[Ads-l] leave it all on the field

[Wilson Gray]

On Sat, Nov 12, 2016 at 10:51 AM, Charles C Doyle <cdoyle at uga.edu> wrote:

> It's an old expression beloved of football coaches and sportscasters.
>

I agree. OTOH, though it seems to me that this expression is two days older
than water and it gets about 2.000,000 hits, the oldest is from only 1996.
And it's the sole pre-21st-C. hit.

Youneverknow.
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-Wilson
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