He finished with the team and filled his pipe and stood looking about him.

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.

However, this difficulty is not too serious if it is realized that a surveying team can establish a true north base line with a few days' work.

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.

The '49 team was off to a so-so 5-5 beginning, then fell as low as 12-17 on May 23 before finishing with 96 victories.

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.

So it is too with many other spirits which we all know: the spirit of Nazism or Communism, school spirit, the spirit of a street corner gang or a football team, the spirit of Rotary or the Ku Klux Klan.

The club was originally founded as a football team in 1891, with the name Buenos Aires English High School although it was obliged to change its name to Alumni Athletic Club ( the name was proposed by a former student of the English High School ) in 1901.

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 ".

:" This urn was presented to Lord Darnley by some ladies of Melbourne after the final defeat of his team, and before he returned with the members to England.

Australia's ageing post-war team broke up after 1926, with Collins, Charlie Macartney and Warren Bardsley all departing, and Gregory breaking down at the start of the 1928 – 29 series.

Australia consolidated their status as the leading team in world cricket with a hard-fought 2 – 1 away series.

In the 1974 – 75 series, with the England team breaking up and their best batsman Geoff Boycott refusing to play, Australian pace bowlers Jeff Thomson and Dennis Lillee wreaked havoc.

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.

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

However, when a speaker wishes to emphasize that the individuals are acting separately, a plural pronoun may be employed with a singular or plural verb: the team takes their seats or the team take their seats, rather than the team takes its seats.

The team finished the 1960s with only 12 wins.

The team finished with a franchise best 14 – 2 regular season record and the NFC West division championship.

On December 6, 2001, Arthur M. Blank, the co-founder and retired co-chairman of Atlanta-based Home Depot, reached a preliminary agreement with the Falcons ’ Taylor Smith to purchase the team.

When the team debuted in 1966, the Falcons wore red helmets with a black falcon crest logo.

The team finished the 2002 season with a 98-64 record and won the NL West Division Title, but were swept out in the NLDS by the St. Louis Cardinals.

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

In the 2007 regular season, the Diamondbacks enjoyed success with a young team including Brandon Webb, Conor Jackson, Stephen Drew, Carlos Quentin, Chad Tracy, Chris Young, Miguel Montero, Mark Reynolds ( called up from Double-A in May ) and Justin Upton ( called up from Double-A in August ).

The scoring team receives one point for each of their balls that is closer to the jack than the closest ball of the other team.

The closest team to Baltimore was the Washington Redskins, but they were not in the same division, and they were not very competitive at that time.

The teams start with the rope's centre line directly above a line marked on the ground, and once the contest ( the " pull ") has commenced, attempt to pull the other team such that the marking on the rope closest to their opponent crosses the centre line, or the opponents commit a foul ( such as a team member sitting or falling down ).

Play continues with the team that is not closest to the jack having to continue throwing until they either land a boule closer to the jack than their opponents or run out of boules.

If the closest boules from each team are an equal distance from the jack, then the team that played last plays again.

On 3 June 2008, he was officially signed to become the manager of the Mexican national team against the advice of his closest business associates who warned of " deep divisions within the Mexican Football Federation " and an " underlying potential xenophobia among players and fans " and despite the mass protests by the Mexican fans that preceded his appointment.

The closest he came was in 2001, when his team started 6-3 but would end the season on an 0-5 skid to just barely miss the playoffs.

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.

With Major League Soccer's expansion in 2005, Real Salt Lake became the second team in the Rocky Mountain region and the Rapids ' closest neighbor.

Gordon befriended Doby and would become one of Doby's closest friends on the team.

The closest thing to an offer was the New York Yankees offering him the use of their facilities for training purposes but no spot on the spring training team.

** According to one of the engineers on the design team of the HP48G series ( Dave Arnett ), the yields for 4MHz CPUs were essentially separated into two parts: the ones closest to spec, generally near 3. 93-3. 94MHz, were reserved for the expandable models ( GX ), and those just slightly under spec were used for the non-expandable units ( G ).

For a large part of his career, Stewart was known for his National Football League ( NFL ) sponsorship, whereby he wore the team colors of the geographically closest NFL franchise.

Occasionally, it is also credited to the closest player to the goal from the other team if he is determined to have caused the opposing player to shoot it into the wrong net.

In NBA rules, the goal is credited to the player on the scoring team who is closest to defensive shooter and is mentioned in a footnote.

In 1928, the same side also came closest to any Spiders team since 1900 to winning the Scottish Cup but lost 2 – 1 to Celtic in the semi-finals.

The Blue Jays are the closest MLB team geographically to Buffalo and such a partnership would build on other international fan base efforts in the region, such as the Bills Toronto Series in football.

In a September 2006 interview, Nelson said he felt that Rifftrax may be the closest thing to a reunion of the Mystery Science Theater 3000 team ,< ref name =" TheFlux. tv ">

Because of this they decided to play for the closest professional team and Portsmouth had the pick of the best.

The team who came the closest won the item and an additional 15 seconds to their time.