The word curling first appears in print in 1620 in Perth, in the preface and the verses of a poem by Henry Adamson.

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 world championship for curling was limited to men and was known as the " Scotch Cup ", held in Falkirk and Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1959.

Thus, the first Olympic medals in curling, which at the time was played outside, were awarded for the 1924 Winter Games, with the gold medal won by Great Britain and Ireland, two silver medals by Sweden, and the bronze by France.

In the first of Romania's group stage matches, against Colombia, Hagi scored one of the most memorable goals of that tournament, curling in a 40-yard lob over Colombian goalkeeper Oscar Córdoba who was caught out of position.

Canada beat Denmark in the women's curling final, securing the latter their first Winter Olympic medal ever.

The town is also home to the North West Castle, built in 1820 and the now first hotel in the world with its own indoor curling ice rink.

The town boasts the first hotel in the world with an indoor curling ice rink ( North West Castle ), and was the birthplace of Hammy McMillan, a World Champion curler, who continues to live in the town today.

For the first time, Canada won gold in an " official " sport at an Olympic Games hosted at home, having failed to do so at both the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal and the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary ( although Canada won a gold medal in the " demonstration-sport " of curling in Calgary ).

St. Moritz developed rapidly in the late nineteenth century and the first electric light in Switzerland was installed in 1878 at the Kulm Hotel and the first curling tournament on the continent held in 1880.

Kilsyth has claims to be the place where the winter sport of curling was first constituted.

The town had the world's first curling club which survives to this day.

The world's first recorded curling club was founded in Kilsyth in 1716.

In 1950 Hunter founded the first curling bonspiel to be held on artificial ice, the Quaker Car Curling Bonspiel.

He only managed two goals during the 81 / 82 season, his first coming against Brian Clough's Nottingam Forest side and his second a spectacular curling effort from the edge of the box against Southampton.

It is the first curling event in Olympic history.

He scored his first goal against Reading a flicked on header from a curling Keith Treacy cross.

On June 15, 2006, the CCA announced that TSN would obtain exclusive rights to curling broadcasts in Canada as of the 2008-09 season, shutting the CBC out of the championship weekend for the first time in 40-plus years.

In the first game of the Aztex season, Johnson hit the goalpost with a 20-yard curling shot, but Lawrence Olum scored with the rebound, helping the Aztex to a 2 – 0 victory against Montreal Impact.

This official confirmation was the culmination of an investigative campaign begun by the Glasgow-based newspaper The Herald, on behalf of the families of the eight Scots who won the first curling Olympic Gold medal in Chamonix, France in 1924.

In November 2004 the club was able to base itself at England's first ever dedicated curling rink when Rink, near Tunbridge Wells in Kent, opened to the public.

Sparkes's first major curling championship success came when he won the 1957 Alberta Schoolboys.

Pete Fenson led the U. S. Curling team to a bronze medal, their first curling medal ever won.

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.