Boris Johnson Eton Wall Game

One of the few things i have in common with boris johnson is that we both have our names on a board marking the winners and medallists of the newcastle scholarship at eton. Actually that is not quite right. And he evidently hopes to raise a laugh in the process.
boris johnson eton wall game

The eton wall game is a game which bears some resemblance to rugby union that originated at and is still played at eton college.

Boris johnson eton wall game. This is young boris johnson as an eton college sixth former in 1982 captaining one of the teams in the schools famous wall game. Or the angry lament contained in the jams eton rifles with its larkin esque opening line. It is played on a strip of ground 5 metres wide and 110 metres long the furrow next to a slightly curved brick wall the wall erected in 1717. The eton wall gameis a game which bears some resemblance to rugby unionthat originated at and is still played at eton college.

Sup up your beer and collect your fags theres a row going. The eternally mysterious wall game. It is played on a strip of ground 5 metres wide and 110 metres long the furrow next to a slightly curved brick wall the wall erected in 1717. Johnson front row centre prepares to lead his team at the eton wall game 1982 news syndication e ven at a place like eton it didnt seem likely that anyone in my year.

Both at rugby and etons uniquely physical wall game which aptly to the uninitiated seems to have no rules boris led the charge breaking bones and egos with one sole objective to win. I won the old style newcastle scholarship covering both classics and divinity in 1975 and johnson won the newcastle classical scholarship in 1981 after the classics and divinity.