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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



... 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
... a half Yale and Princeton had been battling on the gridiron; for an hour and a half the struggling lines had advanced and retreated from goal line to goal line; for an hour and a half the ball had gone arching up against the blue November sky, had been carried in short, desperate plunges or brilliant runs to and fro over the trampled white lines of Yale Field; for an hour and a half twenty-five thousand persons had watched the varying ...
— The New Boy at Hilltop • Ralph Henry Barbour
... similar object may be used, placed on some support—on a stake driven into the ground, laid over a rock or stool, or hung on the end of a branch. A stone or dumb-bell laid on the ground may be substituted. In line with the club a starting base is marked on each goal line. ...
— Games for the Playground, Home, School and Gymnasium • Jessie H. Bancroft
... goal. The last defense was thrown headlong, and the field was wide open for the run; and the quarterback was running for the honor of his team, his school, his undying fame in the college world. Three yards to the goal line, and victory would be his. All Lagonda Ledge held its breath as Vic Burleigh tore through a tangle of tackles and sprang forward with long, space-eating bounds. He seemed to leap through ten feet of air, straight over the ...
— A Master's Degree • Margaret Hill McCarter
... 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 to go. | | | |Ollie was hurled in. He took ...
— News Writing - The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories • M. Lyle Spencer


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