Bruinooge defeated Alcock by 111 votes on election day, in what most political observers described as a significant upset.

Jackson later reveals that the opposing captain was Charles Alcock, which pinpoints the likely origin of the anecdote to a game on 16 November 1872, described as ‘ a friendly, but most vicious game of football ’ by The Graphic newspaper.

Alcock himself was one of the earliest soccer players to be described in contemporary reports as showing teamwork between players, for example in the 1871 England versus Scotland international:

Contemporaries described Cambridge as being the first " combination " team in which each player was allotted an area of the field and played as part of a team in a game that was based upon passing " In a discussion by CW Alcock on the history of a " definite scheme of attack " and " elaborate combination " in early football playing styles ( including references to " Northern " teams, including Queens Park ), Alcock states ( in 1891 ): " The perfection of the system which is in vogue at the present time however is in a very great measure the creation of the last few years.

Mordred was associated with Camlann even at that early date, but as Leslie Alcock points out, this brief entry gives no information as to whether he killed or was killed by Arthur, or even if he was fighting against him ; the reader assumes this in the light of later tradition.

He went to the local grammar school and was afterwards apprenticed to Watson Alcock, the principal surgeon of the town serving him as an assistant-surgeon.

Upon landing in Paris after his own record breaking flight in 1927, Charles Lindbergh told the crowd welcoming him that " Alcock and Brown showed me the way!

He was now established as one of Britain's biggest stars and Korda announced plans to feature him in two films based on true stories, one about the Transatlantic flight of Alcock and Brown in 1919 co-starring Denholm Elliot, and the other Clifton James, the double for Field Marshall Montgomery.

He was awarded an MBE, and the asteroid 3174 Alcock is named after him.

In England, Di Canio is infamous for an incident on the pitch in September 1998, when he pushed referee Paul Alcock to the ground after being sent off while playing for Sheffield Wednesday against Arsenal at Hillsborough, which resulted in an extended ban of 11 matches and him being fined £ 10, 000.

In 1893 Wood-Mason went home and Alcock agreed to act for him during his absence.

Sir George King who was the chairman of the Trustees supported him, however after his retirement, Alcock was given little support.

These experiences caused Alcock to quit and he returned home in 1906 writing to the Government " telling him what an impossible post the Superintendentship of the Museum was and begging him to get it improved for the sake of the Science of Zoology and of my successors.

John Alcock, who, following in his father's footsteps, became Managing Director of Hunslet in 1958, recalled his father telling him circa 1920, when he was still a schoolboy, that his main endeavour for the company would be in the application of the internal combustion engine to railway locomotion.

Rochester returns home to his deathbed, where he dies aged thirty-three with Elizabeth, his mother, a priest summoned to " bring God to him " as she did not want Rochester to die as an atheist, and Alcock.

James E. Alcock, Professor of Psychology at York University stated that few of parapsychology's experimental results have prompted interdisciplinary research with more mainstream sciences such as physics or biology, and that parapsychology remains an isolated science to such an extent that its very legitimacy is questionable, and as a whole is not justified in being labeled " scientific ".

He was named John Rutherford Alcock, but dropped the John very early.

Alcock as ".. always cool, very strong on his legs, and combining plenty of strength with great accuracy ; kicks splendidly and with judgement ; seldom makes a mistake ", also " can kick the ball in any position, and passes it admirably to his forwards "..

But it may not be generally well known that Mr Alcock is a very leading supporter of what is called the " association game "... devotees of the " association " rules will find no foemen worthy of their steel in Scotland .".

In a discussion on the history of a " definite scheme of attack " and " elaborate combination " in football playing style, Alcock noted ( in 1891 ): " The perfection of the system which is in vogue at the present time however is in a very great measure the creation of the last few years.

* Alcock, Leslie ; Stenvenson, S. J .; & Musson, C. R. ( 1995 ).

* Pudney, John ( 1955 ) Six Great Aviators – A V Roe ; Alcock & Brown ; Lindbergh ; Kingsford-Smith ; Saint-Exupery ; Neville Duke ( Hamish Hamilton )

The crash also resulted in the deaths of team manager Ray Brimble, mechanics Tony Alcock and Terry Richards, up-and-coming driver Tony Brise and designer Andy Smallman ; all from the Embassy Hill team.

The mating system of one species, C. pallida, has been particularly well-researched by the behavioral ecologist John Alcock ; the entomologist Adolpho Ducke also studied this genus.

He also achieved 2nd place in: a strong mini-tournament in London 1872 ( behind Steinitz but ahead of Zukertort ), George Alcock MacDonnell and De Vere ; shared 2nd place at Hamburg 1885 ( with Siegbert Tarrasch, James Mason, Berthold Englisch and Max Weiss ; behind Isidor Gunsberg ; ahead of George Henry Mackenzie and five others ); shared 2nd place at Frankfurt 1887 ( with Weiss ; behind Mackenzie ; ahead of Curt von Bardeleben, Tarrasch and several others ).

During the 1980s Britannia Airways operated a Boeing 737-204 / Adv airliner ( construction number 21693 / 541 ; registration G-BFVA ) named “ Sir John Alcock ”

* Alcock, Leslie & Alcock, Elizabeth A., 1992: ' Reconnaissance excavations on Early Historic fortifications and other royal sites in Scotland, 1974-84: 5: A, Excavations & other fieldwork at Forteviot, Perthshire, 1981 ; B, Excavations at Urquhart Castle, Inverness-shire, 1983 ; C, Excavations at Dunnottar, Kincardineshire, 1984 ', Proc Soc Antiq Scot, 122 ( 1992 ), 215-287.

* A naturalist in Indian seas ; or, Four years with the Royal Indian marine survey ship " Investigator ,", Alfred Alcock, Marine Survey of India.

In Alcock, claims for damages for psychiatric illness were brought by fifteen relatives of the victims of the tragedy ; some of them had been present at the match — but not in the area where the disaster occurred — and others had seen it on television or heard it on the radio.

In Ireland, the origins of medical social workers go back to Dr. Ella Webb, who, in 1918, established a dispensary for sick children in the Adelaide Hospital in Dublin, and to Winifred Alcock, who trained as an Almoner and worked with Dr. Webb in her dispensary.

In early 2005, Alcock publicly criticized his government's position against the legalization of marijuana, saying, " If we actually wanted to break the back of organized crime, we would be better off to control it.

A month after Alcock and Brown's achievement, British airship R34 made the first double-crossing of the Atlantic, carrying 31 people ( including a stowaway ); twenty-nine of this crew, plus two flight engineers and a different American observer, then flew back to Europe.

Alcock also said that being the government's point man for the sponsorship scandal did not help his electoral prospects, though he ultimately defended his government's actions.

Leslie Alcock has raised a tentative possibility of the Agitius to whom the gemitus is directed actually being Aegidius – though he was never consul.

The family originally spelled their name " Alcock ", later changed to " Alcocke " then " Alcox ".

Frontman and songwriter Phil Lynott and producer John Alcock decided to employ session musicians to add more commercial elements to some of the tracks to try to produce a hit single, and Tim Hinkley was brought in to add keyboard parts to " Running Back ".

From a journal written in the 19th century, a Colonel Alcock who passed the island wrote " Sentinel is raised a few feet and continuous with the corals surrounding it ".

File: J Alcock. jpg | Hungry Hushes: Graffiti " J. Alcock 1828 ".

Alcock appeared to be particularly concerned about the number of players in Scottish football teams at the time, adding: " More than eleven we do not care to play as it is with greater numbers it is our opinion the game becomes less scientific and more a trial of charging and brute force ... Charles W Alcock, Hon Sec of Football Association and Captain of English Eleven ".

His name is Praisegod Piepsam, and he is rather fully described as to his clothing and physiognomy in a way which relates him to a sinister type in the author's repertory -- he is a forerunner of those enigmatic strangers in `` Death In Venice '', for example, who represent some combination of cadaver, exotic, and psychopomp.

In the same way he coupled Molesworth and Wharton in a letter to Archbishop King, and he had earlier described him as `` the worst of them '' in some `` Observations '' on the Irish Privy Council submitted to Oxford.

Edward Rawson, secretary of the colony of Massachusetts Bay, described him as `` a man whose spirit was stark drunk with blasphemies and insolence, a corrupter of the truth, a disturber of the peace wherever he comes ''.

To prevent the manager from deliberately controlling himself only during the sessions, they were rather lengthy ( about twenty minutes ), the situations were imperfectly described to the manager so that he would not know what to expect, new antagonists were brought on the scene unexpectedly, and the antagonists were instructed to deliberately behave in such ways as to upset the manager and get him to operate in a manner for which he had been previously criticized.

it had been latent, unspecified, semi-conscious and only partly realized -- until she described it to him!!

At Antietam, he led his men into the deadly fighting in the Cornfield and the West Woods, and one colonel described him as a " gallant officer ... remarkably cool and at the very front of battle.

William was a good friend of Amalric and described him in great detail.

In a letter to R. B. Fuller Esq., dated 1 August 1913, McCormick described the circumstances that inspired him to write Advance Australia Fair:

Sakharov later described that " it took years " for him " to understand how much substitution, deceit, and lack of correspondence with reality there was " in the Soviet ideals.

A fellow don described him as being " descended from a long line of maiden aunts ".

Several English scholars and churchmen are described by Bede as being fluent in Greek due to being taught by him.

Johnson ( 1724 ) described him as " such a figure that imagination cannot form an idea of a fury from hell to look more frightful.

British general John Moore, who met Nelson in Naples at this time, described him as " covered with stars, medals and ribbons, more like a Prince of Opera than the Conqueror of the Nile.

This formula and the triangular arrangement of the binomial coefficients are often attributed to Blaise Pascal, who described them in the 17th century, but they were known to many mathematicians who preceded him.

The army of heaven is described in similar terms as the resurrected and raptured believers: " The armies in heaven, clothed in fine linen, white and clean, followed him on white horses.

His thinking is often described as Hegelian because of his references to dialectical thinking but, although he probably knew Hegel, Clausewitz's dialectic is quite different and there is little reason to consider him a disciple.

A statement issued by the band described him as, " A warm-hearted, funny and talented man, who was a valuable member of Crowded House.

Locals described him in admiration as the " Booker T. Washington of Charlotte ".

" Romare Bearden described Alston as "... one of the most versatile artists whose enormous skill led him to a diversity of styles ..." Bearden also describes the professionalism and impact that Alston had on Harlem and the African American community: "' was a consummate artist and a voice in the development of African American art who never doubted the excellence of all people's sensitivity and creative ability.

Guest is sometimes off-putting in interviews and promotional appearances ( having been described by reviewer Warren Etheredge as, " rude, condescending and intolerable "), as well as with people who have met him outside of the work environment because contrary to expectations of him as a comedian he often seems deadpan, even dour.

She once described him as a teacher " that could have taught the stones to draw correctly.

Lucien Pissarro was taught painting by his father, and described him as a “ splendid teacher, never imposing his personality on his pupil .” Gauguin, who also studied under him, referred to Pissarro “ as a force with which future artists would have to reckon ”.

The French government awarded him the Legion of Honor, the country's top civilian honor, as a Chevalier in 2002 and then an Officier in 2007, while that same year, The Guardian described Lynch as " the most important director of this era ".