The Lions won all of their games that did not have test status except for the matches against Auckland, Wellington and Canterbury ; they did however lose three of their four test matches against the All Blacks, winning the first test 6 – 3 ..

Despite having lost the test series to South Africa by game three, the Lions won the final test.

The Lions won the opening four fixtures before losing to Otago and Southland, but succeeded in holding the All Blacks to a nine-all draw.

The Lions won all their games in Australia except for their final fixture against a New South Wales XV in Newcastle.

The Lions would only lose a single match on the rest of the tour, and won the test series against New Zealand, winning and drawing the last two games, to take the series two wins to one.

The Lions did however lose the first three tests to South Africa, winning the last one, though the series had already been won by the Springboks.

The tour was very successful for the Lions, who won all eight non-tests and won the test series against Australia, two to one.

The Lions won the test series 2 – 1.

The Lions ' 2005 tour to New Zealand, coached by 2003 England world cup winning coach Clive Woodward, won all seven games against provincial teams however suffered heavy defeats in all three tests and were narrowly defeated by the New Zealand Maori team.

The Lions won the third Test 28 – 9 at Ellis Park, and the series finished 2 – 1 to South Africa.

Lions utility player Shaun Hart won the Norm Smith Medal as best on ground in the Grand Final.

In 2002, the Lions won back-to-back Premierships when they defeated Collingwood 9. 12. 66 to 10. 1

In 2012 the Lions won the Northern Conference and overall NEAFL premierships.

The Browns, who lost the last game of the regular season to the Lions only a week before, won their second NFL crown 56 – 10.

The Lions have won four NFL Championships, the last in 1957, giving the club the second-longest NFL championship drought behind the Arizona Cardinals.

Both the Lions and Browns won NFL championships before the Super Bowl era.

In advertising the team has also won all the major awards including Cannes Lions, British Television Advertising Awards, Clios, D & AD and many more.

House of Leaves, Danielewski's innovative first novel, has continued to gain a global cult following and won numerous awards, including the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award.

This was followed up with a 10-point win over the Brisbane Lions at the Gabba where the Demons had not won since 2006.

The Ponder Lions also won the 2A state title in 2001 behind championship game MVP Lance Boxell.

The Lions won the 3A state championship in 1990 and were ranked number 1 all year.

Vernon High School's first team state championship came in the 1984-1985 season as the Lady Lions won the 3A girls basketball state title.

During the game, in which he played in the centre of midfield, he also set up a scoring chance for Darren Bent as the Young Lions won 2 – 0.

To avoid the ambiguity of the term British, and to more emphatically associate the team's identity with both the United Kingdom and Ireland, from the 2001 tour of Australia the name British and Irish Lions has been used.

The tradition is often carried out at other sporting events, both professional or amateur, and even sometimes at non-sporting events where the anthem is played, throughout the Baltimore / Washington area and beyond, notably at Baltimore Ravens, Washington Capitals, Georgetown Hoyas, Maryland Terrapins, Virginia Cavaliers, Virginia Tech Hokies, West Virginia Mountaineers, Penn State Nittany Lions and Aberdeen Ironbirds games.

The 1952 and 1953 seasons followed a similar pattern, with Cleveland reaching the championship game but losing both times to the Detroit Lions.

Within a few years, with a change of coach, playing list and club president, Collingwood reached and lost consecutive grand finals in a close contest in 2002 and a " blow out " in 2003, both to the Brisbane Lions.

National Football League standouts Gale Sayers with the Chicago Bears and Barry Sanders of the Detroit Lions both were born and raised in Wichita.

both Marlboro Middle School home of the Hawks ( 1, 145 ) and Marlboro Memorial Middle School home of the Monarch Lions ( 1, 063 ) served grades 6-8.

The Kountze Lions ' Varsity Basketball Team has brought home State titles, including the years of: 1970, 2004, 2005, and 2007 in both 2A & 3A of UIL standings.

And the NFL's Torry Holt ( Rams & Jaguars ) and his brother Terrence Holt ( Lions, Cardinals, Bears, Panthers, Saints ) are both natives of Gibsonville.

He was a charter member of both the Denver City Lions Club and the Chamber of Commerce.

During his career, he was often compared to Detroit Lions Hall of Fame running back Barry Sanders, as both men were extremely successful for their respective teams and combined for 8 rushing titles during the 1990s.

Other roles during this period that displayed the actor's wide range included that of a crew chief in Days of Thunder ( 1990 ), a retiring cop in Falling Down ( 1992 ), an Hispanic barber in Wrestling Ernest Hemingway ( 1993 ), a New York tabloid editor in The Paper ( 1994 ), a rural doctor in Phenomenon ( 1996 ), an abusive father in 1996's Slingblade, an astronaut in Deep Impact ( 1998 ), a trail boss in Open Range ( 2003 ), a soccer coach in the comedy Kicking & Screaming, an old free spirit in Secondhand Lions ( 2003 ), a Las Vegas poker champion in Lucky You and a New York police chief in We Own the Night ( both 2007 ).

Her output as head of UA was two films, both starring Cruise, Lions for Lambs and Valkyrie, the latter of which, despite mixed reviews, was successful at the box office thanks to $ 117 million in foreign revenue.

Coinciding with the search for an illustrator and hurrying to complete the novel, Ainsworth was asked to write for the magazine The Lions of London, but could not find the time to work on both projects and so attempted to finish the novel.

He is the only player to have captained both the British and Irish Lions rugby union side and the Great Britain rugby league teams.

He was both an influential researcher and teacher, with students such as Bernard Malgrange, Jacques-Louis Lions, François Bruhat and Alexander Grothendieck.

Drafted in Professional Football by both the Detroit Lions of the National Football League and the New York Jets of the American Football League in the third round of the 1964 draft, he joined the Jets and became an immediate starter and perennial All-AFL selection at defensive end.

In 2007, all of the finals Network Ten were assigned to were shown live into both markets although neither the Lions or Swans were participating, thus putting it head to head with the NRL finals which were aired on the Nine Network.

In her essay, “ The Wife of Bath and the Painting of Lions ,” Mary Carruthers describes the relationship that existed between love and economics for both medieval men and women.

Botha was best known for extremely accurate ( both left-and right-footed ) kicking, which earned him the nickname " Nasty Booter " from the British press when the British Lions toured South Africa in 1980.

In both 1952 and 1953, Cleveland lost championships to the Detroit Lions, who were then on the rise after decades of mediocrity.

Drafted by both the Detroit Lions of the National Football League and the Los Angeles Chargers of the AFL, Faison signed with the Chargers as a first-round pick immediately after the conclusion of the East-West Shrine Game on December 31, 1960.

Like other jellyfish, Lions manes are capable of both sexual reproduction in the medusa stage and asexual reproduction in the polyp stage.

On 8 September 2006, the Golden Lions Rugby Union, the company that operates both the Golden Lions and the Cats, announced that the team would be known in the future as the Lions, and unveiled a new logo .< ref >