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Football

noun

Any of various games played with a ball (round or oval) in which two teams try to kick or carry or propel the ball into each other's goal. Synonym: football game.

The inflated oblong ball used in playing American football.

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"Football" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Prato, which at that time was a large open space within the walls, where the Florentine youth played at their favourite Calcio—a peculiar kind of football—and otherwise exercised themselves. At this mid-day time it was forsaken and quiet to the very gates, where a tent had been erected in preparation for the race. On the border of this wide meadow, Tito ...

— Romola • George Eliot

... educated, I say, as things go. But how far is that? "I have five clerks in my office," said a Bradford merchant lately, "who probably could tell me all I want to know and more, about a horse race, a cricket, or a football match; and not one of them could translate for me a foreign business letter. This is one principal reason," he added, "why Bradford is overrun with Germans, and why the Germans are getting hold of so much of our trade." On what is called the practical side of life, the first duty ...

— Men in the Making • Ambrose Shepherd

... an Etonian who had seen one or two football accidents, knelt down, deadly pale, by Radowitz and rendered a rough first-aid. By a tourniquet of handkerchiefs he succeeded in checking the bleeding. But it was evident that an artery ...

— Lady Connie • Mrs. Humphry Ward

... constantly told, must be brightened. Why not allow spectators to assault the umpires, just as if they were football referees? ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 156, June 4, 1919. • Various

... half-hour later on the polo field. Next to wealth, sport has become the ambition of the wealthy classes, and has grown so into our college life that the number of students in the freshman class of our great universities is seriously influenced by that institution's losses or gains at football. ...

— Worldly Ways and Byways • Eliot Gregory

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