Originally, poorly organised Lions teams regularly suffered defeat at the hands of their hosts, but by 1955 the tourists took the matches seriously enough to obtain a 2 – 2 draw in South Africa.

These include: The Young Lions ( 1958 ), The Naked and the Dead ( 1958 ), Battle Cry ( 1955 ), Run Silent, Run Deep ( 1958 ), Captain Newman, M. D.

O ' Reilly toured twice with the British Lions, on their 1955 tour to South Africa and their 1959 tour to Australia and New Zealand.

He made his debut for the Lions on 26 June 1955, scoring two tries against a Northern Universities XV.

In 1955, during their second year as a franchise, the Lions again failed to make the playoffs.

Despite this, Lions fans were surprised at the move of the team directors to ask Annis Stukus to step down as the team's Head Coach in October 1955.

Both 1955 and 2015 signs have symbols representing the Rotary, Kiwanis and Lions clubs.

During their 1955 tour to South Africa, the Lions won 19 and drew one from the 25 fixtures.

Ellis Park was built in 1928, and in 1955 hosted a record 100, 000 people in a Test between South Africa and the British and Irish Lions.

* Harry Spring – builder, 1976 ( Meraloma Club ( BCRFU ) as president 1937 ; BC Lions as treasurer 1955 – 56, vice-president 1957, and president 1958 – 59 ).

It saw most of its use as the home of the BC Lions of the CFL from 1954 – 1982, in which the venue also played host to the first Grey Cup game held west of Ontario in 1955.

He was capped twenty times for he played on the 1955 Lions and was also invited to represent the Barbarians.

He played 18 games for the Barbarians between 1955 and 1958, the last being on the 28th May 1958 at the RFUEA Ground, Nairobi, versus East Africa ; a ground that he had previously visited whilst on tour with the Lions, though on that occasion he had not been selected to play.

He played mostly at No 8, but Massie believes that he would have made a better flanker, a position at which he was capped four times by the British Lions against during the 1955 British Lions tour to South Africa.

Thompson also was noted for being the first manager of Lions Drag Strip near Long Beach, California in 1955.

* South Africa Lions tour ( 1955 )

The Lions won the national championship in 1972 and went to the Tangerine Bowl twice in 1955 and again in 1956.

This was the first time an all-Welsh front row was selected for a Lions test match since Billy Williams, Bryn Meredith and Courtney Meredith on the 1955 Lions tour.

CKLG AM 1070 began in 1955 as a North Vancouver radio station operated by Lions Gate Broadcasting Ltd.

These included the Hearing Advancement Award from the Lions Club Hearing Foundation in 1951, the Testimonial of Merit / Woman of the Year award from the La Sertoma International organization in 1953, and the Sixth Annual Award of the Save the Children Foundation in 1955.

He was made captain of the 1955 British Lions tour to South Africa.

Founded in 1955 as a preparatory school called Justo Sierra Institute ( Instituto Justo Sierra ), it was initially sponsored by Lions International until 1956, when it renamed as Northwestern Institute of Technology ( Instituto Tecnológico del Noroeste ).

In addition, they toured pre-independence Namibia ( then South West Africa ), in 1955, 1962, 1968, and 1974.

Johnny Cash toured the area in 1955, playing on the same local radio show as the Teen Kings and suggested that Orbison approach Sam Phillips at Sun Records, home of rockabilly stars including Presley, Carl Perkins, Jerry Lee Lewis and Cash.

They also toured with the " Birdland Stars of 1955 ", whose lineup included Sarah Vaughan, Erroll Garner, Lester Young, George Shearing, and Stan Getz.

From 1953 to 1955 she was a member of the BBC Repertory Company and the National Theatre Company and toured Wales performing Welsh and English plays for the Welsh Arts Council.

It was the intellectual minority who knew of him until he first toured the United States in 1955 and 1956, close on the heels of his North American debut at the Stratford Festival of Canada.

The 1950s was a busy period for Murray, during which she had her own television show, starred at the London Palladium with Norman Wisdom, appeared in a Royal Command Performance ( 1955 ), and toured the world.

In 1955 Meads was selected for the New Zealand under 21 side which toured Ceylon ( now Sri Lanka ).

During 1954 and 1955 Angelou toured Europe with a production of the opera Porgy and Bess.

Barry Humphries was invited to join the fledgling Union Theatre Repertory Company early in 1955 and toured Victorian country towns performing Twelfth Night, directed by Ray Lawler.

She toured in this role to Germany in 1951 and to France and Australia in 1955 – 56.

From 1955 through 1960 Erdman toured extensively as a solo artist throughout the U. S. Notable works from her repertory of that period include Changingwoman ( 1951 ) with a commissioned score by Henry Cowell including vocalizations by Erdman as she moved through a multi-colored abstract projected environment, Portrait of a Lady created to jazz recordings that were layered by John Cage into his eight track commissioned score, Dawn Song, a lyrical solo with commissioned score by Alan Hovhaness, Fearful Symmetry ( 1956 ) an allegory in six visions inspired by William Blake's poem, The Tyger to Ezra Laderman's Sonata for Violincello in which Erdman emerged from and interacted with a metal sculpture by Carlus Dyer, and Four Portraits from Duke Ellington's Shakespeare Album ( 1958 ), a suite of comic portrayals of Shakespearean heroines.

In 1952, she was cast in the leading role of the stage play The Time of the Cuckoo, which was later made into the movie Summertime ( 1955 ), and subsequently toured with it.

Between November 1954 and April 1955, he toured in that role in the USA and Canada ending with 12 weeks at the ANTA Theater, New York and two weeks at the Colonial Theater, Boston.

He toured with Oscar Peterson after graduating in 1955 and then moved to New York City in 1956.

The 1951 and 1955 French sides that toured Australia are still regarded as two of the strongest sides ever to tour that country.

She toured in several stage hits including the 1955 National company of Plain and Fancy co-starring her husband Craig Stevens, Jean Kerr's Mary, Mary and Cactus Flower also co-starring Stevens.

In 1958 he toured India with Daya Mata ( the organization's president from 1955 until her death in 2010 ) and two others.

In 1955 he formed his own octet, with which he toured the UK for eighteen months.

Booth was selected for the New South Wales hockey team in 1955 and toured New Zealand in 1956 in preparation for the Olympics.

Gullin toured several European countries with Chet Baker in October 1955, in a group which was marred by tragedy ; it was Gullin who found the body of the group's pianist Dick Twardzik, victim of a heroin overdose, on October 21, in a Paris hotel room.

In 1955, South Africa toured England for a five Test series.

In 1955 Bill was chosen for the Royal Variety Performance, and when American stars such as Frankie Laine, Lena Horne, Billy Daniels and Dorothy Lamour toured Britain, he was the opening comedian in their shows.

In this position he became increasingly well known and widely despised by the Zionist camp in American Judaism, particularly after he toured the broader Middle East in 1955 and his views became increasingly identified by opponents with Arab and Palestinian causes.