The Summer Field

97 Schooling Clifton College, whose Victorian old boy Sir Henry Newbolt wrote the poem Vitai Lampada, including the line ‘play up, play up and play the game!’, another linking of cricket and (colonial) war. Cricket as ornament and selling point for a fee-paying school: School Close, Rugby School. The old boys of fee-paying schools did not only seek to control the present, by taking places in county and MCC teams, and as judges, Cabinet ministers, administrators and admirals. They claimed the Victorian past as theirs, without explaining what schools (if any) the likes of Lillywhite and Clarke came from. In a foreword to Corinthians and Cricketers , a 1955 history of amateurs by Edward Grayson, C.B.Fry claimed: