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Own goal

noun

(soccer) a goal that results when a player inadvertently knocks the ball into the goal he is defending.

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"Own goal" Quotes from Famous Books

... a cricket-ball, formed of cork or light wood and covered with silver, was hurled into the air, midway between the goals. Both parties immediately rushed towards it, each striving to seize and carry it to his own goal. In this contest, when any individual having possession of the ball found himself overpowered or outrun by his opponents, he hurled it to one of his own side, if near enough, or if not into some pool, ditch, furze, brake, garden, house, or other place of concealment, to prevent his adversaries ...

— The Cornwall Coast • Arthur L. Salmon

... down a flag or a handkerchief at her own goal, and each side tries to capture the flags of the other; once she touches the opponent's flag she cannot be taken prisoner, but goes back with the flag ...

— How Girls Can Help Their Country • Juliette Low

... of America. And yet one thinks of it at other times as one vast graveyard; so thick it is with the ashes and the bones of men! The Pope—and Crispi!—waves, both of them, on a sea of life that gave them birth, "with equal mind"; and that with equal mind will sweep them both to its own goal—not theirs.' ...

— Eleanor • Mrs. Humphry Ward

Words linked to "Own goal" : goal, association football, soccer