1871. Times, “Report of the Debate in House of Lords on University Test Bill.” The test proposed would be wholly ineffective; ... while it would apply to the college tutors, who had little influence over the young men, it would not affect the COACHES, who had the chief direction of their studies.
1889. Pall Mall Gazette, 29th Nov., p. 1, col. 3. The schoolmaster is concerned with the education of boys up to eighteen; all beyond that falls either to the COACH or the professor.
1891. Harry Fludyer at Cambridge, 15. Our COACH is always finding fault with me.
Coaching, subs. (Rugby: obsolete).—A flogging.
Coat. To get one’s coat, verb. phr. (Harrow).—To be made a member of the “Sixth Form Game”; the equivalent of the “Twenty-two” at other schools: cricket.
Cob, subs. (Winchester).—A hard hit at cricket; a slogger: a recent introduction. Also as verb (common), to detect; to catch.
Verb. 1. (Stonyhurst).—To purloin oranges, &c., after a Do (q.v.): e.g. “Cob for me,” sometimes whispered by an envious disappointed one to a fortunate friend as he goes into the “Do-room.”
2. (Harrow).—In the verbal sense of COB = to detect; to catch (see subs., ante); the practice at Harrow is almost always to use the word in the passive, with “badly”: e.g. “I was badly COBBED ‘tollying-up’” (q.v.).
Cock, subs. (Stonyhurst).—An elevation from which, at football, a GUARDER (q.v.) kicks balls which “go out”: it corresponds to the “tee” at golf.
To be cocked up, verb. phr. (Charterhouse).—See quot.