The first convention was held in 1917, the first year of the club ’ s existence, in Dallas, Texas.

: He said, " Everybody has a club or an association or some kind — lumber jacks, undertakers, rug weavers, even garbage collectors — so I don ’ t see why we can ’ t have one, too.

On March 3, 2012, Benson addressed the bounty payments controversy on the Saints ' website, stating, " I have been made aware of the NFL ’ s findings relative to the “ Bounty Rule ” and how it relates to our club.

In March 2011, the Saints Hall of Fame selection committee selected the franchise ’ s all-time team as the club heads into its 45th year of competition ( 2011 ).

One view is that the club was connected to the St Mary ’ s Church of England Cricket Club, now the St Mary's Anglican Church North Melbourne, whose colours – blue and white – are reflected in the Club's colour's today.

Information on the club ’ s first ever match is sketchy, but it is known that it took place in Royal Park ( which served as the clubs home ground until 1882 ) and that the ball used in the match was purchased by a local resident called Tom Jacks, who sold some roofing iron to pay for it.

Four years later the club adopted the traditional uniform of blue and white vertical stripes at the insistence of the VFA, who wanted a visible contrast between Geelong's and Hotham ’ s uniforms.

* The industrialisation of the locality had drained the club ’ s income streams

Two conditions were attached to North ’ s entry: one was that the club had to change their uniform and the other was that they had to give up their recruiting grounds to the Essendon Football Club.

The first alleged use of the specific name " Old Fashioned " was for a Bourbon whiskey cocktail in the 1880s, at the Pendennis Club, a gentlemen ’ s club in Louisville, Kentucky.

Her half-brother the artist and writer Quentin Bell eventually became the club ’ s secretary, and later wrote his aunt ’ s biography.

These coffee-house clubs soon became hotbeds of political scandal-mongering and intriguing, and in 1675 King Charles II issued a proclamation which ran: “ His Majesty hath thought fit and necessary that coffee houses be ( for the future ) put down and suppressed ,” because “ in such houses divers false, malitious and scandalous reports are devised and spread abroad to the Defamation of his Majesty ’ s Government and to the Disturbance of Peace and Quiet of the Realm .” So unpopular was this proclamation that it was almost instantly found necessary to withdraw it, and by Anne ’ s reign the coffee-house club was a feature of England ’ s social life.

Each giant wields a distinctive weapon — an iron club in Ereuthalion ’ s case, a massive bronze spear in Goliath ’ s ; each giant, clad in armor, comes out of the enemy ’ s massed array to challenge all the warriors in the opposing army ; in each case the seasoned warriors are afraid, and the challenge is taken up by a stripling, the youngest in his family ( Nestor is the twelfth son of Neleus, David the seventh or eighth son of Jesse ).

It also illustrates the intense way in which the Feyenoord supporters experience their club ’ s matches.

The uses of these islands vary: Davids ' Island, the former location of the U. S. Army ’ s Fort Slocum, is currently unoccupied but is slated for use as passive parkland ; Glen Island is a County park for passive and active recreation ; Huckleberry Island is largely undeveloped and has one of the largest rookeries for some shore bird species in western Long Island Sound ; Columbia Island was the former site of CBS television broadcast antennas and is currently unoccupied ; Echo Island is used by a private yacht club ; Execution Rocks is the site of a 19th century lighthouse listed on the National Register of Historic Places ; Pea Island is owned by Huguenot Yacht Club but remains undeveloped ; Goose Island is undeveloped ; Clifford, Harrison and Tank Islands are part of a nature preserve and city park ; and Oak and Pine Islands are used as private residences.

The print was investigated by the museum ’ s curator after he heard an anecdote from a cinema club manager expressing surprise at the length of a print of Metropolis he had viewed.

On April 13, 1984, the 21st anniversary of his first career hit, Rose doubled off of the Phillies ’ Jerry Koosman for his 4, 000th career hit, becoming only the second player in the 4000 hit club ( joining Ty Cobb ).

The Bondi Surf Bathers Life Saving Club also claims to be the “ world ’ s first life saving club ”.

Rumours of a reunion for Veronica's annual Golden Oldie-festival appeared to be untrue ; instead Henny and the two Jans joined Ernst and Joost during the encore of CCC Inc .' s 25th anniversary concert at the Melkweg club in Amsterdam.

Yashin ’ s club team-mate, rival and mentor was Alexei ‘ Tiger ’ Khomich, the keeper of the Soviet national team, who had become famous for his role in Dynamo Moscow ’ s British tour.

Obviously, if this club is going to move from second to first in the American League, it will have to show improvement someplace.

I hope the man who plans to sit on his hands until the emergency comes will have a change of heart, will get busy and be the first member of our `` plus-one '' shelter club.

The club that overcame the worst start in a comparable period to win the pennant was New York's '51 Giants, who dropped 11 of their first 13.

Jean Fardulli's Blue Angel is the first top local club to import that crazy new dance, the Twist.

* 1974 – Punk Rock pioneers The Ramones play their first show in a local New York club named CBGB.

Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

Dunn seemed quite positive about being traded to a ball club in first place in its division in August.

However, when, under manager Jack Kirwan, the club got promoted to the top flight of Dutch football for the first time in 1911 ( then the Eerste Klasse or ' First Class ', later named the Eredivisie ), Ajax were forced to change their colours because Sparta Rotterdam already had exactly the same outfit.

Under the management of Luigi Barbesino, the Roman club came close to their first title in 1935 – 36 ; finishing just one point behind champions Bologna.

The second scudetto did not elude Roma for much longer ; in 1982 – 83 the Roman club won the title for the first time in 41 years, amidst celebrations in the capital.

The ANFC ran the Championship of Australia, the first national club competition, which commenced in 1888 and saw clubs from different states compete on an even playing field.

The new rules mean that rather than representing the state of their adopted club, players would return to play for the state they were first recruited in.

This description prompted the first suggestions of regular interstate club competition and of overcoming the dichotomy and establishing a national league.

Bursaspor have won the league title in 2009-010 for the first time, becoming the 2nd anatolian club to ever wint the league title after Trabzonspor.

The first professional black baseball club, the Cuban Giants, was organized in 1885.

The Red Sox logo worn on uniforms in 1908, announcing the team's first official nicknameIn, the upstart American League established a competing club in Boston.

One of the American League's eight charter franchises in 1901, it spent its first year as a major league club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the Milwaukee Brewers before moving to St. Louis to become the St. Louis Browns.

During Selig's tenure as club president, the Brewers participated in postseason play in 1981, when the team finished first in the American League East during the second half of the season, and in 1982, when the team made it to the World Series, under the leadership of future Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor.

During the off-season the club hired Leigh Matthews, who in 1990 had delivered Collingwood its first premiership since 1958.

The club won its first AFL Premiership by defeating Essendon 15. 18 ( 108 ) to 12. 10 ( 82 ) in the 2001 AFL Grand Final.

The first Burns club, known as The Mother Club, was founded in Greenock in 1801 by merchants born in Ayrshire, some of whom had known Burns.

Cruzeiro Esporte Clube ( Crux / Southern Cross Sports Club ) is a first class football ( soccer ) club in Brazil.

Kilsyth Curling Club claims to be the first club in the world, having been formally constituted in 1716 ; it is still in existence today.

The first curling club in the United States was established in 1830, and the game was introduced to Switzerland and Sweden before the end of the 19th century, also by Scots.

The first curling club in the United States was organized in 1830 only 30 miles from Detroit, at Orchard Lake, Michigan.