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Football hero

noun

A football player who has achieved a reputation for success.

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"Football hero" Quotes from Famous Books

... the Indian in the play is a great football hero, and a sort of demi-god to his fellows. He begins to consider himself one of them—their equal—and he falls in love with the sister of his chum. But when this fact is made known his friends turn against him and try to show him the barrier of blood. At the finish a messenger comes bearing ...

— Laughing Bill Hyde and Other Stories • Rex Beach

... out at them, defensive now that it was obvious they were strangers. Were they selling something, or in what other manner were they attempting to intrude on his well being? His eyes went from the older man's thin face, to the football hero heft of the younger, then to Patricia O'Gara. His eyes went up and down her figure and became approving in spite of the ...

— The Common Man • Guy McCord (AKA Dallas McCord Reynolds)

... be examined critically—and imitated—for its excellence in centering the reader's interest upon the football hero, Oliphant,—a stroke which gives the article almost a short story unity of impression. The writer's shift from the game and the crowd to Oliphant is somewhat rough—note, for instance, "We are as loyal a Democrat as anybody else, but NO,"—but ...

— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer