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.

The church became a strong and public champion of monogamy and the nuclear family, and at times played a prominent role in political matters.

Cheney began racing motocross and became one Britain's best riders, along with his travelling companion Les Archer, who went on to become European champion.

Goren became world champion at the Bermuda Bowl in 1950.

In the House Adams became a champion of free speech, demanding that petitions against slavery be heard despite a " gag rule " that said they could not be heard.

During the 1970s, he became a Hollywood star with his portrayals of a businessman mixed up with murder in Deliverance ( 1972 ), a paraplegic Vietnam veteran in Coming Home ( 1978 ), for which he won an Academy Award for Best Actor, and a penniless ex-boxing champion in The Champ ( 1979 ).

Hewitt became the first defending Wimbledon men's champion in the open era to lose in the first round.

In 2004, Hewitt became the first man in history to lose in each Grand Slam singles tournament to the eventual champion.

George Gabriel Stokes became a champion of the entrainment interpretation, developing a model in which the aether might be ( by analogy with pine pitch ) rigid at very high frequencies and fluid at lower speeds.

While at Dunbar he became the city-wide wrestling champion two years in a row.

As an admired champion, he naturally became part of the circle of Alexander the Great.

The Redskins became the second defending champion to lose a Super Bowl ( their divisional rivals, the Dallas Cowboys, were the first, losing Super Bowl XIII after winning Super Bowl XII ).

In 1829 it broadened its issues base when it became a champion of internal improvements and of the protective tariff.

In his treatment of ecclesiastical policy and ecclesiastical reform, Gregory did not stand alone, but found powerful support: in England Archbishop Lanfranc of Canterbury stood closest to him ; in France his champion was Bishop Hugo of Dié, who afterwards became Archbishop of Lyon.

Although Molitor wanted to remain with Milwaukee when he became a free agent after the 1992 season, the franchise offered him a one year contract with a $ 900, 000 pay cut ( to $ 2. 5 million ), while the Toronto Blue Jays offered a three-year, $ 13 million ($ in current dollar terms ) deal, leading to his signing with the defending World Series champion Blue Jays.

In 1925, Nuvolari became the 350 cc European Motorcycling champion by winning the European Grand Prix.

Sweden became the first European champion after defeating Russia by 34 – 21 in the final, Russia's heaviest loss in their international history.

Sergio Mora, who won, indeed got his title shot and became a world champion boxer.

At the 2002 Winter Olympics, she became the inaugural women's skeleton champion.

Though at first an enthusiastic champion of Wagner's music, Nietzsche ultimately became hostile, viewing the festival and its revellers as symptom of cultural decay and bourgeois decadence — an event which led him to turn his eye upon the moral values esteemed by society as a whole-" Nietzsche clearly preferred to see Bayreuth fail than succeed by mirroring a society gone wrong.

After the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572 this trait in him became the more pronounced, and he continued as the chief patron of English Puritans and a champion of international Calvinism.

Later Jack Johnson, nicknamed the “ Galveston Giant ”, became the first black world heavyweight boxing champion.

Garland became a mentor for and champion of the young writer, whose intellectual honesty impressed him.

Because of this, he became the champion of Dyothelitism – the doctrine of the two wills of Christ.

Secretariat ( March 30, 1970 – October 4, 1989 ) was an American Thoroughbred racehorse, that in 1973 became the first U. S. Triple Crown champion in 25 years, setting race records in all three events in the Series — the Kentucky Derby ( 1: 59. 4 ), the Preakness Stakes ( 1: 53 ) and the Belmont Stakes ( 2: 24 )-records that still stand today.

In 1852 Mackenzie became editor of another reformist paper, the Lambton Shield.

In 1990, at the age of 20, Lara became Trinidad and Tobago's youngest-ever captain, leading them that season to victory in the one-day Geddes Grant Shield.

Later, he became a legendary figure and the model of a tough, courageous Roman, and was bestowed the honorific title, " The Shield of Rome " ( similar to Marcus Claudius Marcellus being named the " Sword of Rome ").

Huddersfield Town's Iain Dunn became the first British player to settle a match in this way-his 107th-minute goal beat Lincoln City 3-2 in the Auto Windscreens Shield on 30 November 1994.

The Shield was the cover feature for Pep Comics until March 1944, when Archie became the dominant feature ; the Shield continued in Pep Comics until January 1948.

He became the guardian of the Magic Shield that the Dwarf stole.

Notable exceptions include the 1950 Shield, which involved the England World Cup team against an FA team that had toured Canada that summer, and the 1961 Shield, when Tottenham Hotspur became the first team of the 20th century to win the Double, and played a Football Association XI in the 1961 edition.

With the formation of a new top league, the FA Premier League, the Shield became a showcase match between the Premier League and FA Cup winners from the 1993 competition onwards.

His club won the Supporters ' Shield for the second straight season, became only the third team in league history to reach the 60 point plateau, and won the 2011 MLS Cup.

After scoring 114 not out in club match against Riverside, Ponting became the youngest player to appear for Tasmania in a Sheffield Shield match, breaking Boon's record by 14 days.

He was educated at the prestigious Royal College, Colombo, where he played for the college cricket team, debuting in the Royal-Thomian series in 1925, and captained the rugby team at the annual " Royal-Trinity Encounter " ( which later became known as the Bradby Shield Encounter ).

The Quins became the first British team to win the European Shield in 2001, defeating Narbonne 42 – 33 in the final.

The Foley Shield final played in Townsville became a highlight of the rugby league calendar, with many southern talent scouts and coaches attending to see the North's players in action.

He became the primary artist for their superhero comics, including the characters The Shield ( the first patriotic superhero ), Bob Phantom, The Hangman, and Steel Sterling, until MLJ cut back on these titles to focus more on their Archie comics.

In The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History, Philip Bobbitt has written that after Fischer published it became, " impossible to maintain " that World War I had been some sort of " ghastly mistake " rather than a deliberate and intentional German policy.

When the Champions Cup became the CONCACAF Champions League, the United States Soccer Federation gave the Supporters ' Shield winner and the MLS Cup winner both direct Group Stage spots into the tournament.

On August 9, 1990, the 17th and 33d TFS of 363d TFW became the first F-16 squadrons to deploy to the United Arab Emirates in Operation Desert Shield.

Following the successful formation of the Star Saber, the next target became the Skyboom Shield, which was successfully acquired by the Decepticons, who had also managed to steal back the Star Saber, thanks to Sideways's treachery and side-switching.

His widow, Pretty Shield, became a sought after source of information concerning the battle late in her life.

In 2004 they became the first ( and so far only ) Italian team to have made the final of a European competition when they lost the European Shield final 19-25 to Montpellier.

Later the same season, Hill became a regular member of the South Australian team, making his Sheffield Shield debut against Victoria.

In 1976, Ashcroft became the first City school to win the University Shield for 31 years and went on to win it again in 1977 and 1985.