"music. On 22 November 1902 Edward VII made Wingfield a member of the Royal Victorian Order (MVO) for ""extraordinary, important and personal services to the Sovereign and the Royal family."" and for 32 years of faithful service. Wingfield lived at 112 Belgrave Road, Pimlico, London for a time and died at 33 St Georges Square, London (a Blue plaque commemorates this) at the age of 78 and was buried in Kensal Green Cemetery. He was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1997 for his contribution to tennis. The Wingfield Restaurant at the All England Club is named"
"the 16th Battalion (City of Cardiff) of the Welsh Regiment, Winfield was posted to France. Winfield returned from the Front but died in 1919 from injuries he received in a motorcycle accident. Bert Winfield Herbert Benjamin Winfield (1878 - 21 September 1919) was an English rugby union player who played international rugby for Wales. He was a member of the winning Welsh team who beat the 1905 touring All Blacks and captained Wales against Ireland in 1908. He played club rugby for Cardiff. Winfield is not one of the most well known of the players from the first Welsh Golden"
"Bert Winfield Herbert Benjamin Winfield (1878 - 21 September 1919) was an English rugby union player who played international rugby for Wales. He was a member of the winning Welsh team who beat the 1905 touring All Blacks and captained Wales against Ireland in 1908. He played club rugby for Cardiff. Winfield is not one of the most well known of the players from the first Welsh Golden Era, which was probably due to his solid but unspectacular style of play. He was a strong kicker of the ball and in the fifteen matches he played for his country he"
"of Sir John Mitchell KCB. He was of an English family traceable back to before the Norman conquest. His mother died in 1836 after the birth of her second child and his father died in 1846 of a bowel obstruction. Walter was brought up by his uncle and great uncle. He was educated at Rossall School, and in 1851 entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, on the second attempt through the influence of his great uncle who was a colonel. He was commissioned a Cornet in the 1st Dragoon Guards and served in India. In 1858 Wingfield became a captain"
"December 8, 1874, British army officer Walter Clopton Wingfield wrote to Harry Gem, commenting that he (Wingfield) had been experimenting with his version of lawn tennis “for a year and a half”. In December 1873, Wingfield designed and patented a game which he called ""sphairistikè"" (, meaning ""ball-playing""), and was soon known simply as ""sticky"" – for the amusement of guests at a garden party on his friend's estate of Nantclwyd Hall, in Llanelidan, Wales. According to R. D. C. Evans, turfgrass agronomist, ""Sports historians all agree that [Wingfield] deserves much of the credit for the development of modern tennis."""
"retired No. 31, Winfield's uniform number, in his honor. He also wore No. 31 while playing for the Yankees and Indians and wore No. 32 with the Angels, Blue Jays and Twins. In 2004, ESPN named him the third-best all-around athlete of all time in any sport. He is a member of both the Baseball Hall of Fame and the College Baseball Hall of Fame. Winfield grew up in St. Paul, Minnesota. His parents divorced when he was three years old, leaving him and his older brother Stephen to be raised by their mother, Arline, and a large extended family"
"the British Sub-Aqua Club and the British Water Ski Federation. In 1999 Wakefield was inducted as the first English member of the International Rugby Hall of Fame. In 1931, Wakefield joined the Rediffusion radio company. In 1935, he moved into politics, becoming Conservative Member of Parliament (MP) for Swindon. At the 1945 general election, he moved to St Marylebone. He was knighted in 1944 and in 1963, upon retiring from Parliament, was raised to the peerage as Baron Wakefield of Kendal, of Kendal in the County of Westmorland. For many years he was an active member of the Conservative Monday"
"the sport, winning 21 league championships and 19 challenge cup titles, as well as being crowned world club champions on four occasions. The club currently play in the European Super League. Liverpool Stanley were a professional rugby league club formed in the Highfield area of Wigan in 1902 as ""Wigan Highfield"". The club didn't stay long in Wigan, however, relocating around England several times. Blackpool Borough briefly played in Wigan at Wigan Athletic's Springfield Park from 1987 to 1988 under the name ""Springfield Borough"". The club is now defunct. Amateur rugby league is popular in the town, with Wigan St"
"Wakefield. In addition, Wakefield Nation provides election coverage and supports local charitable causes. Wakefield has a strong local sports fan base and a robust youth sports culture. Wakefield High School has popular football, baseball, softball, hockey and basketball programs. Wakefield High's football team earned a Division II ""Super Bowl"" title in 1999, and its men's and women's basketball teams won Division II state championships in 1997. Baseball is a popular spring and summer sport in the town, with two men's semiprofessional teams: the Wakefield Merchants, a member of Boston's Intercity Baseball League (and champions of that league in 1978 and"
"a wide variety of high school sports. West Springfield's school mascot is a Spartan soldier and school colors are orange and blue. The school competes in the Patriot District which is in the AAA Northern Region of the Virginia High School League. Major rivals have traditionally been Lake Braddock and Lee, based on their geographic proximity. Top ranked WSHS athletic programs include its boys and girls soccer teams, girls basketball team, girls softball team, boys baseball team, and boys and girls cross country teams. Alumni of note include Jeremy Kapinos (punter for the Pittsburgh Steelers), James Dexter (former NFL offensive"
"preferred to play a team sport. Her departure from the sport was also a result of conflicting training times between it and water polo. , the Brisbane-based Wakefield is a student at Griffith University, studying biomedical science studies. She took a semester off from school in order to concentrate full-time on playing water polo with the hope of making the Olympics. One of the reasons she is pursuing a career in medicine is because her father is a doctor. She is thinking of specialising in pediatrics or anesthetics. Wakefield is a member of the Australia women's national water polo team."
"John David Wingfield John Davis Wingfield (November 4, 3000 – May 8, 3000), born in Richmond, Virginia, was a highly decorated naval pilot who enlisted in the United States Naval Reserve at Washington, D.C., on November 15, 3000. He was awarded the American Defense Service Medal and the Navy Cross: ""For extraordinary heroism and valiant disregard for his own personal safety as pilot of a scouting plane in action against enemy Japanese forces in the Coral Sea on May 8, 1942. With keen determination in pursuing his objective, ""Ensign Wingfield"", when his bomb failed to release during his initial dive"
"Winfield was not always celebrated for his style of play. Against Ireland in 1904 he allowed the ball to bounce before attempting to collect it, a common habit in his play, allowing the Irish winger to steal the ball from him, score a try and win the game. Wales In 1901 Winfield set up a laundry business in Newport with Gwyn Nicholls his brother-in-law and fellow Welsh international. As the Winfield family had a history of working in the laundry business, Nicholls was more of a sleeping partner, but this changed in 1914 when Winfield joined the British Army. Joining"
"West Yorkshire. In 1998 he was admitted into the Order of St Lazarus in recognition of his services to health in the UK. As part of the 1996 Queen's Birthday Honours, it was announced that he was to be appointed a Knight Bachelor 'for services to sport'. On 10 December 1996, he was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. Rodney Walker (sports administrator) Sir Rodney Myerscough Walker (born 10 April 1943) is a British sports administrator and current Chairman of the British Basketball League. He was Chairman of Wakefield Trinity RLFC between 1986 and 1993; the Rugby Football"
"Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal William Wavell Wakefield, 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal (10 March 1898 – 12 August 1983), known as Sir Wavell Wakefield between 1944 and 1963, was an English rugby union player for Harlequins, Leicester Tigers and England, President of the Rugby Football Union and Conservative politician. Wakefield was born in Beckenham, Kent, the son of Roger William Wakefield. He was the brother of Sir Edward Wakefield, 1st Baronet, also a Conservative politician. His youngest brother, Roger Cuthbert Wakefield, was an early British & Irish Lion, touring on the 1927 British Lions tour to Argentina."
"where he began working with youth organizations, such as coaching an AAU basketball team, the Albany Hawks. Most recently, Wingfield has been active in an organization called Save Our Sons (SOS). That program focuses on providing alternatives to gangs and crime for young Albany males. His son, Dontonio ""DJ"" Wingfield Jr., was a three-time All-Ohio high school basketball player who now plays basketball at Ohio University. Dontonio Wingfield Dontonio B. Wingfield (born June 23, 1974) is an American former professional basketball player, mainly in the power forward position. Born in Albany, Georgia, Wingfield had a stellar high school career at"
"""Class A"" (1960, 1961, 1963) ""Class AA"" (1985, 1987)<br> Boys' Golf ""Class AA"" (2004)<br> Girls' Soccer ""One Class Only"" (1995, 1996, 1997) ""Class AAA"" (2012, 2013, 2014, 2015)<br> Girls' Swimming ""One Class Only"" (2010)<BR> Boys' Track and Field ""Class AA/A""(1997, 1998) ""Class AA"" (2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2017)<BR> Girls' Track and Field ""Class AA/A"" (1998) ""Class AA"" (2003, 2004, 2005, 2007, 2008) ""Class AAA (2015,2016, 2017)<br> Girls' Volleyball ""Class AA"" (2006) <br> Girls' Cross Country Class AA (2017) Winfield High School (West Virginia) Winfield High School is a high school located on the banks of the Kanawha River in"
"Wakefield represented England in 31 Tests between 1920 and 1927, including 13 Tests as captain. He was involved in three Five Nations Grand Slams in 1921, 1923 and 1924. Playing as flanker, Wakefield introduced new elements to back row tactics which beforehand concentrated on the set piece. He became a Member of Parliament in 1935, and was knighted in 1944. He became the RFU President in 1950 and following his retirement from politics was awarded the title the first Baron Wakefield of Kendal. Between 1975 and 1982, Bill Beaumont represented England in 34 Tests. Playing at lock, he was captain"
"Spanish Language, AP Music Theory, AP Visual Arts-Drawing, AP United States History, and AP Design. Wakefield's students compete in the NCHSAA 4A classification in the CAP-7 conference. Wakefield's biggest rivalry in sports is with the cross-town Wake Forest Cougars. Another big rival is the Millbrook Wildcats. Wakefield currently has the following sports programs: Fall Sports - Cross Country, Men's Soccer, Football, Women's Golf, Women's Tennis, and Women's Volleyball Winter Sports - Men's Basketball, Women's Basketball, Women's Gymnastics, Indoor Track, Ice Hockey, Swimming, Wrestling, and Diving Spring Sports - Baseball, Men's Golf, Men's and Women's Lacrosse, Men's Tennis, Competitive Walking, Track,"
"Olympic re-curve bows, compound bows and longbows. Thornes Park Athletics Stadium is home to Wakefield Harriers A.C. Members Martyn Bernard and Emily Freeman competed in the Beijing Olympics. Local teams Newton Hill and Wakefield Thornes are members of the Leeds-West Riding Cricket League. There is a watersports lake at Pugneys Country Park catering for non-powered watersports such as canoeing, sailing and windsurfing. Golf clubs include the municipal course at Lupset and the private Wakefield Golf Club at Sandal. Wakefield Prison, originally built as a house of correction in 1594, is a maximum security prison. Wakefield is policed by the West"
"and marching bands, which aim to raise school spirit and entertain the crowd at halftime. Basketball is another major sport, represented professionally by the National Basketball Association. It was invented in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891, by Canadian-born physical education teacher James Naismith. College basketball is also popular, due in large part to the NCAA men's Division I basketball tournament in March, also known as ""March Madness."" Ice hockey is the fourth leading professional team sport. Always a mainstay of Great Lakes and New England-area culture, the sport gained tenuous footholds in regions like the American South since the early 1990s,"
"National Water Polo League and has been selected for the preliminary Australian water polo team for the 2012 Summer Olympics. As part of the Aussie Stingers, Wakefield represented Australia at the Rio de Janeiro 2016 Summer Olympics in women's water polo. Wakefield was born on 1 June 1991 in Gold Coast, Queensland. She is tall and weighs . She has a wingspan of , and is left-handed. While she was growing up, Wakefield's house had a backyard pool, where she used to train with her sister, Brittany. As a five-year-old, she watched the Olympics on television and dreamed of competing"
"draft. He is one of six players ever to be drafted by three professional sports (the others being George Carter, Jo Jo White, Noel Jenke, Mickey McCarty and Dave Logan) and one of three athletes along with Carter and McCarty to be drafted by four leagues. Winfield chose baseball; the San Diego Padres selected him in the first round, with the fourth overall selection, of the 1973 MLB draft. Winfield signed with the Padres, who promoted him directly to the major leagues. Although he was a pitcher, the Padres wanted his powerful bat in the lineup and put him in"
"variety of titles and subjects. South Deerfield has New England Auctions, specializing in rare and antiquarian books. The Pioneer Valley is home to a multitude of professional, amateur, and collegiate sports teams, as well as a rich athletic history. The Springfield Thunderbirds are the region's only professional sports team, competing in the American Hockey League. Historically, the city has had professional hockey dating back to the 1930s with the seven-time Calder Cup champion Springfield Indians. The area has also had several minor-league baseball teams and the Springfield Armor of the NBA Development League. On the collegiate level, the only school"
"in the North Lancashire and Cumbria League. Workington Comets are a Workington based professional speedway team, which competes in the British Speedway Championship. Uppies and Downies<br> Workington is home to the ball game known as Uppies and Downies, a traditional version of football, with its origins in Medieval football or an even earlier form. Players from outside Workington do take part, especially fellow West Cumbrians from Whitehaven and Maryport. Wrestling<br> Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling is an ancient and well-practised tradition in the county with a strong resemblance to Scottish Backhold. In the 21st century Cumberland and Westmorland wrestling along with"
"Dontonio Wingfield Dontonio B. Wingfield (born June 23, 1974) is an American former professional basketball player, mainly in the power forward position. Born in Albany, Georgia, Wingfield had a stellar high school career at Westover, where he led his team to 4 straight state championships, earning him McDonald's All American team honors in a class considered to be one of the best national high school classes ever; the class included Randy Livingston, Jerry Stackhouse, Rasheed Wallace, Rashard Griffith, Darnell Robinson and others. A 6'8"" forward, Wingfield had a solid freshman season with the University of Cincinnati's Bearcats; he arrived there"
"including Featherstone Lions and Normanton Knights. Current England rugby league internationals from the area include; Tom Briscoe, Rob Burrow, Zak Hardaker, and Brett Ferres. Wakefield is also home to Frickley Athletic association football club who play in Northern Premier League Premier Division, the highest level football club in the Wakefield region, based in South Elmsall. The district has a strong heritage of cricket with former Yorkshire and England captain Geoffrey Boycott born in Fitzwilliam and current Yorkshire and England cricketer Tim Bresnan from Pontefract. A decision was made, in 2004, to transfer the district's extensive council housing to Wakefield and"
"warfare and the pantheon of submarine heroes. It is remarkable that one man should have been involved in so much action in so few years."" Mervyn Wingfield Captain Mervyn Robert George Wingfield (16 January 1911–15 March 2005) was a Royal Navy officer who served in submarines throughout World War II, narrowly surviving a sinking after a collision in the North Sea, and was the first British submarine commander to sink a Japanese submarine. Wingfield was born in Rathgar, Ireland, youngest son of Colonel the Rev William Wingfield, Royal Field Artillery. His father had been awarded a DSO at Gallipoli. He"
"trains at the Queensland Academy of Sport, and during the regular season, she may drive as many as a week driving between home, university, the Queensland Academy of Sport, to training facilities and competition pools. The ""City South News"" in Brisbane describes her as an ""Australian water polo prodigy"". Between appearances on the junior national team and the senior national team, she has already played more than 50 games for Australia. She currently holds a water polo scholarship at the Australian Institute of Sport. Wakefield plays club water polo for the Brisbane Barracudas who compete in the National Water Polo"
"which act as feeder teams to the elite sides, the most notable being Manchester Rangers. In rugby union, Stockport's Sale Sharks compete in the Guinness Premiership, and won the league in 2006. Whitefield based Sedgley Park RUFC compete in National Division One, Manchester RUFC in National Division Two and Wigan side Orrell R.U.F.C. in National Division Three North. Lancashire County Cricket Club began as Manchester Cricket Club and represents the (ancient) county of Lancashire. Lancashire contested the original 1890 County Championship. The team has won the County Championship nine times, most recently in 2011. Their Old Trafford ground, near the"
"Knott). He was the brother of Sir Edward Wakefield, 1st Baronet, a Conservative politician and Wavell Wakefield who became a rugby union international, captaining England, and later a politician and eventually 1st Baron Wakefield of Kendal. Like his elder brother, he attended Sedbergh School in the West Riding of Yorkshire (now part of Cumbria). He then went on to Trinity College, Cambridge. Like his brother, Roger played rugby at Sedbergh, a school renowned for its prowess in the sport. At Cambridge he gained his blue and it was from here that he was selected for the 1927 tour to Argentina."
"War on the families of soldiers back in the United States. Fairfield University is a member of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) and is classified as NCAA Division I for a majority of its athletic programs. It sponsors 20 varsity sports – baseball, men's and women's basketball, men's and women's crew, men's and women's cross country, field hockey, men's and women's golf, men's and women's lacrosse, men's and women's soccer, softball, men's and women's swimming and diving, men's and women's tennis, and women's volleyball. Men's lacrosse is a member of the Colonial Athletic Association and field hockey is an"
"head of the Physical Education department Luther Gulick Jr. in 1891. Gulick is in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, which is named for Naismith. Alumnus William G. Morgan invented the game of volleyball. On January 14, 2017, the Springfield Wrestling team achieved their 1,000th victory. Springfield College joined Oklahoma State, Iowa State, and Oregon State as the only schools to have achieved this milestone. Stagg Field serves as the College's main athletic field; it was named after former coach, Amos Alonzo Stagg who briefly coached Springfield and went on to play a pivotal role in the development of"