In a column in the popular magazine Harper's Weekly, sports columnist Caspar Whitney had applied the nickname ; the sobriquet was appropriate because, by 1892, Camp had almost single-handedly fashioned the game of modern American football.

Patkin was the third " officially " crowned Clown Prince of Baseball, after Al Schacht and Jackie Price, though that sobriquet has also been applied to St. Louis Browns third baseman Arlie Latham among others.

The sobriquet occurs in the superscription at 1: 1 and in 3: 1, although it is highly unlikely that the word refers to the same character in both of these references.

It was on these campaigns he earned the sobriquet " The Pale Death of the Saracens ".

In all these points he was hopelessly beaten, and in the last of them he was in a " minority of one "— a sobriquet which stuck to him throughout life — whereupon he seceded from parliamentary life for five years.

He gained the sobriquet " Honest Tom " for his forthright and straightforward manner, although these same qualities would earn him the occasional disapproval of fellow politicians and the electorate, and caused his defeat at the polls in 1871.

Because of these innovations, they are sometimes referred to as the founders of the " third school " of soukous, while they " rebel " attitude, which resembled that of the hippie movement, earned them the sobriquet of " Zaire's Rolling Stones ".

Their wood and iron construction earned these velocipedes the sobriquet Boneshakers.

Desdichado's side is soon hard pressed and he himself beset by multiple foes, when a knight who had until then taken no part in the battle, thus earning the sobriquet Le Noir Faineant ( or the Black Sluggard ), rides to Desdichado's rescue.

The " Black Prince " sobriquet is first found in writing in two manuscript notes made by the antiquary John Leland in the 1530s or early 1540s: in one, Leland refers in English to " the blake prince "; in the other, he refers in Latin to " Edwardi Principis cog: Nigri ".

This sobriquet was chosen not only for the yearbook, but also became the name by which the University is now known.

Richelieu is also known by the sobriquet l ' Éminence rouge (" the Red Eminence "), from the red shade of a cardinal's clerical dress and the style " eminence " as a cardinal.

Ladislaus III was killed in a bold attempt to capture the sultan, earning the sobriquet Warneńczyk ( of Varna in Polish ; he is also known as Várnai Ulászló in Hungarian or Ladislaus Varnensis in Latin ).

His sobriquet, in contemporary Latin Viscardus and Old French Viscart, is often rendered " the Resourceful ", " the Cunning ", " the Wily ", " the Fox ", or " the Weasel ".

The phrase " the lucky country ", coined by Donald Horne, is a sobriquet used to describe Australia in terms of weather, lifestyle and history.

This sobriquet, traditionally bestowed by his successor upon his acceptance of the mantle of leadership, is used as the title for his collected writings, which are published posthumously ; by extension, it is also used to refer to the rebbe himself.

The adolescent Elisabeth, who had by then received the sobriquet “ Else ”, is said to have displayed little interest in the young man who was five years her senior, and therefore declined his first proposal of marriage.

A sobriquet is an allusion: by metonymy one aspect of a person or other referent is selected to identify it, and it is this shared aspect that makes an allusion evocative.

He was a remarkably handsome man, and inordinately fond of taking a conspicuous part in court ceremonial ; his vanity, which earned him the sobriquet of " the proud duke ," was a byword among his contemporaries and was the subject of numerous anecdotes ; Macaulay ’ s description of him as " a man in whom the pride of birth and rank amounted almost to a disease ," is well known.

Contemporary evidence for the fairness of this sobriquet is mixed, covenanting traditions and monuments hold Claverhouse directly responsible for the deaths of covenanters.

Although sildenafil ( Viagra ), vardenafil ( Levitra ), and tadalafil ( Cialis ) all work by inhibiting PDE5, tadalafils pharmacologic distinction is its longer half-life ( 17. 50 hours ) – compared to Viagra ( 4. 0 – 5. 0 hours ) and Levitra ( 4. 0 – 5. 0 hours ) – resulting in longer duration of action, and so partly responsible for " The Weekend Pill " sobriquet.

The name of Rastignac, meanwhile, has become an iconic sobriquet in the French language ; a " Rastignac " is synonymous with a person willing to climb the social ladder at any cost.

The epithet aghmashenebeli ( აღმაშენებელი ), which is translated as " the Builder " ( in the sense of " built completely "), " the Rebuilder ", or " the Restorer ", first appears as the sobriquet of David in the charter issued in the name of " King of Kings Bagrat " in 1452 and becomes firmly affixed to him in the works of the 17th-and 18th-century historians such as Parsadan Gorgijanidze, Beri Egnatashvili and Prince Vakhushti.

He is commonly nicknamed dottor Sottile, ( which means " Doctor Subtilis ", the sobriquet of the Scottish Medieval philosopher John Duns Scotus, a reference to his political subtlety ).

His name means ' Sky-king ' in Sindarin, and he is given a sobriquet " young and swift ".

Dundas ' sobriquet The Valley Town is used as the title of a song on the album Mountain Meadows by the band Elliott Brood ; one of the band members, Casey Laforet, spent part of his childhood in Dundas.

He came to the throne when his predecessor, King Cadwallon ap Cadfan, was killed in battle, and his primary notability is in having gained the disrespectful sobriquet Cadafael Cadomedd ( fully translated into ).

In the Kevin Smith's 2010 revamp of the continuity, Kato is depicted, in modern times, as the elderly but still physically fit valet of the late Britt Reid, killed by a yakuza mobster going by the Black Hornet sobriquet.

He then turned to face Thatcher: " The Prime Minister, shortly after she came into office, received a sobriquet as the " Iron Lady ".

The Oval has been labelled with the sobriquet " the Grand Old Lady " in recognition of the significant role the ground has played in the development of modern sport.

Wei Shuo (, 272 – 349 ), courtesy name Mouyi ( 茂猗 ), sobriquet He ' nan ( 和南 ), commonly addressed just as Lady Wei ( 衛夫人 ), was a Chinese calligrapher of Eastern Jin, who established consequential rules about the regular script.

He strenuously opposed the " parlement Maupeou ", devised by Chancellor Maupeou to replace the old judiciary bodies in 1771, refusing to plead before it, an act that earned him the sobriquet of the " Virgin of the palace ".

He entered the new radio field to become one of the main figures in the " Golden Age of Mexican Radio ," beginning with humorous and social criticism programs, using the sobriquet El Guasón del Teclado ( The Joker of the Keyboard ).

From the point of view of popularity the best-known member of the Commission was Walter Camp, the Yale athlete whose sobriquet was `` the father of American football ''.

`` Smilin' Mike '' was the sobriquet Washington gave him.

This earned him the affectionate sobriquet, " boots the bishop ," from his parishioners.

His sobriquet refers to his conquests in Northern Africa.

Alfonso the Battler earned his sobriquet in the Reconquista.

After winning a seat in the Senate representing the mining north in 1915, he earned the sobriquet " Lion of Tarapacá.

Espartero, operating on his popularity as a war hero and his sobriquet " Pacifier of Spain ", demanded liberal reforms from Maria Cristina.

German troops coined the sobriquet Stalin's organ (), after Soviet leader Joseph Stalin for its visual resemblance to a church musical organ and alluding to the sound of the weapon's rockets.

Mead dismissively characterized their union as " my student marriage " in Blackberry Winter, a sobriquet with which Cressman took vigorous issue.

Traffic was supposedly intense, Sardinia bearing the sobriquet: the granary of Rome.

The media have sensationalized him with the sobriquet, " the Devil's advocate ", and he himself has contributed to his " notorious " public persona by such acts as titling his autobiography The Brilliant Bastard and giving provocative replies in interviews.

His stature as the medium's first superstar earned Berle the sobriquet " Mr. Television ".

" As the foregoing source indicates, " Copper Island " has sometimes been used as a sobriquet for Michigan's " copper country.

Born at Trieste, Austria ( today Italy ), and known as " Prince Napoléon " or by the sobriquet of " Plon-Plon ", he was a close advisor to his first cousin, Napoleon III of France, and in particular was seen as a leading advocate of French intervention in Italy on behalf of Camillo di Cavour and the Italian nationalists.

The cultural ambience and achievements of Mysore earned it the sobriquet Cultural capital of Karnataka.

Ellsworth's agricultural focus earned him the sobriquet of " The Father of the Department of Agriculture.

Wayne adopted a military career at the outset of the American Revolutionary War, where his military exploits and fiery personality quickly earned him a promotion to the rank of brigadier general and the sobriquet of Mad Anthony.

Robert, however, despite his marital problems, was a very devout Catholic, hence his sobriquet " the Pious.

They are often named after the town where they were reported, or on the sobriquet given to Mary on the occasion of the apparition.

Fianna Fáil (" the Fianna of Ireland "; sometimes rendered " the soldiers of destiny ") has been used as a sobriquet for the Irish Volunteers ; on the cap badge of the Irish Army ; in the opening line of the Irish-language version of the Irish national anthem ; and as the name of the Fianna Fáil political party.

Mary Renault, in Funeral Games, translates the sobriquet into English: " One Eye.