

Cleveland was coming off a series of bad drafts, including in 1954, when the team selected quarterback Bobby Garrett with the first pick.

Banks played well, but with the right back Len Chalmers carrying an injury, was powerless to prevent second half goals from Bobby Smith and Terry Dyson giving Spurs a 2 – 0 win and the first " double " of the 20th century.

Bobby Drake's first girlfriend is Zelda.

Bobby is one of the first students to reach out to Rogue and begins a romantic relationship with her.

His Age of Apocalypse appearance ( referred to as Spikey ), classic costume ( his standard look ), original costume ( his first comic appearances, with his face completely frosted over ), and Bobby Drake ( the look he adopts in the New X-Men series and his subsequent solo series: he appears in his human form, wearing a leather trenchcoat, with only his hands appearing frozen ) are alternate costumes for Iceman.

* 1972 – The first game of the World Chess Championship 1972 between challenger Bobby Fischer and defending champion Boris Spassky starts.

On August 24, 1958, Jan & Arnie played in a live show hosted by Dick Clark that featured Bobby Darin, the Champs, Sheb Wooley, The Blossoms, The Six Teens, Jerry Wallace, Jack Jones, Rod McKuen, and the Ernie Freeman Orchestra in front of nearly 12, 000 fans at the first rock-n-roll show ever held at the Hollywood Bowl.

In 1968, Manchester United became the first English ( and second British ) club to win the European Cup, beating Benfica 4 – 1 in the final with a team that contained three European Footballers of the Year: Bobby Charlton, Denis Law and George Best.

In addition to Chicago blues numbers, the Rolling Stones also covered songs by Chuck Berry and Bobby and Shirley Womack, with the latter's " It's All Over Now ", giving them their first UK number one in 1964.

In addition to Bobby Thomson and Willie Mays, other memorable members of the Giants teams during the 1950s include: Hall of Fame manager Leo Durocher, coach Herman Franks, Hall of Fame outfielder Monte Irvin, outfielder and runnerup for the 1954 NL batting championship ( won by Willie Mays ) Don Mueller, Hall of Fame knuckleball relief pitcher Hoyt Wilhelm, starting pitchers Larry Jansen, Sal Maglie, Jim Hearn, Marv Grissom, Dave Koslo, Don Liddle, Max Lanier, Rubén Gómez, and Johnny Antonelli, catcher Wes Westrum, catchers Ray Katt and Sal Yvars, shortstop Alvin Dark, third baseman Hank Thompson, first baseman Whitey Lockman, second basemen Davey Williams and Eddie Stanky, outfielder, pitcher Clint Hartung, Hall of Fame second baseman Red Schoendienst and utility players: Bill Rigney, Daryl Spencer, Bobby Hofman, and Dusty Rhodes among others.

According to Bradley and Padres first base coach Bobby Meacham, Winters used a profanity towards Bradley.

In his second season, Gretzky won the Art Ross ( the first of seven consecutive ) with a then-record 164 points, breaking both Bobby Orr's record for assists in a season ( 102 ) and Phil Esposito's record for points in a season ( 152 ).

** The New York Islanders win their first Stanley Cup, from a goal by Bobby Nystrom in overtime of game six of the Stanley Cup playoffs's final round.

* May 10 – The Boston Bruins win their first Stanley Cup since 1941 when Bobby Orr scores a goal 40 seconds into overtime for a 4-3 victory which completed a four-game sweep of the St. Louis Blues.

* March 1 – Bobby Sands, a Provisional Irish Republican Army member, begins a hunger strike for political status in Long Kesh prison ( he dies May 5, the first of 10 men ).

Sport: In the first half of the twentieth century, before Major League Baseball was racially integrated, dark-skinned and dark-complexion players were nicknamed Nig ; examples are: Johnny Beazley ( 1941 – 49 ), Joe Berry ( 1921 – 22 ), Bobby Bragan ( 1940 – 48 ), Nig Clarke ( 1905 – 20 ), Nig Cuppy ( 1892 – 1901 ), Nig Fuller ( 1902 ), Johnny Grabowski ( 1923 – 31 ), Nig Lipscomb ( 1937 ), Charlie Niebergall ( 1921 – 24 ), Nig Perrine ( 1907 ), and Frank Smith ( 1904 – 15 ).

Other hits recorded by the band included " See You Later, Alligator " in which Haley's frantic delivery contrasted with the Louisiana languor of the original by Bobby Charles, " Don't Knock the Rock ", " Rock-a-Beatin ' Boogie ", " Rudy's Rock " ( the first instrumental hit of the rock and roll era ) and " Skinny Minnie ".

Spassky travelled to Argentina, where he shared first place with Bobby Fischer, two points ahead of Bronstein, at Mar del Plata 1960 on 13½ / 15, defeating Fischer in their first career meeting.

Spassky then finished ahead of Petrosian and a super-class field at Santa Monica 1966 ( the Piatigorsky Cup ), with 11½ / 18, half a point ahead of Bobby Fischer, as he overcame the American grandmaster's challenge after Fischer had scored 3½ / 9 in the first cycle of the event.

The most notable was Bobby Marshall, who was the first African-American player at the University of Minnesota, having played there from 1903 until 1906.

Like Black Panther Party activist Bobby Seale, one of the African-American defendants is bound and gagged.

* Bobby Marshall – One of the first two African-American to play in the NFL, member of the College Football Hall of Fame

Along with Lawrence, the film features an ensemble cast of African-American actors that include Lynn Whitfield, Regina King, Bobby Brown and Della Reese.

Robinson was the first African-American child actor to star in a Disney movie as ' Bobby ' in Deacon Street Deer.

* Fritz Pollard and Bobby Marshall are the first two African-American players in the National Football League ( NFL ).

In 1999, he became the first African-American to run a Busch Series race, when he ran at Watkins Glen in the # 8 Dura Lube Chevrolet Monte Carlo owned by Bobby Hillin, Jr ..

In September, 2007 Rep. Bobby Rush of Illinois initiated a Congressional hearing on African-American images in the media, “ From Imus to Industry: The Business of Stereotypes and Degrading Images .”

* 1975 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default.

In 1976 he was hired by Barbra Streisand and her producer-boyfriend Jon Peters to play Bobby Ritchie, road manager to Kris Kristofferson's character in the remake film A Star is Born.

* 1956 – Donald Byrne Vs. Bobby Fischer play a famous chess game called The Game of the Century.

Modern tournament play became popular in American casinos after the World Series of Poker began, in 1970. Notable champions from these early WSOP tournaments include Johnny Moss, Amarillo Slim, Bobby Baldwin, Doyle Brunson, and Puggy Pearson.

Gretzky became accustomed to the position after watching and studying Bobby Clarke play in that zone.

* April 3 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title.

The Devil and Billy Markham, published in Playboy in 1979, was later adapted into a solo one-act play that debuted on a double bill with Mamet's Bobby Gould in Hell ( 1989 ) with Dr. Hook vocalist Dennis Locorriere narrating.

The supporting cast is likewise composed of jazz musicians ( from a slightly later period ) such as Herbie Hancock, Freddie Hubbard, Bobby Hutcherson, John McLaughlin, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Tony Williams, Billy Higgins, Pierre Michelot, Eric Le Lann, and others who play the music live throughout the film.

The last scene has everyone dancing as soon as Bobby, with the last spoken line in the play, asks " So how about that dance?

A total of fourteen children were hired to play various roles in the play, including Billy Halop ( Tommy ), Bobby Jordan ( Angel ), Huntz Hall ( Dippy ), Charles Duncan ( Spit ), Bernard Punsly ( Milty ), Gabriel Dell ( T. B.

He went on to play 57 times and score 44 goals, five fewer than Bobby Charlton but at a much higher rate.

Canada's general manager, Bobby Clarke, called the hit a " cheap shot " and publicly echoed the sentiment that Suter wanted to eliminate Kariya from Olympic play.

This prompted a line in the lyrics to Terry Cashman's 1981 hit song " Talkin ' Baseball ", in which the line in part reads " And Bobby Bonds can play for everyone ".

With Bruce Garfield and Bobby Colomby no longer with Capitol, The Tubes were dropped just as they were going on a national tour in support of the album — a tour that would leave the band a half million dollars in debt, forcing them to play low-budget gigs for a year to pay off their debts.

A bizarre double play occurred in a nationally televised game between the New York Yankees and Chicago White Sox on August 2, 1985 when both Bobby Meacham and Dale Berra were tagged out at home by Carlton Fisk on a deep drive single to left-center by Rickey Henderson.

While playing with the New York Yankees in 1982, Bobby Murcer, Graig Nettles, and Roy Smalley got caught in a bizarre 2-5-3-1 triple play.

Ochs also imagines that Lyndon Johnson would " play God " and Ochs would " play Bobby Dylan.

Bobby Jordan was a talented toddler and by the time he was six years old, he could sing, tap dance and play the saxophone.

When Kevin Keegan was about to play against the great Bobby Moore for the first time, Shankly told him that Moore had been out at a night club and was hung over.

* In an episode of King of the Hill where Bobby Hill attends a high school, he is overjoyed to find that the play is being held, as it was banned from his middle school.

According to Reuben Fine, the Evans poses a challenge for Black since the usual defenses ( play ... d6 and / or give back the gambit pawn ) are more difficult to pull off than with other gambits ( Interestingly, Fine was beaten by this gambit in a friendly game against Bobby Fischer, in just 17 moves: Fischer-Fine 1963 1-0.

Bobby's mother Helen tells Bobby of the evils of football and forbids him to play.