subs. (football).—A skirmisher good at taking, and running with, the ball.
1864. B. HEMYNG, Eton School Days, ch. 23, p. 255. He possessed good wind, and was a very good ‘kick-off,’ and he could ‘bully’ a ball as well as any one. He was a little too heavy for ‘FLYING-MAN,’ but he made a decent ‘sidepost,’ and now and then he officiated as ‘corner.’
