More recent researchers, in particular Ronald Willis and Joy Munns have studied the tour in detail and concluded that the presentation was made after a private cricket match played over Christmas 1882 when the English team were guests of Sir William Clarke, at his property " Rupertswood ", in Sunbury, Victoria.

The Sun Devils have played in the Fiesta Bowl five times, and in 1987 the ASU football team won the Rose Bowl, defeating the University of Michigan 22 – 15.

Currently, the team has played in the 2007 Holiday Bowl, 1997 Rose Bowl and also won the Rose Bowl in 1987 as well as the Fiesta Bowl in 1982, 1975, 1973, 1972, and 1971.

Having played baseball throughout his youth, Spalding first played competitively with the Rockford Pioneers, a youth team, which he joined in 1865.

After pitching his team to a 26 – 2 victory over a local men's amateur team ( the Mercantiles ), he was approached by another, the Forest Citys, for whom he played for two years.

Before the 1988 NFL season, the team moved to Tempe, Arizona, a college town suburb of Phoenix, and played their home games for the next 18 years at Arizona State University's Sun Devil Stadium.

Despite the strong start, the team played poorly in May and June and entered the All Star break at 47 – 48, still leading the NL West.

* Indianapolis ABCs, a Negro league baseball team that played in the early to mid 1900s

* 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 series generally featured no country music beyond the bluegrass banjo theme song, although country star Roy Clark and the team of Flatt and Scruggs occasionally played on the program.

Games played ( most often abbreviated as G or GP ) is a statistic used in team sports to indicate the total number of games in which a player has participated ( in any capacity ); the statistic is generally applied irrespective of whatever portion of the game is contested.

Barred by a court injunction from playing baseball in the state of Pennsylvania the next year, Lajoie was traded to the Cleveland team, where he played and managed for many years.

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.

The Bridgeport Bluefish is an American professional baseball team based in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

Bridgeport was the home of Major Leaguer, James " Orator " O ' Rourke, who signed the first African-American to play for a professional baseball team in 1895.

The first game of the Bridgeport Bluefish was May 21, 1998, and the team has had many winning seasons.

Charles B. Wang () ( born August 19, 1944 ) is the co-founder of Computer Associates International, Inc. ( later renamed to CA, Inc., then CA Technologies ) and owner of the New York Islanders ice hockey team and their AHL affiliates, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers.

The Arena at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport attracted a minor league hockey team, the Bridgeport Sound Tigers.

The team played as the Bridgeport Barrage from 2001 to 2003 at The Ballpark at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, Connecticut.

The team is based in Bridgeport, Connecticut and play their home games at the Webster Bank Arena.

The " Sound " in the team name is a reference to the Long Island Sound to the south of Bridgeport.

Yan spent the first half of 2009 pitching for the Bridgeport Bluefish, an unaffiliated minor league team in the Atlantic League.

Drury played many sports simultaneously ; before winning the Little League World Series with Trumbull, he won a national pee wee championship with his hockey team from Bridgeport the same year.

The Rough Riders also enjoyed a run to the quarter finals of the US Open Cup, beating USASA amateur team Bridgeport Italians in the second round, and then upsetting Major League Soccer side New England Revolution 4-3 before eventually falling to the MetroStars 1-0 on a golden goal.

He played for the Islanders affiliate AHL team the Bridgeport Sound Tigers and had 23 goals and 32 assists in 48 games

The Arena at Harbor Yard is home to the Bridgeport Sound Tigers, a professional ice hockey team in the American Hockey League ( AHL ) and the AHL affiliate of the New York Islanders of the National Hockey League ( NHL ).

2003 also saw New Hampshire's first foray into the US Open Cup, but their stay in the competition was marked by controversy: they originally beat USASA team Bridgeport Italians 3-0 in the second round ; however, the team the Italians beat in the first round-PDL outfit Chesapeake Dragons-protested the result of the first round game, due to the Italians fielding an ineligible player, and as a result the Italians were disqualified from the competition.

In 2006 he signed with the New York Islanders as a free agent but never played for the team suiting up for the Islanders affiliate Bridgeport Sound Tigers.

The next week, there was a primary in Connecticut, which ( while Anderson was the ballot ) Anderson's team had chose not to campaign for.

The home stadium for the University of Connecticut Huskies football team, Rentschler Field, is located adjacent to Pratt & Whitney's East Hartford, Connecticut campus, on Pratt's company-owned former airfield of the same name.

The Connecticut Sun, Seattle Storm, and Tulsa Shock are the only current teams to play without sharing the market with an NBA team ( although the Storm shared a market with the Seattle SuperSonics before that team's relocation ).

The team would now be playing right in the middle of the New York – New Jersey – Connecticut tri-state area, home to the three-time defending Stanley Cup champion New York Islanders, as well as the very popular New York Rangers.

* Berkshire Black Bears ( 2002 – 2003 ); team later moved to New Haven, Connecticut and then folded

When, in 1938, the Scranton Miners of Scranton, Pennsylvania team moved to Hartford, Connecticut and renamed the Hartford Bees, the league was renamed as the Eastern League.

With the increasing difficulty of scheduling games at Boston Garden ( owned by the NHL rival Boston Bruins ), the owners decided to move the team to Hartford, Connecticut beginning with the 1974-75 season.

Western is the only university in Connecticut that offers a policy debate team.

* Geno Auriemma, head coach of the University of Connecticut Huskies women's basketball team

It was the first double-A championship for a Red Sox farm team since 1983 when they were based in New Britain, Connecticut.

Although they had the youngest average age of any WNBA team, the Liberty managed to win 19 regular season games in 2008, to defeat the Connecticut Sun in the first round of playoff action, and to come within two points of defeating the Detroit Shock in the third and last game of the Eastern Conference Finals.

* Jim Calhoun, current head coach of University of Connecticut men's basketball team.

Together Coach Herb Magee and Coach Tom Shirley combined wins are more than 1, 500, making them the 3rd winningest collegiate basketball coaching team in the country, just behind University of Connecticut and University of North Carolina.

The Connecticut Sun is a professional basketball team based in Uncasville, Connecticut, playing in the Eastern Conference in the Women's National Basketball Association ( WNBA ).

The team was founded in Orlando, Florida before the inception of the 1999 season ; the team moved to Connecticut prior to the 2003 season.

Before the franchise relocated to Connecticut in 2003, the team operated as the Orlando Miracle.

During the first six seasons the team has been in Connecticut, the Sun have tied the highest winning record of any team in the WNBA during that time period, posting a record of 127 – 77, translating into a winning percentage of. 623, with the Detroit Shock having the same exact record for those six years.

The team was based in Hartford, Connecticut but played at the East Hartford Velodrome.

Soon after the Blues closest rival in Connecticut, the West Siders franchise, soon folded and George Mulligan immediately picked up the lease on Clarkin Field and renamed his team the Hartford Blues.

A new team, the Connecticut Sun, joined the league in 2003 with a nickname and logo which were extremely reminiscent of the Miami Sol.