Evidently Mr Stead's Kent team also won two games earlier that season against the Duke of Richmond's XI ( also representative of Sussex ).

In 1724, Chingford v Edward Stead's XI ended early because the Chingford team refused to play to a finish when Stead's team had the advantage.

He would go on to score again for the Blades in the next match against his former club Blackburn Rovers where Stead's muted celebration further endeared him to the Rovers fans, who remained grateful for the considerable contribution he had made during the relegation scrap in 2004.

Although Mrs. Butler had no problem with Rebecca meeting Stead, she did not know Stead's reason for doing so.

Stead's XI won by an unknown margin although Gage's XI " needed just 7 ( more?

Although there were legitimate grounds for doing so, there were other motivations as well: some politicians, who felt that they were forced into passing the Act, wanted to take revenge against Stead's tactics ; rival newspapers, who felt their thunder stolen from them from the publicity gained by the Pall Mall Gazette, in turn wanted to discredit him.

While many groups protested against Stead's imprisonment, it seemed that he was treated well in prison.

In 1728, Richmond's Sussex played twice against Edward Stead's Kent and lost both matches, with Kent effectively claiming the Champion County title as "( its ) men have been too expert for those of Sussex ".

The first time a source refers to the superiority of one county is in respect of a match between Edward Stead's XI and Sir William Gage's XI at Penshurst Park in August 1728.

The source states that ( Stead's victory over Sir William Gage's XI ) was the third time this summer that the Kent men have been too expert for those of Sussex.

In August 1729, a return match between Stead's Kent XI and Gage's Sussex XI ( which included players from Hampshire and Surrey ) took place at Penshurst Park.

The Sussex teams of Richmond and Gage enjoyed an inter-county rivalry with Stead's Kent that could have originated the concept of the county championship ( see Champion County ).

William Thomas Stead's editorship from 1883 to 1889 saw the paper cover such subjects as child prostitution ; their campaign helped get the government to increase the age of consent from 12 to 16 in 1885.

While many denounced Stead's exposé, it did what it was intended to do: it prompted Parliament to resume the debate over the Criminal Law Amendment Bill on 9 July 1885.

In 1908 the paper was taken over by Stead's brothers-in-law, D. J.

Stead's best-known novel, with the ironic title The Man Who Loved Children, is largely based on her own childhood, and was first published in 1940.

Stead's Letty Fox: Her Luck, often regarded as an equally fine novel, was officially banned in Australia for several years because it was considered amoral and salacious.

Anne was no doubt responsible for Stead's reasonable attempt at conveying the local accent.

Stead's account was widely translated and the revelation of " padded rooms for the purpose of stifling the cries of the tortured victims of lust and brutality " and the symbolic figure of " The Minotaur of London " confirmed European observers worst imaginings about " Le Sadisme anglais " and inspired erotic writers to write of similar scenes set in London or involving sadistic English gentlemen.

The third subspecies, X. l. variabilis or Stead's Bushwren, was found on Stewart Island / Rakiura and nearby islands.

Stead was linked with a move to Blackpool in July 2010, with Ipswich accepting a fee of 250k, but Blackpool refused to match Stead's £ 12, 000-a-week wages.

Stead's novel, The Man Who Loved Children was recently heralded as a forgotten 20th Century " masterpiece " by American author Jonathan Franzen in the New York Times, who compared her to James Joyce and William Faulkner.

" Overall, in Stead's opinion, with Thunderball " the mixture, exotic as ever, generates an extravagant and exhilarating tale and Bond connoisseurs will be glad to have it.

* " The night of which no one speaks ": Christina Stead's art as struggle by Susan Lever, Journal of the South Pacific Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies Number 37 ( 1993 )

In the 19th century, the sensational journalism of W. T. Stead's The Maiden Tribute of Modern Babylon ( 1885 ) about the procuring of underage girls into the brothels of Victorian London provided a stimulus for the erotic imagination.

The British sought efficiency as the solution, and after the publication of Alfred Stead's 1906 book Great Japan: A Study of National Efficiency, pundits in Britain looked to Japan for lessons.

Dan asked Hez, who had limped back from his team to hold the notched-stick chair braces in place while his boys swung up the tailgate and tied it tight at the ends.

Wisman, who has had the chief controller's job for four years, calls the signals for a team operating three rows of dull-gray consoles studded with lights, switches and buttons.

The two of them had developed into a remarkable sailing team all of this happening in a time of their lives when their youth and their brotherhood knitted them together as no other time or circumstance could.

Several days after the companies had received the questionnaire, members of the research team contacted the presidents of eleven of these companies in person or by phone to discuss any ambiguities or difficulties the addressees might have experienced in completing the questionnaire.

However much football has been over-emphasized, the public likes to measure its collegiate favorites by the scoreboard, so, while Yale need never give its record a thought again since outscoring its opponents 694 to 0 in the season of 1888, Dartmouth had to wait until its championship team of 1925 for national recognition.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

`` You often hear people talk about team spirit and that sort of thing '', Benington said in a conversation after the ceremonies, `` but what this team had was a little different.

He belonged to a social club, a civic group, little theater, swimming team, and had been president of the student forum as well as treasurer of the science club.

This was the last try to develop itself as a sports club rather than just a football team, such as Lomas, Belgrano and Quilmes had successfully done in the past, but the efforts were not enough.

This request was immediately approved in a meeting presided by Carlos Bowers, who had proposed the name " Alumni " to the original football team 50 years before.

Australia had lost 2 – 1 during a tour of the West Indies in 1964 – 65, the first time they had lost a series to any team other than England.

WSC affected all Test playing nations but it weakened Australia especially as the bulk of its players had signed up with Packer ; the Australian Cricket Board ( ACB ) would not select WSC-contracted players and an almost completely new Test team had to be formed.

It was the first time since 1894 – 95 that a team following on had won a Test match.

In 1982 – 83 Australia had Greg Chappell back from WSC as captain, while the England team was weakened by the enforced omission of their South African tour rebels, particularly Graham Gooch and John Emburey.

The 2010 – 11 Ashes series is the only one in which a team has won three Tests by innings margins and it was the first time England had scored 500 or more four times in a single series.

The local football team Alemannia Aachen had a short run-out in Germany's first division, after its promotion in 2006.

After the team had developed a method of purifying penicillin to an effective first stable form in 1940, several clinical trials ensued, and their amazing success inspired the team to develop methods for mass production and mass distribution in 1945.

Another group reported it had deposited earnest money for a team in the AFL.