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wall game

n
(Team Sports, other than specified) a type of football played at Eton against a wall
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DO any of your readers agree with me that rugby, once beautiful to watch, has become brutal, ugly and boring and very reminiscent of the Eton Wall Game?
But when they saw the armed combat which is the Eton Wall Game, the lads realised that branding them "toffs" to their face might not be such a good idea.
Like it or not, professional rugby is all about entertainment and an imitation of the Eton Wall game is not what the paying public wants.
Bournville School is only the second state school in history to be invited to learn the Eton Wall Game and take on Eton College pupils in their own Berkshire backyard.
Moyes did not like what he saw and had words with referee Steve Bennett, feeling there had been a foul in a move that would have graced the Eton wall game.
The daredevil royal took to the field in the annual Eton Wall Game.
"With an Etonian Mayor and maybe an Etonian Prime Minister I believe this game should be studied by anyone wishing to understand how Britain is governed in the 21st century" - French ambassador Maurice Gourdault-Montagne, also on the Eton Wall Game.
Student Prince Harry (centre) waits for the ball to emerge from the scrum during the 2001 Eton Wall Game - another goalless draw; PAKISTAN TOUR...
Prince Harry and team mates involved in the famous Eton wall game a few years back and, left, a beach resort at Montego Bay - how are they linked?
Moyes did not like what he saw in the build-up to that leveller and had words with referee Steve Bennett, feeling there had been a foul in a move that would have graced the Eton wall game.
Young Harry comes across as somewhat of an action man, recently he almost scored the first goal in the Eton Wall game for 100 years which is a better strike rate than Swansea City.
It's understood that Harry, who has joined in the rough and tumble of the Eton Wall Game while at school, wants to spend at least part of the year with the Welsh Guards - part of the Household Division which is responsible for guarding the Royal Family.
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