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Lions International Building visible in Chicago in 1970. The organization expanded internationally on 12 March 1920, when a club opened in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. In 1937 the club expanded to San Juan in Puerto Rico. [29] Currently Lions Clubs operate in more than 200 countries and have over 1.4 million members. [30] Saudi Arabia was one
The Brisbane Lions are an Australian rules football club. The Queensland-based expansion club was formed in 1987, as the Brisbane Bears. [1] In late 1996, via a deal with the administrator of the 1883 VFL/AFL foundation club Fitzroy Football Club, Fitzroy's club operations at the AFL level were merged with that of the Bears.
The club became the Brisbane Bears-Fitzroy Football Club (trading as Brisbane Lions), [22] remained at the Gabba, and were coached by Bears coach John Northey. However, the club's identity, logo, song, and guernsey were based on those of Fitzroy, three Fitzroy representatives served on the board, and the Lions kept an office in Melbourne.
The Nittany Lion mascot pumps up the crowd at the 2005 Penn State Nittany Lions football game versus Cincinnati at Beaver Stadium. Eastern mountain lions had roamed on nearby Mount Nittany until the 1880s. [2] The name "Mount Nittany" derives from the Algonquian word meaning "single mountain."
The club was founded with the help of William Ernst, another Lion. It adopted the high school's colors of maroon and gold. The club also created the acronym Leadership, Experience, Opportunity for the word Leo. The word equality was later changed to experience. In 1964 the Leo Club Program became a sponsored program of the Lions Clubs ...
"The Lions (so-named in keeping with the jungle cat image of the city's baseball team, the Tigers) also got a refurbished team bus, painted silver and blue, and used it to travel to their games ...
The Lions Eye Bank located at San Martino Hospital in Genova is dedicated to Melvin Jones. In 2017, the United States Mint issued a non-circulating commemorative coin honoring the centennial of the Lions Club; the obverse (heads side) features a depiction of Melvin Jones.
The Lions also finished with a regular-season record of 14–3–1, The best in club history. The Lions felt confident heading into the Western Final, but their dreams of second consecutive Grey Cup title came to an end in a heartbreaking 26–17 loss to the eventual Grey Cup champions, the Saskatchewan Roughriders.