Today many amateurs think of Morphy as a dazzling combinative player, who excelled in sacrificing his queen and checkmating his opponent a few brilliant moves later.

While the Browns excelled on defense, Cleveland's winning ways were driven by an offense that employed Brown's version of the T formation, which emphasized speed, timing and execution over set plays.

Alberti also claimed that he " excelled in all bodily exercises ; could, with feet tied, leap over a standing man ; could in the great cathedral, throw a coin far up to ring against the vault ; amused himself by taming wild horses and climbing mountains.

The Chargers were the originators of the term " Fearsome Foursome " to describe their all-star defensive line, anchored by Faison and Ernie Ladd ( the latter also excelled in professional wrestling ).

On a visit to the Highlands, Edward overstays his leave and is arrested and charged with desertion but is rescued by the Highland chieftain Fergus MacIvor and his mesmerizing sister Flora, whose devotion to the Stuart cause, " as it exceeded her brother's in fanaticism, excelled it also in purity ".

Lionel Aldridge had replaced Quinlan, but Jordan and Davis still anchored the defensive line, linebacker Ray Nitschke excelled at run stopping and pass coverage, while the secondary was led by defensive backs Herb Adderley and Willie Wood.

Their defensive line was anchored by Pro Bowl defensive tackle Bob Lilly, who excelled at pressuring quarterbacks and breaking up running plays.

He praised the unmarried state as the highest ( De monogamia, xvii ; Ad uxorem, i. 3 ), called upon Christians not to allow themselves to be excelled in the virtue of celibacy by Vestal Virgins and Egyptian priests, and he pronounced second marriage a species of adultery ( De exhortations castitatis, ix ).

She also excelled at dancing – an accomplishment often remarked by those who saw her, whether friendly or hostile, having been carefully trained in it since her early youth.

Inspired by his schoolmaster, Philip H. Burton, he excelled in school productions, his first being The Apple Cart.

They described James as the embodiment of good monarchy with Mair's eulogy that James '... indeed excelled by far in virtue his father, grandfather and his great-grandfather nor will I give precedence over the first James to any of the Stewarts ' while Boece in similar vein calls James the ' maist vertuous Prince that evir was afoir his days '.

The 18th ( Eastern ) Division, which had excelled on 1 July, once more demonstrated by capturing most of Thiepval on the first day that careful training, preparation and leadership could overcome the obstacles of trench warfare.

Plato in his Phaedo identified Acheron as the second greatest river in the world, excelled only by Oceanus.

A painting ( the Daphnephoria ) by Frederic Leighton showing a musical competition similar to the competitions Statius and his father excelled in.

Boerne High School has excelled in its athletic department, being named the best in the region recently by the San Antonio Express-News.

He was taught by Obadiah Sedgwick, another Puritan, and excelled in both his studies and fencing.

Rubinstein was also adept at improvisation — a practice at which Beethoven had excelled but by Rubinstein's time was on the wane.

He excelled in art, being taught by Gerard van Honthorst, and found the maths and sciences easy.

" Ironically, Reines ’ excelled in literary and history courses, but received average or low marks in science and math in his freshman year of high school, though he improved in those areas by his junior and senior years through the encouragement of an unidentified teacher who gave him a key to the school laboratory and gave him permission to work whenever he wanted.

As a young prince, Sejong excelled in various studies and was favored by King Taejong over his two older brothers.

After receiving his law degree, Spaak practiced law in Brussels, where he " excelled in defending Communists charged with conspiring against the security of the realm ", including Fernando de Rosa, an Italian student who attempted to kill Crown Prince Umberto of Italy during a state visit by the prince to Brussel.

* 1801-James Strutt of England writes, " the ladies not only accompanied the gentlemen in pursuit of the diversion, but often practiced it by themselves ; and even excelled the men in knowledge and exercise of the art.

Though not strictly " demogroups " by definition, the scene always had various polyhistors who excelled in all areas of demomaking ; rather than gathering various other persons to aid them in a creative process, they perform all jobs of programming, musicmaking and visual art themselves.

Historical marker in Academy Park ( Albany, New York ) commemorating Henry's work with electricity. Henry excelled at his studies ( so much so, that he would often be helping his teachers teach science ) that in 1826 he was appointed Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy at The Albany Academy by Principal T. Romeyn Beck.

As a poor student who excelled at running, Gregory was aided by teachers at Sumner High School, among them Warren St. James.

They also excelled in shipbuilding, which made them excellent mariners because of their discovery of navigating their ships to a precise destination by using the stars as their guide.

Allende was a talented athlete in his youth, being a member of the Everton de Viña del Mar sports club ( named after the more famous English football club of the same name and which regularly competes at the highest level in Chilean football ), where he is said to have excelled at the long jump.

The third son, Stephen V ( d. 1493 ) excelled as a military commander and was made Voivod of Transylvania, the first of a long line of Báthory rulers of that country.

James excelled in long distance running: " I was quite good at it, not because I was physically good, but because I had more determination.

Based on what distances the progeny of the sires so designated excelled in during their racing careers ( the distance preferences displayed by the sires themselves while racing being irrelevant ), each chef-de-race ( the list released in the early 1980s identified 120 such sires, and 85 more have been added ) is placed in one or two of the following categories, or " aptitudinal groups ": Brilliant, Intermediate, Classic, Solid or Professional, with " Brilliant " indicating that the sire's progeny fared best at very short distances and " Professional " denoting a propensity for very long races on the part of the sire's offspring, the other three categories ranking along the same continuum in the aforementioned order.

Born in Washington, D. C., an all-round athlete, Johnson attended University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and excelled at high jump, long jump and decathlon as well as hurdles.

Bestowed with exceptional qualities in a man, he excelled at the English sports of the day: cricket, rugby, cycling, swimming and tennis, he loved outdoors the best developing a rugged and robust physique by trekking, packing, marching and hunting for so long.

Buck did well at Otago Medical School, where he also excelled in sport, becoming national long jump champion in 1900 and 1903.

He excelled at Fenwick High School in Oak Park, Illinois, where he was an All-American in basketball and also an Illinois high school state track finalist in long jump and triple jump.

After graduating West Feliciana High School he attended Meridian Junior College from 1997 until 1999 where he excelled in the triple jump and long jump and addition to playing on the basketball team his freshman year.

Stanisława Walasiewicz of Poland excelled in the women's events at the Ernst-Happel-Stadion in Vienna, winning both the 100 and 200 metres, as well as silver medals in the long jump and 4 x 100 metres relay.

She and Fernanda Ribeiro both excelled at a national level as young girls and have dominated Portuguese middle and long distance running since.

He excelled in the long jump and still has the seventh longest distance ever posted indoors by a US high schooler with a jump of.

Early simulators often suffered from flight models and instrument panels that differed little between aircraft, but more recent examples have excelled in this regard, forcing the virtual pilot to learn the carefully modelled strengths and weaknesses of the various types ( e. g. the different fighting and flying styles of a Spitfire versus a Messerschmitt 109 in IL-2 Sturmovik or a Mitsubishi Zero versus a US Navy F4F Wildcat in Combat Flight Simulator 2 ).

Smuts excelled at hit-and-run warfare, and the unit evaded and harassed a British army forty times its size.

Brewer excelled with the Kamloops Bantam AAA Jardine Blazers of the British Columbia Amateur Hockey Association ( BCAHA ).

Alfred Lyttelton QC ( 7 February 1857 – 5 July 1913 ) was a British politician and sportsman who excelled at both football and cricket.

The Huxley family is a British family of which several members have excelled in scientific, medical, artistic, and literary fields.