However, when in 1906 two city teams chose the city's Roman amphitheatre as a venue to showcase the game, crowd enthusiasm and media interest began to rise.

Between 1905 and 1908, all three major Southern Hemisphere rugby countries sent their first touring teams to the Northern Hemisphere: New Zealand in 1905, followed by South Africa in 1906 and then Australia in 1908.

Between 1890 and 1906 sectional tournaments were held in the east and the west of the country to determine the best two doubles teams, which competed in a play-off to see who would play the defending champions in the challenge round.

Construction was started in 1906 using teams of horses and oxen for power.

While the first players known to be paid to play football are believed to have played for club teams in the Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania area, perhaps the first great professional football rivalry was between the Massillon Tigers and Canton Bulldogs from 1903 to 1906 and 1915 to 1919.

On the opening day, following the practice introduced at the Intercalated Games of 1906, teams paraded behind national flags.

* Erie Sailors, several minor league baseball teams that played in Erie, Pennsylvania between 1906 and 1994

Earlier mascots include " Jimmie " the Coyote ( 1892 – 1893 ), the " Aggies ," and " Bulldog " ( 1906 – 1910, unofficial and for specific teams only, such as the Wrestling squad ).

There were players called Storrs and Manwood who played in the 1906 and 1909 teams, and a player called Rhodes who played in the amateur's first game ; a Herbert Rhodes was a significant benefactor of the ' later ' Celtic.

Only four teams have won more regular season games: the 1906 Chicago Cubs and the 2001 Seattle Mariners with 116, the 1998 Yankees with 114 and the 1954 Cleveland Indians with 111.

Over a 13-year career, Willis played for three teams, the Boston Beaneaters ( 1898 – 1905 ), Pittsburgh Pirates ( 1906 – 1909 ) and St. Louis Cardinals ( 1910 ), compiling a 249-205 record with a 2. 63 ERA.

When he changed teams to the Pittsburgh Pirates for 1906, whose offense had a combined batting average of. 256 over the four years Willis was with the team, Willis compiled a record of 88-46.

The current club was formed as Hamburger Sport-Verein in 1919 through the union of three city teams severely weakened by World War I: Sportclub Germania zu Hamburg ; Hamburger FC ( 1888 ); and FC Falke Eppendorf ( 1906 ).

The first three editions of the Olympic football event in 1900 – 1906 had an unofficial status, as the event was not yet open for national football teams to compete, and only had limited participation of three or four club teams from a few nations.

Denmark had no club team invited in the 1900 Olympics and the 1904 Olympics, but then received a special invitation for the 1906 Olympics, to compete against 1 Greek club team ( Athens ) and 2 club teams from the Ottoman Empire ( Smyrna and Thessaloniki ).

On June 6, 1906 a representation of Lwów youth came to Kraków for a repeat match, this time composed of two already organized teams, the Czarni and the team of the IV Gymnasium.

From 1906 through the mid 1920s, Taiwan's baseball teams consisted mainly of Japanese players.

Cracovia is the oldest Polish football club still in existence ( teams from Lwów were a few years older, but the city of Lwow was occupied and subsequently annexed by the Soviet Union in September 1939 and is now part of Ukraine ), and has continually participated in competition since its founding on 13 June 1906.

In the fall of 1906 another tournament took place, in which as many as 16 teams participated.

On 21 October 1906, the teams of Cracovia and " Biało-czerwoni " played each other, drawing 1-1.

Tournaments were played at the 1900 and 1904 games and the Intercalated Games of 1906, but these were contested by various clubs and scratch teams.

In 1906 the name was changed to IF Elfsborg, because the founders felt there were too many teams with ' Borås ' in their name.

Eros Bolivar " Cy " Barger ( May 18, 1885 – September 23, 1964 ) was a right-handed starting pitcher and left-handed batter who played in the American League for the New York Highlanders ( 1906 – 07 ); in the National League with the Brooklyn teams Superbas ( 1910 ) and Dodgers ( 1911 – 12 ), and for the Pittsburgh Rebels ( 1914 – 15 ) in the Federal League.

The Institute derives its name from Paul Von Groth's Chemische Krystallographie, a five-volume work which appeared between 1906 and 1919.

His pamphlet " The Art of Organ Building and Organ Playing in Germany and France " ( 1906, republished with an appendix on the state of the organ-building industry in 1927 ) effectively launched the 20th century Orgelbewegung, which turned away from romantic extremes and rediscovered baroque principles — although this sweeping reform movement in organ building eventually went further than Schweitzer himself had intended.

This house, where Gaudí lived from 1906 to 1926, was built by Francesc Berenguer in 1904.

He qualified MBBS from the school with distinction in 1906.

* Portions of this article have been taken from the Jewish Encyclopedia of 1906.

In 1906, Berg met the singer Helene Nahowski, daughter of a wealthy family ( said by some to be in fact the illegitimate daughter of Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria from his liaison with Anna Nahowski ); despite the outward hostility of her family, the two were married on May 3, 1911.

The Lord's Day Act, which since 1906 had prohibited business transactions from taking place on Sundays, was struck down as unconstitutional in the 1985 case R. v. Big M Drug Mart Ltd. Calgary police officers witnessed several transactions at the Big M Drug Mart, all of which occurred on a Sunday.

A colony was established, and a series of military governors were posted to Clipperton from that time, the last of whom would be Ramón Arnaud ( 1906 – 1916 ).

Portrait of Sabato Morais, from the 1906 Jewish Encyclopedia.

Resulting from this conference was the formation of the Intercollegiate Athletic Association of the United States in 1906.

Chart showing the progress of Chelsea's league finishes from 1905 – 1906 season to 2007 – 08 Premier League | 2007 – 08 season

Ruins from the 1906 San Francisco earthquake, remembered as one of the worst natural disaster s in United States history

** Diet of Finland, the legislative assembly of the Grand Duchy of Finland from 1809 to 1906

From 1906 onwards, Jones was an active member of the International Phonetic Association, and was Assistant Secretary from 1907 to 1927, Secretary from 1927 to 1949, and President from 1950 to 1967.

In 1906, the U. S. Religious Census listed Churches of Christ for the first time as a group which was separate and distinct from the Disciples of Christ.

In 1906, Reginald Fessenden transmitted the first audio radio broadcast in history also playing the first record, that of a contralto singing Handel's Largo from Xerxes.

He then became the naval advisor to the Army Council from 1906 to 1908 where he was involved with drawing up plans for joint operations to land an expeditionary force in Europe.

Lösch's organism was renamed Entamoeba histolytica by Fritz Schaudinn in 1903 ; he later died, in 1906, from a self-inflicted infection when studying this amoeba.

* Toulouse-since 2010 ( previously existed from 1906 to 1952 )

The American situation led to a worldwide boom in the production and exhibition of films from 1906 onwards.

In 1906, Albert Edward Smith and James Stuart Blackton at Vitagraph took the next step, and in their Humorous Phases of Funny Faces, what appear to be cartoon drawings of people move from one pose to another.

Arc lights had been used to produce special lighting effects in films like the light from a lamp or firelight before 1906, but this now became more common.

The vast increase in film production after 1906 inevitably brought specialist writers into film-making as part of the increasing sub-division of labour, but even so the film companies still had to buy stories from outsiders to get enough material for their productions.