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Goal line   /goʊl laɪn/   Listen
Goal line

noun
1.
A line marking each end of the playing field or pitch; where the goals stand.





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"Goal line" Quotes from Famous Books



... goal before the guard of the stone can tag him. If he reaches it in safety he has a chance to throw again. When some one succeeds in knocking off the stone all who have thrown may pick up stones and run back to the goal line, while the guard replaces the stone on the rock and tries to tag any one who has his stone in his hand, and who has not crossed the goal line. Whoever is tagged ...
— Healthful Sports for Boys • Alfred Rochefort
... weighs 163 pounds, and | |hails from Indiana. | | | |Ollie was the boy. Before the first period of the | |game was more than half over, there was a fumble by | |a Navy back and an Army man fell upon the ball only | |eight yards away from the goal line of the | |midshipmen. | | | |There was the crash of an Army back against the Navy| |line, and just a little weakening. There was another| |impact of a cadet against a wall that was almost but| |not quite solid. There remained about two or three | |yards ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer


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