The inaugural league was called the GOPPPL ( Greater Oakland Professional Pigskin Prognosticators League ), and the first draft took place in the rumpus room of Winkenbach's home in Oakland, CA in August 1963.

He and his wife Joan worked with Robert Jacobvitz, an executive at the Jewish Federation of the Greater East Bay ( Oakland, CA ), to start and run the " International Committee to Commemorate Dr. Aristides de Sousa Mendes.

Local lodges are in Albuquerque, New Mexico ; Houston, Texas ; Las Vegas, Nevada ; Los Angeles, California ; Greenville, Mississippi ; Oakland, California ; Orange County, California ; Peninsula ( Santa Clara County, California ); Phoenix, Arizona ; Portland, Oregon ; Salinas, California ; San Antonio, Texas ; Greater San Gabriel Valley, California ; San Francisco, California ; Tucson, Arizona ; Chicago, Illinois and Washington, D. C.

Mr. Gill proclaimed his gratitude for Adrian's work by citing his " intensely hands-on approach with the children of the Greater Oakland area has helped to shape the future teachers, leaders and politicians of our great state.

As a means of maintaining its historic connection with urban churches in Detroit following its move to suburban Oakland County, the college began offering undergraduate courses in Urban Ministry as well as non-credit continuing education courses at Greater New Mt Moriah Baptist Church.

He was part of the Inquirer team that received a second-place award for the series " The Future of Pro Sports " in 2005 from the Society of Professional Journalists, Greater Philadelphia Chapter.

His journalism prizes include awards from the Society of Professional Journalists, the Armstrong Memorial Foundation, the Sidney Hillman Foundation, the California Associated Press TV and Radio Association, the California Newspaper Publishers Association, the Best in the West, Project Censored, PEN American Center, and the Greater Los Angeles Press Club.

* 1984: the 2nd Elliot Norton Award For Professional Excellence in Boston Theatre, known at the time as the Norton Prize, presented by the Boston Theatre District Association, and now given by StageSource: the Greater Boston Theatre Alliance

Manchester United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Old Trafford, Greater Manchester, that plays in the Premier League.

* Out of their own mouths: a documentary study of the new line of the Comintern on war New York: Young People's Socialist League, Greater New York Federation, 1935

The Thorold Blackhawks are a Junior ' B ' hockey team in the Greater Ontario Junior Hockey League.

He achieved All-American Football League honors five times, and is a member of the American Football League All-Time Team, the Buffalo Bills ' Wall of Fame, and the Greater Buffalo Sports Hall of Fame.

There are also other smaller leagues, such as the Murray Football League, Kyabram & District Football League and the Picola & District Football League which have teams from in and around Greater Shepparton.

Due to Burnley's absence in top flight over the last three decades, Blackburn has also formed rivalries with other regional Premier League clubs, especially Bolton Wanderers, Manchester United and Manchester City, all located in the nearby Greater Manchester area.

* Metropolitan Police F. C., the football club of the Greater London Metropolitan Police currently members of the Isthmian League.

He learned hockey playing for Youth Hockey of Winthrop as part of the GBYHL ( Greater Boston Youth Hockey League ).

He played minor hockey in the Greater Toronto Hockey League, where he caught the attention of OHL scouts in 1999.

Some junior leagues, like the Greater Metro Junior A Hockey League and Manitoba Major Junior Hockey League operate outside the jurisdiction of Hockey Canada.

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He is currently the senior coach of the Greater Western Sydney Football Club in the Australian Football League.

201 From 1973 to 1975, he participated in ice hockey with the Don Mills Flyers of the Greater Toronto Hockey League.

The Islamic conquest of Afghanistan began from Herat, which was one of the important cities of Greater Khorasan | Khorasan, and made its way to Kabul in the late 7th century.

Almost immediately after Serbia's autonomy, the Serbs began seeking expansion and unity with all the rest of Serbs and other Slavs in neighbouring regions ; project of Greater Serbia under the panserbic intellectual influence of Ilia Garasanin and Vuk Stefanovic Kadarzic.

He began to follow a policy which was more independent from Bohemia, including in respect to friendly relations with his Upper Silesian cousin Duke Władysław of Opole and also with duke Przemysł II of Greater Poland.

Jadwiga's death undermined Władysław's right to the throne ; and as a result old conflicts between the nobility of Lesser Poland, generally sympathetic to Władysław, and the gentry of Greater Poland began to surface.

It was not until the sixteenth century that urban sprawl began to build over the adjoining fields, eventually taking over nearby villages such as Marylebone and Kensington, and gradually creating the vast Greater London that exists today.

During the Second World War, this growth continued as IBM, which was founded in Greater Binghamton, began emerging as a global leader in technology.

Other pre-Roman civilizations include Magna Graecia ( or Greater Greece ), when Greeks began settling in Southern Italy in the 8th century BC and lasted until the 3rd century BC and also the Etruscan civilization, which flourished between 900 and 150 BC in the central section of the peninsula.

Pauline's writing career that led to " Dear Abby " began in January 1956 when she was 37 and new to the Greater San Francisco Area.

Henry didn't wait for the promised aid from Western rulers and began to concentrate the surviving troops of Lesser Poland and his own Silesian and Greater Poland forcea in Legnica.

Greater Petersburg Reality Corp. CEO Bellamy decided in the late 1914 to subdivide the farm and develop it for housing and work began in 1915.

Greater efforts to suppress religious activity began in the 1930s.

Then Greater Northerners began to take out members of other political factions out of the government, especially Lesser Northerners.

Within the state, the idea of a Greater East Asian Co-Prosperity Sphere began to foment.

Using that as a justification for war, Imperial General Headquarters launched the so-called Greater East Asia War which began with a surprise attack on the U. S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.

The first developments of the Greater Rochester International Airport began in 1927, with the construction of Hangar No. 1 on a patch of land south of Rochester on Scottsville Road.

The setting-down of the current structure of districts in England began in 1965, when Greater London and its 32 London boroughs were created.

At the same time, guerilla war also began in Mazovia and Greater Poland, and Lithuanian units under Grand Hetman of Lithuania Paweł Jan Sapieha were moving towards Red Ruthenia.

Until the mid 1990s, when it began to expand across the country, most of the company's pubs were clustered around the Greater London area.

John Speight was born at 57 Chester Rd Canning Town, West Ham, Essex ( now Greater London ), and began contributing scripts to comedy shows in 1955, starting with Great Scott-It's Maynard !.

The chain began in 1958 as a Greater Los Angeles area chain of " Pronto Market " convenience stores.

Ríos began playing tennis at the age of 11 at the Sport Francés golf club in Vitacura ( Greater Santiago ), adjacent to his house.

In 1938 Okuyama finished his studies with Takeda and published a martial art text called Daito-ryu Goshinjutsu ( The Daito System of Self-Protection ), later founded the Dai-Nippon Shidokai ( Greater Japan Way of the Samurai Association ) and began teaching what he called Daito Hiden Shido ( Secret Daito-Ryu Way of the Samurai ).

They completed the conquest of the Kingdom of Georgia in 1238 ; however, the Mongol Empire began to attack western parts of Greater Armenia which was under the Seljuks the next year.

Test transmissions for the new Greater London Radio began as soon as Radio London closed.