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1875 Bell's Life in London 17 Apr. 9/1 The science of steering the ball through the closely-packed ranks of opposing forwards, of dribbling it past the half-backs, and taking it on goal-wards by means of a well concerted rush, has almost been lost sight of.

1894 Manitoba Morning Free Press 22 Jan. 3/3 Macdonell, who was following closely behind sent the puck goalwards, and the umpire's hand went up.

1922 Times 15 Apr. 5/5 One of his shots, turned goalwards unhesitatingly from a centre by Dimmock, was particularly good.

1981 College Eng. 43 475 Mainly the term derives from Hegel, pulling the plug from his historical, teleological dialectics and letting it operate on pure mental energy, as ‘negative dialectics’, goalwards progressing to no goal.

1999 Guardian 26 July (Sport section) 9/8 The Wallabies..were constantly penalised by Derek Bevan for killing the ball and those resulting Mehrtens kicks soared goalwards into the black night sky.

2003 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 12 Jan. 2 Apart from Lovenkrands' early effort, the best chance arrived when Parker's cross was headed goalwards by Connolly.