Old School Football Song (modified)
"Forty years on, when afar and asunder
Parted are those who are reading today,
When you look back, and forgetfully wonder
What you were like in your work and your play,
Visions of boyhood shall float them before you,
Echoes of dreamland shall bear them along,
How we rejoiced as we struggled and panted,
Hardly believable, forty years on!
Forty years on, growing older and older,
Shorter in wind, as in memory long,
Feeble of foot, and rheumatic of shoulder,
What will it help you that once you were strong?
Never the battle raged hottest, but in it,
Neither the last nor the faintest, were we!
Fights for the fearless, and goals for the eager,
Twenty, and thirty, and forty years on! " .
Listen to the Harrow School rendition |
Preserving the past - Use it or Lose it !
Many rugby club houses around the world are decorated with old team photos from bygone days.
If the negatives have long since been lost, why not take them down, scan them into your PC (with as higher definition setting as possible). Not only will you be able to make your web site more interesting by adding to your clubs history online, but you can then re-print new copies of the photos for the clubhouse should the originals get damaged or faded and you will be helping preserve the history of the great sport of Rugby.
For advice on how to preserve documents and garments from the past, pop along to your local museum and they would be very glad to give you advice. |
Educational Enquiries
I get hundreds of emails each year from students all over the world, whilst I make every attempt to answer all of them, please be patient. Also check the web site carefully as sometimes the answer you are looking for is already detailed on the site.
Check FAQ section as well |
Audio for the blind or partially sighted
Recently I have started to add some audio recordings to the web site which may be of particular interest to those who are blind or partially sighted.
You can find them here. |
Say goodbye to the old Lansdowne Road.
