Word: aways
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...down," or "dribble it," as the phrase goes elsewhere than at Eton, keeping it as much between his feet as possible. To see a skilled player do this at top speed, winding in and out among his opponents, with the ball never more than a foot or two away from him, is a pretty sight, and it is prettier still to watch him "running it down the line" with all the players crowding round him on the watch for a "rouge;" as an enthusiastic Etonian has been heard to observe, "it is the poetry of football!" A "rouge...
Ranged in similar fashion the foe charges down on the ball, and then commences a struggle till the ball is either forced through the goal posts by one side, or carried by the other away from that dangerous vicinity back into the enemy's country. This is the roughest part of the Eton game, and is sometimes, no doubt, where the match is a keen one, as for the House Cup, very rough. While the game is confined to boys, however, no very great harm is likely to ensue, and, as a rule, the Eton game may, we think...
...revival itself there is no question. Thirty years or so ago, for example, the game was hardly known at the Universities, was at best pursued by some exuberent freshmen, Etonians mostly, who had not yet outgrown their salad days. Now our "young barbarians" of Oxford and Cambridge kick away at each other's shins as keenly as they hit each other's bowling about the Lord's, or tug away at each other year by year from Putney to Mortlake. The county elevens who compete for the challenge cup of the Football Association are chosen with almost as much care...
...which may be described as a sort of compromise between all rules, are more lenient ; for by them the goal-keeper may in defence of his post make use of his hands in any way save in carrying the ball ; he may stop it with them, or hit it away. But in the Eton field even that last resource is denied ; even in the sorest straits, by the feet, and by the feet alone, must the goal be saved.-[Review...
...words of my informer, "Each rusher was told to back up' some other individual rusher, and if he was not there, he was 'cussed.'" Now I do not advocate the "cussing" part, but it seems to me, that much of the recklessness, and uncertainty in play could be done away with provided some such action as this should be taken. Let each man be told to back up some other particular man. And when this man gets the ball, he will be expected to be there by every man on the team. Then the rest of the team...