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Crawford and rule
To balance the situation, the Crawford rule requires that when a player first reaches a score one point short of winning, neither player may use the doubling cube for the following game, called the Crawford game.
The Crawford rule is routinely used in tournament match play.
If the Crawford rule is in effect, then another option is the Holland rule, which stipulates that after the Crawford game, a player cannot double until after at least two rolls have been played by each side.
Cambridge Springs is a home rule municipality, formerly a borough, in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, United States.
# The Disorderly Knights ( 1966 )-This part of the Lymond Chronicles finds Francis Crawford on the exotic and sweltering island of Malta, the home of the Crusading Order of Knights Hospitaller of St John ; a Turkish siege is about to be laid upon Malta, and the Knights, under the rule of their Grand Master Juan de Homedes, are anything but prepared.

Crawford and named
While appearing in Innocent Eyes Crawford met a saxophone player named James Welton.
The following year, Crawford was named one of the WAMPAS Baby Stars, along with Mary Astor, Mary Brian, Dolores Costello, Dolores del Río, Janet Gaynor and Fay Wray.
They adopted another boy, whom they named Phillip Terry, Jr. After the marriage ended in 1946, Crawford changed the child's name to Christopher Crawford.
Crawford, as the compulsive homemaker and with a powerful need to love and be loved, adopted two more children in 1947, identical twins whom she named Cindy and Cathy.
On returning home, Hasely " Raj Paul " Crawford had both a jet and a stadium named after him. After all he won his country's first gold medal.
Along with Brown County, it is one of Wisconsin's original counties, established by the Michigan Territorial legislature in 1818, and named after William H. Crawford, James Monroe's Treasurer at the time.
Crawford County was created on March 12, 1800, from part of Allegheny County and named for Colonel William Crawford.
It was named for Colonel William Crawford, a soldier during the American Revolution.
The county was organized in 1829 and is named after U. S. Senator William H. Crawford of Georgia.
The County is named for Col. William Crawford, a Revolutionary War soldier killed in 1782 while fighting Native Americans in Ohio.
The county was named in honor of Samuel J. Crawford, Governor of Kansas.
The county was named for William Harris Crawford, U. S. senator from Georgia and United States Secretary of the Treasury.
Some say it was named for William H. Crawford, who was U. S. Treasury Secretary in 1818.
Others say it was named for Col. William Crawford, who fought in the French and Indian War and Revolutionary War, and who was burned and scalped by Indians in 1782 in what is now Wyandot County, Ohio.
It was named in honor of William H. Crawford, from Georgia, who was serving as Secretary of War and Secretary of the Treasury at the time.
The county is named for statesman William H. Crawford who had served as a U. S. senator, minister to France, and secretary of the treasury.
Some notable persons either born in or who resided in Columbia County include: Oliver Hardy ( comedian, born in Harlem ), Paul Hamilton Hayne ( poet and author ), Henry Louis Benning ( Confederate general for whom Fort Benning is named ), William Few, Abraham Baldwin, George Walton, George W. Crawford, William H. Crawford ( presidential candidate in 1824 ), Thomas Watson ( populist leader and Georgia senator born in Thomson when it was still in Columbia County ), George McDuffie ( South Carolina governor and senator in the early 19th century ), Jesse Mercer ( a long-time preacher in the county for whom Mercer University is named ).
The county was formed on November 2, 1829, from a portion of Crawford County and named for John Pope, the third governor of the Arkansas Territory.

Crawford and after
Patrolmen J. W. Slate and A. L. Crawford Jr. said they arrested Ronald M. Thomas, of 1671 Nakoma St., NW, after he assaulted the officers.
To incarnate the role ’ s “ intense, tragic face ”, Fellini ’ s first choice had been Humphrey Bogart but after learning of the actor ’ s lung cancer, chose Crawford after seeing his face on the theatrical poster of All the King ’ s Men ( 1949 ).
Regular attendees at his famed soirées included Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy, Joan Crawford and Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Lauren Bacall and Humphrey Bogart, Claudette Colbert, Marlene Dietrich, Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, actor Richard Cromwell, Stanley Holloway, Judy Garland, Gene Tierney, Noël Coward, Cole Porter, director James Whale, costume designer Edith Head, and Norma Shearer, especially after the death of her first husband, Irving Thalberg.
Film actress Joan Crawford, after marrying then Pepsi-Cola President Alfred N. Steele became a spokesperson for Pepsi, appearing in commercials, television specials and televised beauty pageants on behalf of the company.
The game went to a shootout with a 1 – 1 tie after overtime, but Gretzky was controversially not selected by coach Marc Crawford as one of the five shooters.
Millets and their wild ancestors, such as barnyard grass and panic grass, were also cultivated in Japan during the Jōmon period some time after 4000 BC ( Crawford 1983, 1992 ).
She continued acting in film and television regularly through the 1960s, when her performances became fewer ; after the release of the British horror film Trog in 1970, Crawford retired from the screen.
Following a public appearance in 1974, after which unflattering photographs were published, Crawford withdrew from public life and became more and more reclusive until her death in 1977.
Crawford disinherited the two and, after Crawford's death, Christina wrote a " tell-all " memoir, Mommie Dearest, in which she alleged a lifelong pattern of physical and emotional abuse perpetrated by Crawford.
Crawford attended Stephens for only four months before withdrawing after she realized she was not prepared for college.
Tone and Crawford appeared together in Today We Live ( 1933 ) and were immediately drawn to each other, although Crawford was hesitant about entering into another romance so soon after her split from Fairbanks.
In November 1978, a year and a half after Crawford's death, Christina published Mommie Dearest, which contained allegations that Crawford was emotionally and physically abusive to Christina and her brother Christopher.
Hush … Hush, Sweet Charlotte ( 1964 ) was Robert Aldrich's follow-up to What Ever Happened to Baby Jane ?, in which he planned to reunite Davis and Crawford, but when Crawford withdrew allegedly due to illness soon after filming began, she was replaced by Olivia de Havilland.
Bonds were sold against the company to fund the new developments, but after the Internet bubble burst in 2000 and the resultant reduction in customer demand for such products, Curtis Crawford was replaced by James ( Jim ) Thorburn who reorganized the company under Chapter 11 bankruptcy in late 2001 and refocused it back to the 8 and 16 bit microcontroller market.

Crawford and John
Edinburgh is also home to a flourishing group of contemporary composers such as Nigel Osborne, Peter Nelson, Lyell Cresswell, Hafliði Hallgrímsson, Edward Harper, Robert Crawford, Robert Dow and John McLeod whose music is heard regularly on BBC Radio 3 and throughout the UK.
Chief architect in the development of the 80386 was John H. Crawford.
His opponents included John C. Calhoun, William H. Crawford, Henry Clay, and the hero of New Orleans, Andrew Jackson.
* 1960 – John Crawford, American musician ( Berlin )
Though Jackson had won the popular vote, neither he nor any of the other candidates ( John Quincy Adams, Henry Clay, and William H. Crawford ) had won a majority of the electoral vote.
* John Crawford Brown ( 1805 – 1867 ), Scottish landscape painter
In the presidential election of 1824, Van Buren supported William H. Crawford and received the electoral vote of Georgia for vice-president, but he shrewdly kept out of the acrimonious controversy which followed the choice of John Quincy Adams as President.
The remaining Mouseketeers, consisting of the White or Blue Teams, were Don Agrati ( later known as Don Grady when starring as " Robbie " on the long running sitcom My Three Sons ), Sherry Alberoni, Billie Jean Beanblossom, Johnny Crawford, Jonathan A. Kahn ( a. k. a. Tio Juan ), Eileen Diamond, Dickie Dodd ( not related to Jimmie Dodd ), Mary Espinosa, Bonnie Lynn Fields, Judy Harriet, Linda Hughes, Dallas Johann, John Lee Johann, Bonni Lou Kern, Charlie Laney, Larry Larsen, Paul Petersen, Lynn Ready, Mickey Rooney Jr., Tim Rooney, Mary Lynn Sartori, Bronson Scott, Michael Smith, Margene Storey, Ronnie Steiner, Mark Sutherland and Don Underhill.
John H. Crawford, chief architect of the original 386, co-managed the design of the P5, along with Donald Alpert, who managed the architectural team.
Only once since then has the House of Representatives chosen the President: In 1824, Andrew Jackson received 99 electoral votes, John Quincy Adams ( son of John Adams ) 84, William H. Crawford 41 and Henry Clay 37.
* The Finnish epic Kalevala is published for the first time in the English Language by John Martin Crawford.
In 1970, Crawford was presented with the Cecil B. DeMille Award by John Wayne at the Golden Globes, which was telecast from the Coconut Grove at The Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles.
Charles Griffin, John C. Robinson, Samuel W. Crawford, and James S. Wadsworth.
Charles Griffin, John C. Robinson, Samuel W. Crawford, and Lysander Cutler.
A letter in The Times ( London ), January 16, 1905, signed by Oswald Crawford, describes auction bridge as first played in 1904, while a book by " John Doe " ( F. Roe ), published in Alláhábád, India, in 1889, puts forward auction bridge as an invention of three members of the Indian Civil Service stationed at an isolated community, designed a three-handed form of bridge to compensate the lack of a fourth player.
* Sal Mineo as John " Plato " Crawford
* John Crawford Anderson, 19th-century New Zealand politician, MP for Bruce electorate
The elected officers were Samuel Stewart, county sheriff and the first county commissioners were John Hanna, Thomas Forster and James Crawford.
During those years, many of Hollywood ’ s biggest names were photographed in front of Sedona ’ s signature landscape, from Errol Flynn to Gene Tierney, John Wayne to Joan Crawford, James Stewart to Lizabeth Scott, Robert Mitchum to Elvis Presley.
Carmel Academy was run by the famous Southern educator, Moses Waddel ; it was here that John C. Calhoun and William H. Crawford were educated.
Small parts played by actors who appeared in The Poseidon Adventure, which Irwin Allen also produced, include John Crawford, Erik Nelson, Elizabeth Rogers, Ernie Orsatti, and Sheila Matthews.

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