Posted by Adam Quinan on September 10, 2000 at 05:14:03 from proxy1-external.ym1.on.home.com:
In Reply to: Re: Schools (was: Re: PM: Roger & Latin) posted by Bob Hollis on September 09, 2000 at 22:21:45:
Football (the non-North American term for Soccer) was always the more popular game at local day schools and surprisingly Eton. Most other "public" schools had rugger (rugby football, the 15 a side Union game) as their major autumn term sport.
One saying current when I was at school was that "Football is a gentlemen's game played by hooligans, rugger is a hooligan's game played by gentlemen".