PUSH BALL A game usually played on foot but sometimes on horseback, in which the object is to push or force a huge ball over the opponents' goal line.
In a touchdown the ball is carried by one of the players and touched on the ground behind the opponents' goal line.
This player (team A) must take a position with his advanced foot on the goal line and sling the sack with a straight arm over his head towards the opponent's goal line.
Each team lines up on a goal line facing in the same direction, Team A facing the center of the playing space, Team B facing away from the center.
Teams take places on the opposite sides of the table and endeavor to blow the egg shell over a goal line which is made two inches from and parallel to their opponents' side of the table.
Succeeding, the one catching the sack advances three paces and from that position slings the sack over his head towards team A's goal line.
The opponents' goalkeeper shall not advance beyond his goal line.
A suitable mark shall be made opposite the centre of each goal twelve yards from the goal line; this shall be the penalty kick mark.
Now, however, it was going steadily toward the Navy's goal line, and the interest of the spectators was intense.
The air trembled with the vibration of that surging yell as Cadet Prescott raced across Lehigh's goal line.
So it was the full force of the charging Army line that pushed Cadet Holmes through and over the goal line.
In a twinkling he had it down behind Fordham's goal line.
Some one had to take that ball and drop it behind Hallam's goal line.
But at last, when forced half way down the field between center and its own goal line, Gridley blocked so well in the three following plays that the pigskin came to the home eleven.
That had happened again and again during Wilton's successful march to Ridgley's goal line.
Ten days before the big game, during a scrimmage in front of the scrub's goal line, White's weak ankle gave way sharply beneath him with the result that the bone was cracked and White was out of the game for the season.
So swift and sudden had been the deluge that the halfback was carried off his feet and over the goal line before he had even a chance to yell "down.
The Pawling team had twice succeeded in stopping the Freshmen near the Pawling goal line, and the substitute quarter had fumbled a punt which for a moment threatened a touchdown against his team.
Good boy," he shouted as Madden changed the signal, and the fullback, who had gone back behind the goal line, came running up again to the regular formation.
As though they had darted around the right end of the football battle line, and had sighted the enemy's goal line, Prescott and Holmes charged straight for the infuriated fellow.
Panting, all but fainting, Dick was over the enemy's goal line and he had the ball down.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "goal line" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
