School Life At Winchester College Or the Reminiscences of a Winchester Junior
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About two acres in the centre of Meads was slightly raised above the rest on a chalk founda- tion, and covered with turf, which was most care- fully kept, and constantly rolled, and in winter fenced all round. This, which was called par excellence " Turf/' was kept sacred for the use of the Prefects and the first eleven, (called Senior Match ;) except two corners, which were allotted to Middle and Junior Match, the former consist- ing of the second eleven arid Senior part, and the latter of the... third eleven. But I must now proceed t}, a game I like (or rather, used to like) far more than cricket. The reason is simple ; I was a tolerably good hand at the former, and rather a muff at the latter. Of all the games of football that I have seen, I think none can compare in interest to the Winchester The junior in Meads. 1 3 7 " Six and Six/'* I hate the crowded games of] twenty or thirty a-side, where for one kick at the 1 V ball you receive a dozen on your shins. In " Six / and Six" your powers of pluck, endurance, strength, \ and sgeed are constantly called into play ; it is not J all weight and hustling, but speed and scientific kicking, that win the day.
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