Despite one of the smallest high school enrollments in the state of Missouri, the purple and white Bulldogs fielded four Missouri State High School Athletic Association state-qualifying teams.

Despite a winning record, the 1916 Indians season was disappointing, losing twice to the Canton Bulldogs, who were led by Jim Thorpe, and splitting a pair of games with the Columbus Panhandles.

Despite their fat " puss " expression, Bulldogs are generally docile and tractable.

Despite earning a shutout in their first game, a 5 – 0 win over the Montreal Canadiens on December 22, 1920 — the only team ever to do so up to that point — the Tigers were as noncompetitive as the Bulldogs.

Despite wins against three of the top four ( St George Illawarra Dragons, Gold Coast Titans and the Melbourne Storm ) and coming within three points of the other ( Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs ) losses to bottom placed teams Cronulla Sharks and Sydney Roosters at home saw the raiders finish in 13 < small >< sup > th </ sup ></ small >.

Despite the split in Stampede, The British Bulldogs remained as a tag team in AJPW, at the request of Giant Baba.

Despite playing in a mid-major conference, the Gonzaga Bulldogs are generally considered to be a major program.

Despite captaining Sydney to their 2005 premiership, Hall stated that he wanted to be remembered as a Bulldogs player due to them giving him a last chance at playing AFL football in 2010.

Despite being 33 years old when he retired, many considered it to be a premature end to his career as he was still greatly contributing to the Western Bulldogs in a key midfielder position.

Despite this, the season was a good one for Anasta individually as he made his State of Origin debut, scored 10 tries and at 20 years and 145 days, became the youngest ever man to captain the Bulldogs.

Despite folding occurring within a crowded cellular environment, it typically proceeds smoothly.

Despite their early ' 90s establishment, it wasn't until a decade later, after the folding of Pantera, that the group recorded any albums.

Despite instructions not to, a good number of the delegates would insist on folding their punched card as they would a normal ballot.

Despite low sequence similarity between adrenodoxin-type and plant-type ferredoxins, the two classes have a similar folding topology.

Despite finishing in 11th and last place ( Dublin City being the 12th team in the league and subsequently folding during the season ) the club were forced to play a relegation / promotion playoff against Dundalk.

Despite the setback, Star goaltender Marc-André Fleury is often credited as the one who landed the Screaming Eagles on the map and prevented them from folding.

Despite the lower wages paid, the league still suffers from teams folding, or quitting the league due to financial problems.

Despite Vatican pessimism and a lack of visible progress, Pacelli continued the secret negotiations, until Pius XI ordered them to be discontinued in 1927.

Despite the drop-off of work in 1926, 1927 was another busy year, the Court sitting continuously from 15 June to 16 December, handing down 4 orders, 4 judgments and 1 advisory opinion.

Despite all this, Dodge Brothers ’ sales had already dropped to seventh place in the industry by 1927, and Dillon, Read began looking for someone to take over the company on a more permanent basis.

Despite 19th Century efforts to protect the hen, by 1927, the population of birds had dropped to 13.

Despite having legitimate jobs during the period 1927 through 1929, he also cracked safes, robbed stores, and stole cars.

Despite construction of the 2-8-2 engine River Esk in 1923 and the rebuilding of Muriel into the 0-8-2 River Irt in 1927, the line was short of motive power.

Despite this increase in the potential maximum term of the Dáil to seven years, Section 7 of the Electoral ( Amendment ) Act 1927 remained in force under the new constitution, as it applied to the term of the Dáil.

Despite the superficial unification of China in 1927 under the rule of the Kuomintang ( KMT ) under Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek, warlordism remained a problem until the victory of the Communist Party of China in 1949.

Despite the fact that the Italian border is less than 20 km away and that Ajdovščina was under Italian administration from 1918 to 1945 as a commune of the Province of Gorizia ( as Aidussina ), except during the period between 1924 and 1927, when the Province of Gorizia was abolished and annexed to the Province of Udine during Italian rule ( 1918 – 1943, nominally lasted to 1945 ), the style of the town does not resemble that of a typical Italian town.

Despite their rocky off-screen relationship, they continued to generate box-office revenue for the studio, and MGM paired them in two more silents Love ( 1927 ), a modern adaptation of Anna Karenina, and A Woman of Affairs ( 1928 ).

Despite being rejected by the Coliseum, the Buccaneers did play two true home games in Los Angeles, both of them exhibition games against the AFL's New York Yankees in January 1927.

Despite winning what would be its last Stanley Cup in 1927, the team lost $ 50, 000 for the season .< ref name = time >

" ( Despite the publication date of 1937 given here English Shepherds were registered as a breed before that time through UKC ( 1927 )) and probably the defunct Southeastern Kennel Club before then.

Despite these innovations, limitations remained, and many of the sensational newspaper and magazine stories in the period from 1897 to 1927, ( see Yellow Journalism ) were illustrated with engravings.

Despite this, Blondes closed in April 1927.

Despite losing to Fred Covey in 1927, Etchebaster returned in his customary blue beret to win the world championship in London in 1928.

Despite losing in 1921, the side went on to win the 1922, 1923, 1924, 1926 and 1927 championships.

Despite this, in 1926 and 1927 there were a total of 24 fatal commercial airline crashes, a further 16 in 1928, and 51 in 1929 ( killing 61 people ), which remains the worst year on record at an accident rate of about 1 for every flown.

Despite the efforts of its National Organiser, Manny Shinwell, the AMWU was wound up in early 1927.

Despite the death of Ingersoll in 1927 and the closing of most of his Luna Parks, the name's popularity continued with newer parks with the name opening with regularity.

Despite Maserati's strong performances, Campari claimed victory for Alfa Romeo in the 1927 Coppa Acerbo.

Despite a rocky beginning ( the Fathers had learnt the wrong local language and only attracted 5 students in the first 18 months ), the school eventually became a success – a British official in 1927 said that is was the best school ( of only 5 ) in the north of Ghana.

She once said, “ In all the pictures I had seen … they never used colored people for anything except savages .” Despite this, she tried out for a role in the film Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin in 1927 and landed the part.

Despite Ibn Saud's attempts to mollify the Ikhwan by submitting their accusations to the religious scholars (' ulama '), they provoked an international incident by destroying an Iraqi force that had violated the Saudi – Iraqi neutral zone established by Great Britain and Ibn Sa ' ud between Iraq and Arabia ( 1927 – 28 ); the British bombed Najd in retaliation.