Antedating of "Rugger"

Shapiro, Fred fred.shapiro at YALE.EDU
Sat Jun 21 01:09:13 UTC 2014


rugger, n.2 (OED 1889)

1888 _Oxford Magazine_ 15 Feb. 224 (Google Books)  Golf is perhaps seven or eight years old in Oxford, lawn-tennis about ten, football _seu_ Rugger, _sire_ Soccer, not more than sixteen or seventeen.

Fred Shapiro

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