Dan asked Hez, who had limped back from his team to hold the notched-stick chair braces in place while his boys swung up the tailgate and tied it tight at the ends.

Wisman, who has had the chief controller's job for four years, calls the signals for a team operating three rows of dull-gray consoles studded with lights, switches and buttons.

The two of them had developed into a remarkable sailing team all of this happening in a time of their lives when their youth and their brotherhood knitted them together as no other time or circumstance could.

Several days after the companies had received the questionnaire, members of the research team contacted the presidents of eleven of these companies in person or by phone to discuss any ambiguities or difficulties the addressees might have experienced in completing the questionnaire.

However much football has been over-emphasized, the public likes to measure its collegiate favorites by the scoreboard, so, while Yale need never give its record a thought again since outscoring its opponents 694 to 0 in the season of 1888, Dartmouth had to wait until its championship team of 1925 for national recognition.

While women had always attended ball games in small numbers ( it was the part of a `` dead game sport '' in the early years of the twentieth century to be taken out to the ball park and to root, root, root for the home team ), they had often sat in patient martyrdom, unable even to read the scoreboard, which sometimes seemed to indicate that one team led another by a score of three hundred and eighty to one hundred and fifty-one.

`` You often hear people talk about team spirit and that sort of thing '', Benington said in a conversation after the ceremonies, `` but what this team had was a little different.

He belonged to a social club, a civic group, little theater, swimming team, and had been president of the student forum as well as treasurer of the science club.

This was the last try to develop itself as a sports club rather than just a football team, such as Lomas, Belgrano and Quilmes had successfully done in the past, but the efforts were not enough.

This request was immediately approved in a meeting presided by Carlos Bowers, who had proposed the name " Alumni " to the original football team 50 years before.

Australia had lost 2 – 1 during a tour of the West Indies in 1964 – 65, the first time they had lost a series to any team other than England.

WSC affected all Test playing nations but it weakened Australia especially as the bulk of its players had signed up with Packer ; the Australian Cricket Board ( ACB ) would not select WSC-contracted players and an almost completely new Test team had to be formed.

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

In 1982 – 83 Australia had Greg Chappell back from WSC as captain, while the England team was weakened by the enforced omission of their South African tour rebels, particularly Graham Gooch and John Emburey.

The 2010 – 11 Ashes series is the only one in which a team has won three Tests by innings margins and it was the first time England had scored 500 or more four times in a single series.

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

After the team had developed a method of purifying penicillin to an effective first stable form in 1940, several clinical trials ensued, and their amazing success inspired the team to develop methods for mass production and mass distribution in 1945.

Another group reported it had deposited earnest money for a team in the AFL.

According to the original press release from Colangelo's group ( which remained posted on the team website during the first few seasons ) the chosen team colors were Arizona turquoise, copper, black and purple.

In 1975, the team posted an 11 – 3 record, giving them what is to this day the highest winning percentage (. 786 ) in franchise history.

The Bengals ' fortunes changed for the worse as the team posted 14 consecutive non-winning seasons.

In addition, the pitching staff posted a 4. 66 ERA — the best in team history — and starters Jason Jennings, Aaron Cook, and Jeff Francis had good seasons.

After the Olympic break, Detroit posted a record of 13-2-2 and earned 28 points, the most by any team in the NHL in the month of March.

Retaining a core of stars from their title team and hoping that newly acquired 1B Hee Seop Choi would emerge, the Marlins fell short of reaching the postseason, but they posted the third winning season in franchise history, boasting an 83-79 record.

After performances in the youth and A teams gained him promotion to the reserves, Banks was posted to Germany with the Royal Signals on National service, winning the Rhine Cup with his regimental team.

Following the Colts first NFL championship, the team once again posted a 9 – 3 record during the 1959 season and would defeat the Giants once again in the NFL Championship Game to claim their second title in back to back fashion.

His Dolphins teams posted losing records in only two of his 26 seasons as the head coach of the team.

The Patriots were considered a cinderella team during the 1985 season, and posted an 11-5 regular season record, but entered the playoffs as a wild card because of tiebreakers.

The team had posted an NFL-worst 1 – 10 – 1 record in 1958 before legendary head coach Vince Lombardi was hired in January 1959.

Under Madden, the Raiders posted the best overall record for any NFL team in his 8 seasons, 83-22-7.

The team then posted a 10-6 record in 1994 after starting the regular season at 3-6, but were eliminated by the Cleveland Browns in their first playoff game.

However, the team never posted a finish higher than second place and Valentine was relieved of his duties during the 1992 season.

The following morning, Magee posted an email from The Register management team that described Magee's criticism of The Register as " gross misconduct ", concluding that Magee had effectively dismissed himself.

Under head coach Van Chancellor, the team posted a 98 – 24 record through their first four seasons ( 16 – 3 in the Playoffs ).

The team posted a 16 – 18 record and became the first team in WNBA history to miss the Playoffs after winning the championship in the previous season.

However, this young and inexperienced expansion team posted a record of 12 – 60 – 6, one of the worst in NHL history.

The team began play for the 1966 – 67 NBA season, and immediately posted the best record by an expansion team in NBA history.

In the 1997 – 98 NBA season Larry Bird coached the team, under whom they posted a new franchise record, finishing 58 – 24, a 19-game improvement from the previous season.

During the 1978 – 79 season, the team posted a 47 – 35 record but lost to the SuperSonics in the semifinal round of the playoffs.

-- The Orioles tonight retained the distinction of being the only winless team among the eighteen Major-League clubs as they dropped their sixth straight spring exhibition decision, this one to the Kansas City Athletics by a score of 5 to 3.

The U. S. Library of Congress has a collection of 3, 000 versions of and songs inspired by " Amazing Grace ", some of which were first-time recordings by folklorists Alan and John Lomax, a father and son team who in 1932 traveled thousands of miles across the South to capture the different regional styles of the song.

Although every Major League Baseball team cultivates fans from outside its immediate metropolitan area, and even though the greater Phoenix area has 2 / 3 of the statewide population, Colangelo still decided to call the team the " Arizona Diamondbacks " rather than the " Phoenix Diamondbacks ".

Webb went 16 – 8 with a 3. 10 ERA and in the 2006 season was named to his first All-Star team.

In the 2005 – 06 season, Stanley, after winning against Woking with 3 matches to spare, secured a place back in the Football League and the town celebrated with a small parade and honours placed on senior executives of the team.

The NLCS and ALCS, since the expansion to best-of-seven, are always played in a 2 – 3 – 2 format: games 1, 2, 6 and 7 are played in the stadium of the team that has home field advantage, and Games 3, 4 and 5 are played in the stadium of the team that does not.

The ALCS and NLCS, since the expansion to best-of-seven, are always played in a 2 – 3 – 2 format: Games 1, 2, 6, and 7 are played in the stadium of the team that has home field advantage, and Games 3, 4, and 5 are played in the stadium of the team that does not.

A field goal scores two points for the shooting team if a player is touching or closer to the basket than the three-point line, and three points ( known commonly as a 3 pointer or three ) if the player is behind the three-point line.

His goal in the 3 – 1 group win over Argentina was his 25th for England in just 38 appearances, but his individual success could not be replicated by that of the team, which was eliminated in the quarter final by Brazil, who went on to win the tournament.

Former Browns QB Otto Graham ( left, with head coach Paul Brown ), who led the Browns to 4 AAFC and 3 NFL Championships, and is a Pro Football Hall of Fame member. While the championship losses sowed bitterness among Cleveland fans who had grown accustomed to winning, the team continued to make progress.

The team finished its first season with a 3 – 11 record.

Indians Pitcher CC Sabathia won the second Cy Young Award in team history with a 19 – 7 record, a 3. 21 ERA and an MLB-leading 241 innings pitched.

The divisional winners met in a best-of-5 series to advance to the World Series, in a " 2 – 3 " format, first two games were played at the home of the team who did not have home field advantage.

However, the pitching staff — a strong point for the team in 1995 — was beset by injuries: Bill Swift, who went 9 – 3 in 1995, started just three games, and the staff ERA ballooned to 5. 60.

The No. 3 Goodwrench Chevy team took the flat tire that cost them the win and hung it on the shop wall as a reminder of how close they'd come to winning the Daytona 500.

David Smith departed as crew chief of the No. 3 team and RCR at the end of the year for personal reasons, and was replaced by Larry McReynolds.