On their 1950 tour of New Zealand and Australia they also adopted the nickname British Lions, first used by British and South African journalists on the 1924 South African tour, after the lion emblem on their ties, the emblem on their jerseys having been dropped in favour of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions.

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.

For the 2005 tour to New Zealand the Lions management commissioned a song, " The Power of Four ", although it met with little support amongst Lions fans at the matches and was not used on the 2009 Tour.

It is the 1924 tour that is credited as being the first in which the team were referred to as " the Lions ", the irony being that it was on this tour that the single lion-rampant crest was replaced with the forerunner of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions, that is still worn today.

This tour may have marked the occasion when the team first became known as " the Lions ".

In 1927 a short nine-game series took place in Argentina, with the Lions winning all nine encounters ; the tour did however become a financial success for Argentine rugby.

In 1936 the Lions visited Argentina for the second time, winning all ten of their matches and only conceding nine points in the whole tour.

The Lions performed well in the remaining All Black tests though they lost all three, the team did not lose another non-test in the New Zealand leg of the tour.

The 1959 tour to Australia and New Zealand marked once again a very successful tour for the Lions, who only lost six of their 35 fixtures.

The 1962 tour to South Africa saw the Lions still win 16 of their 25 games, but did not fare well against the Springboks, losing three of the four tests.

For the 1966 tour to Australia and New Zealand John Robins became the first Lions Coach, and the trip started off very well for the Lions, who stormed through Australia, winning five non-tests and drawing one ; and most notably defeating Australia in two tests as well.

The Lions however experienced mixed results during the New Zealand leg of the tour, as well as losing all of the tests against the All Blacks.

The 1968 tour of South Africa saw the Lions win 15 of their 16 provincial matches, but the team actually lost three tests against the Springboks and drew one.

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 1977 tour to New Zealand saw the Lions drop only one non-test out of 21 games, a loss to a Universities side.

In August 1977 the British Lions made a stopover in Fiji on the way home from their tour of New Zealand.

A tour to South Africa by the Lions was anticipated in 1986.

However, the invitation for the Lions to tour South Africa was never accepted because of controversy surrounding Apartheid.

The Lions tour to Australia in 1989 was a short affair, being only 12 matches in total.

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

So powerful was the attribution of " the Lions " nickname that three heraldic versions of the animal returned as the jersey badge in 1930.

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 easily won both tests against Australia and lost the first three tests against the All Blacks, but did find victory ( 9 – 6 ) in the final test.

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 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.

Sanders was held to just 59 total yards, and linebacker Wilber Marshall sacked Lions quarterback Erik Kramer three times.

The future of the channel was put into question when it was announced that three of its major suppliers of films Paramount Pictures, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and Lions Gate Entertainment, as well as their respected subsidiaries ( Paramount Vantage and United Artists ), would be teaming up together to form a new premium movie channel.

Lions are hunted by three methods: baiting, stalking, and hounding.

It includes three elementary schools-Dixie Lions, Vallecito Eagles, and Mary E. Silveira Stars.

Pavement, a band hailing from nearby Stockton, immortalizes the town in " Feed ' Em To The ( Linden ) Lions ," song three on their 1992 EP, Watery, Domestic.

There are now two successful bar / restaurants, a supper club used for many special events, a new bank, three resorts, a seasonal campground, a nine hole golf course, Volunteer Fire Department, First Responders, Lions Club, Senior Citizen's Club, 4-H club, Coffee Ladies Club, and the Forada Birthday Club.

Novinger Renewal Inc., Novinger Planned Progress, and the Novinger Lions Club are three civic organizations.

* Greenwood has produced one Major League Baseball player, Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher, Cy Buker, and three National Football League players, Larry Krause with the Green Bay Packers, Harland Carl with the Chicago Bears, and Bill Miklich with the New York Giants, and Detroit Lions.

His next three films were Lonelyhearts ( 1958 ), The Young Lions ( 1958 ), and Suddenly, Last Summer ( 1959 ).

File: Incense taiwan temple fu dog. jpg | The Chinese Dragon, Guardian Lions and incense comprise three symbols within traditional Chinese culture.

The club ran into financial difficulties in the 1980s after decades of poor on-field performance and was forced to merge its playing operations with the Brisbane Bears at the end of the 1996 season to form the Brisbane Lions, the latter of which won three consecutive premierships between 2001 and 2003.

Great Cats is separated into two enclosures, one houses a pride of ten African Lions ( a male named Luke, two females named Nababiep and Shera, and seven younger lions named John, Fahari, Zuri, Lelie, Baruti, Aslan and Lusaka ), and three Sumatran Tigers ( a male named Guntur and two females named Soyono and Damai ).

Swamp Rat XIV was however so successful that in 1971, Garlits won two of his next three Top Fuel Eliminator titles ( the Winternats and Bakersfield ), plus a runner-up at Lions, all in the new car.

The team would go on to only win three games during the season, against the Brooklyn Lions 16-6, the Dayton Triangles 16-0, and the Canton Bulldogs 16-7 in a game that ended early due to darkness and a lack of field lights.

Today, what was once the Dolphin's Lagoon is now the Sea Lions ' Rock, with three sea lions ( Clara, Kelpie and Pablo ) providing the entertainment for the current presentation labeled " Swim, Slide, and Splash!