英语词汇down的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	down
词源	down. A completed play has been called a down in football since the late 19th century, Walter Camp’s Book of College Sports (1893) explaining that it was so named because a tack- led ball carrier cried “down” when he was stopped by the op- posite side and could go no farther. This got the other side off his back.
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