In the cow camps, Tom Horn was regarded as a hero, as the same kind of champion he was when he entered and invariably won the local rodeos.

He was an ardent champion of the Brown & Sharpe Apprentice Program and personal counselor to countless able men who first developed their industrial talents with the company.

-- Nick Skorich, the line coach for the football champion Philadelphia Eagles, was elevated today to head coach.

Charles Reynolds of Pumpkin Ridge was rabbit showmanship champion.

He was the official world champion from 1975 to 1985 when he was defeated by Garry Kasparov.

Fischer insisted that the match be the first to ten wins ( draws not counting ), but that the champion would retain the crown if the score was tied 9 – 9.

Wesley was a champion of Arminian teachings, defending his soteriology in a periodical titled The Arminian and writing articles such as Predestination Calmly Considered.

On January 23, Jacksonville Jaguars defensive coach and former linebackers coach for the 2000 Super Bowl champion Baltimore Ravens Mike Smith was named the Falcons ' new head coach.

Cindy went on to become an accomplished gymnast and in her 30s was three times world champion kitesurfer ( 2002, 2003 & 2004 ).

Nimzowitsch never developed a knack for match play, though ; his best match success was a draw with Alekhine, but the match consisted of only two games and took place in 1914, thirteen years before Alekhine became world champion.

Prior to 1969, the National League champion ( the " pennant winner ") was determined by the best win-loss record at the end of the regular season.

The first documented account of a bare-knuckle fight in England appeared in 1681 in the London Protestant Mercury, and the first English bare-knuckle champion was James Figg in 1719.

The first world heavyweight champion under the Queensberry Rules was " Gentleman Jim " Corbett, who defeated John L. Sullivan in 1892 at the Pelican Athletic Club in New Orleans.

His father was a statewide champion fiddle player and the Wills family was either playing music, or someone was " always wanting us to play for them ," in addition to raising cotton on their farm.

The proof of Cleveland's mettle came quickly: its NFL regular-season opener was against the two-time defending champion Eagles on September 16 in Philadelphia.

It was a blockbuster trade that swapped the AL home run co-champion ( Colavito ) for the AL batting champion ( Kuenn ).

" On October 1, 1903 the first modern World Series between the American League champion Boston Pilgrims ( later known as the Red Sox ) and the National League champion Pittsburgh Pirates was played on this site.

At the Salon of 1759 he exhibited nine paintings ; it was the first Salon to be commented upon by Denis Diderot, who would prove to be a great admirer and public champion of Chardin's work.

It was the venue for a boxing match between world flyweight champion Jimmy Wilde and Joe Conn in 1918.

Saul inquired about the name of the young champion, and David told him that he was the son of Jesse.

All but the most rabid of Confederate flag wavers admit that the Old Southern tradition is defunct in actuality and sigh that its passing was accompanied by the disappearance of many genteel and aristocratic traditions of the reputedly languid ante-bellum way of life.

There, Mother was received by the scions of aristocratic lines which are dominated by the Budweisers ( of beer derivation ), the Chalmers ( of underwear origin ), and the Heinzes ( whose forbears founded a nationally famous trade in pickles ).

He was part of an aristocratic Polish family whose members had worked as mathematicians, scientists, and engineers for generations.

His father, Julius Mathison Turing ( 1873 – 1947 ), was a member of an old aristocratic family of Scottish descent who worked for the Indian Civil Service ( the ICS ).

He was born into the aristocratic governing class of Mytilene, the main city of Lesbos, where he was involved in political disputes and feuds.

He was born into the aristocratic, warrior class that dominated Mytilene, the strongest city-state on the island of Lesbos and, by the end of the seventh century BC, the most influential of all the North Aegean Greek cities, with a strong navy and colonies securing its trade-routes in the Hellespont.

Traditionally, for the poorer citizens, local marriage was the norm while the elite had been much more likely to marry abroad as a part of aristocratic alliance building.

He was an administrator of the Ferme Générale and a powerful member of a number of other aristocratic councils.

` Abdu ' l-Bahá was born in Tehran to an aristocratic family of the realm.

He classified both what he regarded as good and what he regarded as bad constitutions, and came to the conclusion that the best constitution was a mixed system, including monarchic, aristocratic, and democratic elements.

At one extreme, anthropologist Marvin Harris, author of Cannibals and Kings, has suggested that the flesh of the victims was a part of an aristocratic diet as a reward, since the Aztec diet was lacking in proteins.

It was probably in Rome that Catullus fell deeply in love with the " Lesbia " of his poems, who is usually identified with Clodia Metelli, a sophisticated woman from the aristocratic house of patrician family Claudii Pulchri and sister of the infamous Publius Clodius Pulcher.

Seymour had aristocratic connections, which may have appealed to Beatty since he sought connections in society, but it was also the case that Seymour's sister was a longstanding close friend of Churchill's wife.

Historically, especially in late 18th-and early 19th-century Britain, a dandy, who was self-made, often strove to imitate an aristocratic lifestyle despite coming from a middle-class background.

Despite the fact that El Cid's mother's family was aristocratic, in later years the peasants would consider him one of their own.

Like many members of older established aristocratic families in England, Oxford flirted with Catholicism ; after his return from Italy he was reported to have embraced the religion.

He was born to an aristocratic family of the Kingdom of Navarre, the youngest son of Juan de Jaso, privy counsellor to King John III of Navarre ( Jean d ' Albret ), and Doña Maria de Azpilcueta y Aznárez, sole heiress of two noble Navarrese families.

These included resentment of royal absolutism ; resentment by peasants, laborers and the bourgeoisie toward the traditional seigneurial privileges possessed by the nobility ; resentment of the Church's influence over public policy and institutions ; aspirations for freedom of religion ; resentment of aristocratic bishops by the poorer rural clergy ; aspirations for social, political and economic equality, and ( especially as the Revolution progressed ) republicanism ; hatred of Queen Marie-Antoinette, who was falsely accused of being a spendthrift and an Austrian spy ; and anger toward the King for firing finance minister Jacques Necker, among others, who were popularly seen as representatives of the people.

Washington lived an aristocratic lifestyle — fox hunting was a favorite leisure activity.

Historian Gordon Wood concludes that the greatest act in his life was his resignation as commander of the armies — an act that stunned aristocratic Europe.

One very notable social renegade was an aristocratic descendant of the Gracchi, infamous for his marriage ( as a bride ) to a male horn player.

According to Strabo their territory was divided in accordance with custom, each tribe was further divided into cantons, each governed by a military aristocratic ruler whose title chief of the tribe gave him the powers of a King-Priest (' tetrarch ').