Yet Further Antedating of "Goalie"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Thu Jul 10 01:12:16 UTC 2014


goalie (OED 1921)

1895 _Dundee Courier_ 5 Apr. 5 (British Newspaper Archive)  Murray (the goalie for the Reserves) was much damaged by a charge, and if it had not been for this the score would have stood different.

Fred Shapiro

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