Alumni was the most successful team in the amateur era of Argentine football, winning 10 of the 14 league championships contested, being considered the first great football team.

* 1970 – Patricia Palinkas became the first woman to play professionally in an American football game

The local football team Alemannia Aachen had a short run-out in Germany's first division, after its promotion in 2006.

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.

Australian football has attracted more overall interest among Australians ( as measured by the Sweeney Sports report ) than any other football code, and, when compared with all sports throughout the nation, has consistently ranked first in the winter reports, and most recently third behind cricket and swimming in summer.

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

The team was founded in the 1940s as a charter franchise in the All-America Football Conference ( AAFC ), with Paul Brown, the team's namesake and a pioneering figure in professional football, as its first coach.

Brown, who had built an impressive record as coach of a Massillon, Ohio high school team and brought the Buckeyes their first national championship, at the time was serving in the U. S. Navy and coached the football team at Great Lakes Naval Station near Chicago.

This included the 1948 season, in which the Browns became the first unbeaten and untied team in professional football history, 24 years before the NFL's 1972 Miami Dolphins duplicated the feat.

Although Carolina first played Tampa Bay in 1995, their rivalry did not start until 2003, when DT Brentson Buckner claimed fellow DT Kris Jenkins was the best defensive tackle in football, angering Tampa Bay DT Warren Sapp.

When representatives of Fulham first came across the land, in 1894, it was so overgrown that it took two years to be made suitable for football to be played on it.

The Korea Republic national football team have also used the ground twice in recent years for international friendlies, first against Greece in February 2007 and then against Serbia in November 2009.

It was through college football play that American football rules first gained popularity in the United States.

The first documented gridiron football match was a game played at University College, a college of the University of Toronto, November 9, 1861.

The game gradually gained a following, and the Montreal Football Club was formed in 1868, the first recorded non-university football club in Canada.

The first ever intercollegiate football game between two American teams played under rules which would eventually become the rules under which modern American football is governed occurred between Princeton and Rutgers University in 1869.

The completion of the first ever American football season came as a result of only two total games being played.

A game which modern audiences would more readily recognize as American football occurred six years after the first ever game and occurred between Harvard University and Tufts University on June 4, 1875.

This first game was a lot like rugby but much closer to the modern day version of football than soccer.

An 1869 game of intercollegiate " football " between Rutgers and Princeton is often cited as the first intercollegiate American football game, however it was an unfamiliar ancestor of today's college football, as it was played under 6-year-old soccer-style Association rules.

In our own practice, to have the last `` intonaco '' plaster coat thick enough to match, and at the same time to avoid fine cracks in drying, we found that it had to be put on in two layers, letting the first set awhile before applying the second.

Karpov defeated Lev Polugaevsky by the score of + 3 = 5 in the first Candidates ' match, earning the right to face former champion Boris Spassky in the semifinal round.

Fischer insisted that the match be the first to ten wins ( draws not counting ), but that the champion would retain the crown if the score was tied 9 – 9.

The series is named after a satirical obituary published in a British newspaper, The Sporting Times, in 1882 after a match at The Oval in which Australia beat England on an English ground for the first time.

The first Test match between England and Australia was played in 1877, though the Ashes legend started later, after the ninth Test, played in 1882.

It was the first time since 1894 – 95 that a team following on had won a Test match.

In the next series on English soil in 2013, Durham's Chester-le-Street ground will host its first Ashes Test match.

* 1904 – The first international rugby league match is played between England and an Other Nationalities team ( Welsh & Scottish players ) in Central Park, Wigan, England.

The first intercolonial match had been played between Victoria and South Australia on 2 August 1879.

* 1827 – John Walker, an English chemist, sells the first friction match that he had invented the previous year.

The first match of the Bill MacLagan undefeated tour of South Africa

At the start of a match, the shuttlecock is cast and the side towards which the shuttlecock is pointing serves first.

On 6 January 1681, the first recorded boxing match took place in Britain when Christopher Monck, 2nd Duke of Albemarle ( and later Lieutenant Governor of Jamaica ) engineered a bout between his butler and his butcher with the latter winning the prize.

Some competitions use a " set " scoring system, with the first to seven points awarded a set in a best-or-three or best-of-five set match.

That same year Lara amassed 688 runs in the three match away Test series against Sri Lanka making three centuries, and one fifty – including the double century and a century in the first and second innings of the 3rd Test Match at the Sinhalese Sports Ground, equating to 42 % of the team's runs in that series.

Lara was reappointed as captain against the touring Australians in 2003, and struck 110 in his first Test match back in charge, showing a return to stellar performance.

On the fourth day of the first Test match at Antigua Recreation Ground, St John's, Antigua during India's tour of West Indies, 2006, Mahendra Singh Dhoni's flick off Dave Mohammed to the midwicket region was caught by Daren Ganga.

Nowadays Boxing Day is popular in Australia as the first day of a Test cricket match held at the MCG.

In dovetailing fashion, all programs of all lengths are run, until enough have halted to jointly contribute enough probability to match these first N bits.

In their first match up of the 2011 season, Cam Newton set an NFL record for most rushing touchdowns in a season for QB with 13.

Charlton's first Football League match was against Exeter City in August 1921, which they won 1 – 0.

The first match at this site, now known as the club's current ground The Valley, was in September 1919.

The first 1541 drives produced in 1982 had a label on the front reading VIC-1541 and had a white case to match the VIC-20.