The true and global revitalisation of interest in the concept dates from 1903, when Pelham Warner took a team to Australia with the promise that he would regain " the ashes ".

Her husband, then Ivo Bligh, took a team to Australia in the following year.

In 2006 a team of six people took part in the Ice Challenger Expedition.

* L — Loss: number of games where pitcher was pitching while the opposing team took the lead, never lost the lead, and went on to win

* W — Win: number of games where pitcher was pitching while his team took the lead and went on to win, also the starter needs to pitch at least 5 innings of work ( also related: winning percentage )

A wait of fourteen years would ensue until another British Isles team tour took place, again in South Africa.

* 1998: Two days after the French football team became World Cup champions, huge celebrations took place nationwide.

On 7 September 2008 he took part in Soccer Aid 2008, and on 6 June 2010 in Soccer Aid 2010, playing for the Rest of the World vs a team of England celebrities and ex pros.

Selig's defenders point to the poor management of the team after Selig-Prieb took control as proof that Selig was not working behind the scenes.

The Brabham team took the constructors ' world championship in both years.

Although Hill, no longer a front-runner since his 1969 accident, took his final Formula One win in the non-championship BRDC International Trophy at Silverstone, the team scored only seven championship points.

The team took a risk by recording and releasing the song before the playoffs had even begun, but were able to avoid embarrassment by going on to win Super Bowl XX by a then-record margin of 46 – 10.

Speaker took over the reins as player-manager in, and would lead the team to a championship in 1920.

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.

Their fans ' joy came to an abrupt end when the league temporarily disbanded in mid-1890 and took the team with it.

He admitted, “ I took over a last-place team, and I kept them there .” They did indeed end up in the basement with a 17 – 57 – 6 record for only 40 points.

Drop kicks are mandatory from the centre spot to start a half ( a kick-off ), from the centre spot to restart the game after points have been scored, to restart play from the 22-metre line ( called a drop-out ) after the ball is touched down or made dead in the in-goal area by the defending team when the attacking team kicked or took the ball into the in-goal area, and to score a drop goal ( sometimes called a field goal ) in open play, which is worth three points.

The team of screenwriters took the main suspect of the novel, Robert Tisdall, and his unexpected, initially reluctant supporter, Erica Burgoyne, and left out all the other characters, including Tey's Inspector Alan Grant and even the original murderer ( who is not the same character as in the film ).

Although Walter Winterbottom was appointed as England's first ever full-time manager in 1946, the team was still picked by a committee until Alf Ramsey took over in 1963.

Sven-Göran Eriksson took charge of the team between 2001 and 2006 and was the first non-English manager of England.

Some ties took as many as six matches to settle ; in their 1975 campaign, Fulham played a total of 12 games over six rounds, which remains the most games played by a team to reach a final.

Cable took the team, including Bobby, to his island so Rogue could get treatment.

Munich was the site of the 1972 Summer Olympics, during which Israeli athletes were assassinated by Palestinian terrorists in the Munich massacre, when gunmen from the Palestinian " Black September " terrorist group took hostage members of the Israeli Olympic team.

Two years later Lord Harris brought another England team out and during England ’ s first innings in the Test at the MCG, Fred Spofforth took the first hat-trick in Test cricket.

Rabb, the former Louisiana State field general, came off the bench for his debut with the Bills Sunday and directed his new team to a 22-12 upset victory over the Houston Oilers, defending league champions.

But when tiny, 145-pound Albert Gregory Pearson of the Los Angeles Angels, who once caught three straight fly balls in center field because, as a teammate explained, `` the other team thought no one was out there '', hits seven home runs in four months ( three more than his total in 1958, 1959, and 1960 ), his achievement borders on the ridiculous.

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.

Home field advantage is given to the team that has the better record, with the exception that the team that made the postseason as the Wild Card team cannot get home field advantage.

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.

Since 1998, home field advantage has been given to the team that has the better regular season record, unless that team happens to be the Wild Card team.

In that case, the other team gets home field advantage, because by rule the Wild Card team is never allowed home field advantage in a Division Series or LCS.

In the event that both teams have identical records in the regular season, home field advantage goes to the team that has the winning head-to-head record.

Home field advantage goes to the team with the better regular season record, except for the wild card team, which never receives the home field advantage.

A team can score a field goal by shooting the ball through the basket during regular play.

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.

A team for useful research.

A student to be eligible for the captaincy of any Carleton team must have a scholastic record of at least 1.00.

Russia knows this, and that is why there were over 800,000 competing for places as candidates for the Olympic gymnastic team.

Eighty thousand won top honors and a chance to try for the team itself.

Ten students act as managers for a high-school football team, and of these managers a proportion P are licensed drivers.

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.

Whitey Herzog, performing in right as the Orioles fielded possibly their strongest team of the spring, worked Keegan for a base on balls.

The Texans have two more road games -- at Buffalo and Houston -- before they play for the home folks again, and it looks as if coach Hank Stram's men will meet the Bills just as they are developing into the kind of team they were expected to be in pre-season reckonings.

His goal was to obtain a National League team for this city.

Bevo was congratulated for his efforts to stay in shape so that he could help the team if his knee healed in time.

But now, for the first time since Lou Gehrig ( with 47 home runs ) spurred Ruth on in 1927, two men playing for the same team have zeroed in on 60.

Lincoln's followers organized a campaign team led by David Davis, Norman Judd, Leonard Swett, and Jesse DuBois, and Lincoln received his first endorsement to run for the presidency.

In 1951 the English High School asked its former students for permission to re-establish the name " Alumni " for a rugby team.

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.