SPORT ANCIENT AND MODERN 



Dulwich was engaged. St. Paul's and Mer- 

 chant Taylors School had both dropped out 

 for the time. Merchant Taylors School was 

 played, however, once in 1882, and defeated 

 by eight goals and six tries. Bedford Gram- 

 mar School had a year before been played for 

 the first time, and had won easily. The 

 Haileybury match, which was first played in 

 1 89 1, has been a regular fixture up to date. 

 After having been in abeyance since 1873, 

 the meeting with St. Paul's School was re- 

 vived in 1891. Merchant Taylors re-ap- 

 peared on the card again in 1896, and for 

 the last six years Tonbridge School, Bedford 

 Grammar School, Haileybury College, St. 

 Paul's School and Merchant Taylors School 

 have all been met annually. Naturally the 

 interest centres chiefly in the matches with 

 Tonbridge and Bedford, which have been 

 played regularly since 1874 and 1881 

 respectively. Dulwich football indeed has 

 particular reason to speak well of the Bedford 

 team, who have won sixteen of the twenty- 

 eight matches decided. 



Dulwich College has certainly played an 

 important part in Inter-University, Inter- 

 County and International football. 



The following is a list of International caps 

 and University Blues up to 1903 : — 



England.— S. Ellis (1880) ; W.R. M. Leake 

 (1891) ; C. M. WeUs (1893-4-6-7) ; B. C. 

 Hartley (1901-2). 



Scotland. — N. F. Henderson (1891). 



Cambridge.— P. H. Clifiord (1876-7-8); 

 J. J. Gover (1879) ; E. S. Chapman (1879-80); 

 J. L. Templer (i 881-2) ; W. R. M. Leake 

 (1885-6-7) ; R. N. Douglas (1891) ; C. M. 

 Wells (1891-2) ; B. C. Hartley (1900) ; P. 

 Powell (1900). 



Oxford.— N. F. Henderson (1886). 



The methods in force at Dulwich for the 

 proper organization of football were brought 

 to their present effective state under the 

 captaincy of W. D. Gibbon in 1897 and 1898. 

 The system can be easily explained. The 

 captain, as soon as the term begins, collects 

 the names of all the boys who are to play. 

 These are divided into games, each of which 

 has its own captain to look after it. After the 

 games on a half holiday there is a meeting of 

 the game captains under the general direction 

 of the captain, who receives the names of 

 absentees and makes promotions. In order 

 to stimulate keenness as many teams as 

 possible are given foreign matches. As an 

 illustration on the day of the Old Alleynian 

 matches as many as ten teams have been 

 turned out. 



Besides this system of half holiday games, 

 in the Easter term there are form cup 

 matches. The forms are divided into divisions, 

 and the first two play for a cup. There is 

 also a cup for the forms of the Junior School 

 and for the Boarding Houses. These form 

 matches are very valuable, as many a boy is 

 thus persuaded to play for his form who under 

 other circumstances would never have thought 

 of playing. There is also a cup for the best 

 side as weU as for the best form. These 

 struggles between the various sides produce 

 some very good matches, although as a rule 

 the classical side is too powerful. 



The following is a summary of the school 

 matches up to 1903 :- 



Opponents. 

 Tonbridge 

 Bedford 

 St. Paul's 

 Haileybury 

 Merchant Taylors 



Played. 

 40 



37 

 16 



Won. Lost. 

 18 II 



12 

 12 



13 



12 



5 

 II 



16 

 2 

 6 



Drawn. 

 II 

 8 

 2 

 I 

 o 



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