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The first references to goals are from the late 16th and early 17th hundreds of years. In 1584 and 1602 respectively, John Norden and Richard Carew referred to "goals" in Cornish hurling. Carew described how goals were being designed: "they pitch two bushes in the bottom, some 8 or 10 foote asunder; and directly in opposition to them, ten or twelue