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

The team achieved good results and in 1960 the club presented a team that won the third division of the Buenos Aires league, reaching the second division.

They won the first eight matches in succession including a 5 – 0 whitewash in 1920 – 1921 at the hands of Warwick Armstrong's team.

Bradman rated the team that won the series 2 – 1 as England's best ever.

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

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 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.

ASU has won 23 national collegiate team championships in the following sports: baseball ( 5 ), men's golf ( 2 ), women's golf ( 7 ), men's gymnastics ( 1 ), softball ( 2 ), men's indoor track ( 1 ), women's indoor track ( 2 ), men's outdoor track ( 1 ), women's outdoor track ( 1 ), and wrestling ( 1 ).

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.

The team has also won four division titles (,,, and ) since their 1947 – 1948 NFL championship game appearances.

This was the first time since that the home team won all seven games of a World Series and the first time that a National League team won a World Series in which the home team won all seven games of a World Series.

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.

In 1995, the year Ajax won the Champions League, the Dutch national team was almost entirely composed of Ajax players, with Edwin van der Sar in goal ; players such as Michael Reiziger, Frank de Boer, and Danny Blind in defense ; Ronald de Boer, Edgar Davids, and Clarence Seedorf in midfield ; and Patrick Kluivert and Marc Overmars in attack.

AZ's second championship was the first Eredivisie title in 28 years, and the first time since then that the Eredivisie was won by a team other than the " big three " ( Ajax, PSV and Feyenoord ).

The 33rd America's Cup Race was won by Golden Gate Yacht Club racing team BMW Oracle, founded by Larry Ellison.

The Lions ' 2005 tour to New Zealand, coached by 2003 England world cup winning coach Clive Woodward, won all seven games against provincial teams however suffered heavy defeats in all three tests and were narrowly defeated by the New Zealand Maori team.

The Browns kept rolling in 1955 after Brown convinced Graham to come back and play, arguing that the team lacked a solid alternative.

The Joint Technical Language Service ( JTLS ) was established in 1955, drawing on members of the small Ministry of Defence technical language team and others, initially to provide standard English translations for organisational expressions in any foreign language, discover the correct English equivalents of technical terms in foreign languages and discover the correct expansions of abbreviations in any language.

Aaron made the All-Star team every year from 1955 through 1975 and won three Gold Glove Awards.

In 1955, Aaron made his first All-Star team ; it was the first of a record-tying 21 All-Star Game appearances.

In 1955, the year after Attucks had lost in the semistate final ( state quarterfinals ) to Milan's championship team, Attucks gained fame by winning the Indiana state championship, becoming the first all-black school in the nation to win a state title open to all schools regardless of race.

Sir Ian Terence Botham OBE ( born 24 November 1955 ) is a former England Test cricketer and Test team captain, and current cricket commentator.

Although the team enjoyed ultimate success, 1955 was the worst year of Robinson's individual career.

The franchise was established following the actions of Stuart Symington, then-United States Senator from Missouri, who demanded a new franchise for the city after the Athletics ( Kansas City's previous major league team from 1955 to 1967 ) moved to Oakland, California.

The inaugural first-class match at the National Stadium was played between Pakistan and India on 26 February 1955 and since then Pakistani national cricket team has won 20 of the 41 Test matches played at the National Stadium.

Mendelevium ( for Dimitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, surname commonly transliterated into Latin script as Mendeleev, Mendeleyev, Mendeléef, or even Mendelejeff, and first name sometimes transliterated as Dmitry or Dmitriy ) was first synthesized by Albert Ghiorso, Glenn T. Seaborg, Gregory R. Choppin, Bernard G. Harvey, and Stanley G. Thompson ( team leader ) in early 1955 at the University of California, Berkeley.

Although the Washington team endured long bouts of mediocrity ( immortalized in the 1955 Broadway musical Damn Yankees ), they had a period of prolonged success in the 1920s and 1930s, led by Hall-of-Famers Bucky Harris, Goose Goslin, Sam Rice, Heinie Manush, Joe Cronin, and above all Walter Johnson.

The A's would struggle on for four more years with only one winning team, and then abandon Philadelphia ( under the Johnson brothers, who bought out Mack ) and start play in Kansas City in 1955.

The day after their doubleheader loss, the Pirates traveled to New York's Polo Grounds, where Roberto, having just achieved some measure of vindication against the team that let him get away, now had a chance to compete against his two great baseball heroes, both his boyhood idol Monte Irvin and his recently acquired friend and mentor ( not to mention teammate, with the 1954-55 Caribbean Champion Santurce Crabbers ), Willie Mays, both of whom now patrolled the outfield of the defending World Champion New York Giants, with whom the Pirates now began a four-game series, hoping to pick up their first win of 1955.

The top-ranked UEFA competition is the UEFA Champions League, which started in the 1992 / 93 season and gathers the top 1-4 teams of each country's league ( the number of teams depend on that country's ranking and can be upgraded or downgraded ); this competition was re-structured from a previous one that only gathered the top team of each country ( and thus less competitive, held from 1955 – 1992 and known as the European Champion Clubs Cup or just European Cup ).

Lombardi led the team to a 7 – 5 – 2 record, their best since 1955, but died of cancer on the eve of the 1970 season.

The title of the 1955 musical Damn Yankees refers specifically to the New York Yankees baseball team but also echoes the older cultural term.

He played on seven Ryder Cup teams: 1937, 1947, 1949, 1951, 1953, 1955, and 1959, and captained the team in 1951, 1959, and 1969.

* Lyon 1955, board 2, 7½ / 8 (+ 7 − 0 = 1 ), team gold, board gold ;

She retired from athletics in 1955, after which she became captain of the Dutch female track and field team.

The team moved again in 1955 to St. Louis, Missouri, where they won their only NBA Championship title in 1958.

In particular, there are accusations that the team may have intentionally lost the 1955 NBA Finals to the Syracuse Nationals.

The Warriors won their other championships as a Philadelphia team in the 1955 – 56 season, defeating the Fort Wayne Pistons four games to one.

His brother Henri " The Pocket Rocket " Richard joined him with the Canadiens in 1955 and would go on to win eleven Stanley Cups with the team, an NHL record.

1955 saw the departure of Dick Irvin from the Canadiens and the return of Toe Blake to coach the team.

He led the team to another double in 1956 and to further Copa del Generalisimo victories in 1955 and 1958.