football-player

football-player (plural football-players)

1. Rare form of football player.
   • 1694, Titus Petronius Arbiter, translated by Mr. Burnaby and another Hand, The Satyr of Titus Petronius Arbiter, a Roman Knight. With Its Fragments, Recover’d at Belgrade., London: […] Samuel Briscoe, […], page 66:

     We praiſed our Nativity-caſter’s pleaſantneſs, and he went on then again: The whole Heaven is Taurus, and wonder it e’er bore Football-Players, Herds-men, and ſuch as can ſhift for themſelves.

   • 1860 June 22, a Wavertree Park cricketer, “Cricket Ground, Wavertree Park”, in The Daily Post, volume VI, number 1,574, Liverpool, published 1860 June 23, page [8], column 4:

     But of late we have had some difficulties to contend with: first, in the advent of a troop of rough and noisy football-players, who, by driving their ball up and down, directly across the ground, effectually prevented all play.

   • 2017 March 27, Jim Armitage, “Football stars can only dream of bonuses for a balls-up”, in Evening Standard, page 32:

     But let’s take them at their word and ask this: if a football-player’s team drew, or lost, would he still be paid a win bonus?