British Preparatory Schools: Games--Schedules
Figure 1.--Here we see boys in their afternoon classes before ganmes. Boys playing a cricket match with another school have chnged into their whites.
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Many schools devote large parts of the afternoon to sports at least three times a week. The children change into sports gear for the majior sports, but deoending in just what was olanned they may just put on sneakers. This often means practices for those children skilled enough to make the various teams and matches with other schools. Matches are planned bduring the school week and especially on saturday afternoons. The other children both engaged in practices for the major sports and a more recreationally sports for those less athletically gifted. Sometimes special provision was made for the boys hoplessly unsuited for sports. The prep schools are small schools and individual differences can be accomodated in away that was not the case in earlier years. Often the English weather refuses to cooperate with the time schedule and most schools make full use of gymnasiums or sport halls. Some schools give particularly intense emphasis to athletics and have developed particularly strong sports traditions, but sport is important in almost all prep schools. It is no accident that the AHSP was created at a meeting to regulate the size of cricket balls used at prep school matches.
