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Lions and won
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 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 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.

Lions and all
The New Zealand side, by then already synonymous with the appellation " All Blacks ", had an all black kit that clashed with the Lions ' blue.
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 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 Lions postulated that a South African referee would probably not send off all of the Lions if they all retaliated against " blatant thuggery ".
The original alignment system ( which grouped all characters and creatures into ' Law ', ' Neutrality ' and ' Chaos ') was derived from the novel Three Hearts and Three Lions by Poul Anderson.
* North America: Dire Wolf, Smilodon, Giant Beaver, Ground Sloth, Giant Imperial Mammoth ( Mammuthus imperator ), Jeffersonian Mammoth ( Mammuthus jeffersonii ), Columbian Mammoth ( Mammuthus columbi ), Woolly Mammoth, Mastodons, Giant Short-Faced Bear, American Cheetah, Scimitar Cats ( Homotherium ), American Camels, American Horses, and American Lions all become extinct.
After applied with such system, the Seibu Lions ( now Saitama Seibu Lions ), Chiba Lotte Marines and Hokkaido Nippon Ham Fighters, which claimed the Pacific League Champion under such system, were all able to clinch the following Japan Series in that season.
At the beginning of 1985 Norman announced that he and his second wife, Sarah Finch, who was now pregnant with their son, Michael, would return to the US to live, and that he and the Young Lions would undertake a 200 city tour of all fifty of the United States during 1985 and 1986.
Former players include Blair Mayne DSO, Phil Matthews and Nigel Carr, all former Ireland and British Lions players.
* Most fumble recoveries for touchdowns: 3 ; Detroit Lions ( 2 ) vs. Minnesota Vikings ( 1 ), December 9, 1962 ( 2 own, 1 opponents '); Green Bay Packers ( 2 ) vs. Dallas Cowboys ( 1 ), November 29, 1964 ( all opponents '); Oakland Raiders ( 2 ) vs. Buffalo Bills ( 1 ), December 24, 1967 ( all opponents '); Oakland Raiders ( 2 ) vs. Philadelphia Eagles ( 1 ), September 24, 1995 ( all opponents '); Tennessee Titans ( 2 ) vs. Pittsburgh Steelers ( 1 ), January 2, 2000 ( all opponents ').

Lions and their
Originally, poorly organised Lions teams regularly suffered defeat at the hands of their hosts, but by 1955 the tourists took the matches seriously enough to obtain a 2 2 draw in South Africa.
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.
Although the lion had been dropped from the jersey, the players had worn the lion motif on their ties as they arrived in South Africa, which led the press and public referring to them as " the Lions ".
Two years later the Lions toured in South Africa, winning more than half of their normal matches.
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.
The Lions also played a test against Canada on their way home, winning 19 to 8 in Toronto.
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 management of the Lions concluded that the Springboks dominated their opponents with physical aggression.
The Lions decided " to get their retaliation in first " with the infamous " 99 call ".
In August 1977 the British Lions made a stopover in Fiji on the way home from their tour of New Zealand.
The Lions, and their predecessor teams, have often played games against other nearby countries on tour.
In their first year in the AFL the Lions made the finals, finishing in eighth position after being defeated by the St Kilda Football Club in a Qualifying Final.
The Browns finished 8 4 in 1952, but lost that year's championship game 17-7 after a muffed punt, several Lions defensive stands and a 67-yard touchdown run by Doak Walker scuttled their chances.
In 1994, every NFL team wore throwback jerseys, and the Lions ' were similar to the jerseys used during their 1935 championship season.
The Lions also wore ' 50s-style jerseys during their traditional Thanksgiving Day games from 2001 to 2004 as the NFL encouraged teams to wear throwback jerseys on Thanksgiving Day.
Although the white jerseys of the Minnesota Vikings at the time also had a similar striping pattern and continued as such ( as well as the throwbacks the New England Patriots wore in the Thanksgiving game against the Detroit Lions in 2002, though the Patriots later wore the same throwbacks in 2009 with truncated stripes and in 2010 became their official alternate uniform ), the Colts and most college teams with this striping pattern did not make this adjustment.

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