Further Antedating of "Goalie"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Thu Jul 10 00:40:17 UTC 2014


goalie (OED 1921)

1897 _Dundee Courier_ 25 Mar. 7 (British Newspaper Archive)  The old Arbroath "goalie," therefore, should again defend the Scottish sticks against the attacks of the English foe.

Fred Shapiro



Fred Shapiro


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