Word: slogger
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...foot-ball, and that the percentage of accidents in the hunting field very far exceeds that of foot-ball accidents. He still reads that famous chapter descriptive of the schoolhouse match in "Tom Brown"-a chapter which, next to the other famous one concerning the fight between Tom and Slogger Williams, has been more read by English boys than any other of any other book in the language-as he used to read it at school. He recalls the private school matches-games of the mildest description, pursued under the immediate eye of a master. He remembers his transfer...
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