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Victory, New York

Victory, Saratoga County, New York (A small village in the town of Saratoga, New York)


1973 Thomas Cup

In the European zone England was upset 4–5 by a solid West German squad that featured a world class singles player in Wolfgang Bochow who won both of his matches, as well as a world class doubles team in Roland Maywald and Willi Braun who won the last match of the tie to clinch the victory.

2006 Mountain West Conference football season

After being trounced by their former Southwest Conference rivals, 70-35, in Lubbock two years prior, the Horned Frog defense kept quarterback Graham Harrell and the Red Raider offense out of the endzone for the entire game, JR linebacker walk on Christopher Abbott led the defense with one sack, 8 tackles 3 for a loss of yards and one interception, to earn their fourth consecutive victory over the Big 12.

Alain Chevallier

In 1982, Didier de Radiguès rode a Chevallier-designed bike to victory in the 350cc Yugoslavian Grand Prix and finished the season in second place in the F.I.M. 350cc world championship.

Alberta Alliance Party

The party managed a narrow victory in the Progressive Conservative stronghold of Cardston-Taber-Warner, where Paul Hinman became the first MLA elected under the Alliance banner, defeating incumbent Broyce Jacobs.

Aldo Donelli

In a 4-2 qualifying victory over Mexico in Rome, Italy on May 24, he tallied all four times, becoming the first American to score his first three international goals with the senior team in the same match (Sacha Kljestan would become the second to achieve this feat on January 24, 2009).

Alexander Dimitrenko

The fight was stopped in the fifth round, giving Dimitrenko his fourth consecutive victory by T.K.O. and was the sixth title defense of his WBO Inter-Continental Heavyweight belt.

Alexander Kazarsky

Kazarsky was the captain of brig Mercury and became famous after the victory in the battle against two Turkish ships of the line.

Alnwick RFC

They clinched promotion by finishing as champions of Durham & Northumberland 1 with a 10–28 victory against Medicals RFC in the final game of the season.

Austin Dillon

On July 11, 2010, Dillon scored his first career NASCAR victory in the Lucas Oil 200 at Iowa Speedway in the Camping World Truck Series and won a Truck Series race in a truck wearing the No. 3 for the first time since Bryan Reffner won for Team Menard in 2000 at Texas Motor Speedway.

Bart Voskamp

However, both cyclists were disqualified for touching each other during the sprint, so the victory went to former third place Mario Traversoni.

Biju

It is highly likely that Viju is an affectionate version of the name Vijaya, which means Victory in Sanskrit and several Indian languages.

Blazing Combat

Some dealt with historical figures, such as American Revolutionary War general Benedict Arnold and his pre-traitorous victory at the Battle of Saratoga (issue #2, Jan. 1966), while "Foragers" (issue #3, April 1966) focused on a fictitious soldier in General William T. Sherman's devastating March to the Sea during the American Civil War.

Canada–France relations

While the gradual conquest of New France by the British, culminating in Wolfe's victory at the Plains of Abraham in 1759, deprived France of her North American empire, the 'French of Canada' - Québécois or habitants, Acadians, Métis, and others - remained.

Capture of Owerri

The Capture of Owerri was a major victory for the Biafrans because the victory opened up telephone lines, enhanced road telecommunications, and showed that with stiff resistance Biafra could defeat Nigerian forces.

Carham

In 1016 or 1018 the Battle of Carham between the Kingdom of Scotland and the Northumbrians resulted in a Scottish victory.

Cristian Ianu

Ianu suffered a serious leg injury in Luzern's 4-1 victory away at FC Basel which has ruled him out of much of the 2010-11 campaign.

Dave Glinka

Glinka completed 5 of 11 passes against Oregon and threw two touchdown passes (to George Mans and Scott Maentz) to lead the Wolverines to a 21-0 victory.

Demetrio Albertini

Arrigo Sacchi's team selection for the second group game against Czech Republic was based on the presumption that after the victory over Russia and in the light of the upcoming German clash, Italy could afford playing without a series of key players including Albertini.

Doug Swift

Swift's blitz late in the second quarter of Super Bowl VII forced Washington Redskins quarterback Billy Kilmer to make a hurried throw, which Nick Buoniconti intercepted and returned into Washington territory to set up the Dolphins' second touchdown in a 14-7 victory, cementing Miami's 17-0 season.

Drisan James

James is best known for his performance in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, where he caught two touchdown passes against the University of Oklahoma and helped lead Boise State to a 43-42 victory in overtime.

Galen Rupp

He also led a young Oregon team to victory over the Stanford Cardinal, who had won the previous six Pac-10 titles.

Georges Diebolt

He treated with equal eclecticism religious subjects such as Saint John the Evangelist (placed on the first story of the tower of Saint-Jacques in Paris during its 1852 restoration) and modern themes, such as the 1854 Maritime Victory on the pont d'Austerlitz.

Giuseppe Sartori

He painted a few historical subjects: La galera d'Oufrè Giustinian announces to Venice the Victory at Lepanto.

Gonzalo Herrero

A product of local giants Racing de Santander's youth system, Gonzalo made his first team debut on 13 December 2012, starting in a 3–2 home victory against Rayo Vallecano, for Copa del Rey.

Grand Port District

In 1810, a French squadron of frigates achieved an ultimately futile naval victory over a comparable British squadron at the Battle of Grand Port, near the Île de la Passe.

Holden Special Vehicles

With Garth Tander and Rick Kelly driving the two cars, the newly renamed team struggled in its first few outings in 2005, they found form later in the season, and from round 1 led the 2006 Championship to victory.

Jerome Pathon

He gained 1,299 yards receiving that year, an average of 108.3 yards per game, including 4 receptions for 54 yards in the Huskies' 51-23 victory over Michigan State in the 1997 Aloha Bowl.

Kalinin K-7

The existence of the aircraft had only recently been announced by Pravda which declared it was " victory of the utmost political importance" since it had been built with steel produced in the USSR rather than imported.

Kevin Dillon

Entourage cast member Jerry Ferrara was the best man at the wedding and Kevin Connolly walked Stuart down the aisle after Dillon shouted "Victory!" (a tribute to his character's work on the metafictional TV series Viking Quest).

Keyshawn Johnson

The Trojans then played in the 1996 Rose Bowl, during which Johnson caught 12 passes for a Rose Bowl record 216 yards and one touchdown in the Trojans' 41–32 victory over the Northwestern Wildcats.

L. D. Meyer

He kicked the winning field goal in the famous 3-2 TCU victory over LSU in the 1936 Sugar Bowl.

Mickley

Bob Stokoe, professional footballer and later manager,who won an FA Cup winners medal as a player with Newcastle United In 1955, and later managed Sunderland to victory in the same competition in 1973.

Neal Foulds

Following victory in the national under-19′s Championship, Neal then turned professional in 1983 and at the end of the season qualified for final stages of the World Championship at the first attempt.

Neil Simpson

In 1982–83, he played in every one of the matches of the Dons’ 1983 European Cup Winners Cup campaign, scoring a goal in the 3–2 victory over FC Bayern Munich in the second leg of the quarter-finals and becoming one of the “Gothenburg Greats” who lifted the trophy after beating Real Madrid in the 1983 Final.

Nikopol, Ukraine

Later it was renamed into Slovianske and then Nikopol, meaning the city of Nika or Victory (1781) due to the conquest of the Zaporizhia.

Penicuik RFC

Most notable amongst those is Jim Aitken, who captained the Scotland team to a Grand Slam victory in the 1984 Five Nations tournament.

Penn State–Pittsburgh football rivalry

Pitt's coach Johnny Majors moved Tony Dorsett to fullback for the second half, and the Panthers went on to defeat Penn State, 24–7, finishing the regular season 11–0, on their way to a Sugar Bowl victory over Georgia and their first National Championship in 39 years.

Portuguese presidential election, 2006

The result was a victory in the first round for Aníbal Cavaco Silva of the Social Democratic Party candidate, the former Prime Minister, won 50.54 percent of the vote in the first round, just over the majority required to avoid a runoff election.

Proposition bet

:*Betting on specific aspects of the pageantry surrounding a sporting event, such as a) the duration of the word "brave" in the pregame performance of the U.S. national anthem or b) the color of the Gatorade or other sports drink dumped on the winning team's coach in the traditional practical joke and victory ritual known as Gatorade shower

Quilliam

John Quilliam (1771–1829), a British Royal Navy officer and the First Lieutenant on HMS Victory at the Battle of Trafalgar

Ralph de Stafford, 1st Earl of Stafford

Further battles included the battle of Auberoche, the siege of Aiguillon, from where he escaped prior to its lifting, a raid on Barfleur and the English victory at the Battle of Crecy, on 26 August 1346.

Reggie Pridmore

This record stood stood till the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, where India's Balbir Singh, Sr. scored 5 goals in India's 6-1 victory over Holland.

Rosenborg BK

Frazer Wright's goal earned the Scottish side a memorable 1-0 victory in Norway before fighting back from an early goal to draw 1-1 at home.

Scott Dreisbach

In Lloyd Carr's debut as Michigan head coach, the Wolverines trailed 17–0 at home in the fourth quarter before the redshirt freshman Dreisbach engineered three scoring drives, the last culminating with a touchdown pass to Mercury Hayes as time expired for a 18–17 Michigan victory.

Sikh scriptures

Zafarnamah (epistle of victory, a letter written to Emperor Aurangzeb)

Søren Marinus Jensen

Following a victory against the German, he faced and defeated the Belgian Debouis and then Bauer from Austria in order to win the gold medal in the heavyweight class, at which point King George I of Greece called out to him in congratulation.

Station Road, Swinton

Britain's comprehensive victory over the French at Swinton was marred by the first double sending-off in World Cup annals, France's skipper Jean Barthe and Britain's second-rower Vince Karalius being despatched by Edouard Martung, a police inspector from Bordeaux.

Sun dog

The Yorkist commander, later Edward IV of England, convinced his initially frightened troops that it represented the three sons of the Duke of York, and Edward's troops won a decisive victory.

Vicente Nieto

The rebels were at first defeated at Cotagaita on 27 October and at Tupiza on 29 October, but collected their forces, and at Suipacha on 7 November they gained a complete victory, the royalist governor and the two royalist generals being made prisoners.

You Are the Champion

Often used during sporting events, especially for victory celebrations, a special version was recorded by Scorpions and Michael Kleitmann in honor of Michael Schumacher winning his seventh F1 Formula One Championship.


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