21-Dec-2008, 02:48 AM
Interesting stuff about peoples pt and sports teachers - did anyone else go to Worden? I recall George Grimes who by the standards of what I have just read was a gentleman and a scholar. He didn't much like weaklings and I was a small thin type- I recall him getting us all to strip down to our pe shorts and pumps, no shirts allowed,and have a full half hour of snowball fighting when there was snow, in two teams facing each other from about 5 yards. Or the rugby we played on frozen ground with muddy puddles covered with a thin layer of ice that we got flattened into when we tackled each other. I was one of the first to end up with a chest type pneumonia infection from it, but it was all very character building - not too sure what type of character it built - probably a spectator sport character. I probably fell into the weakling category as I wasn't one of his favorites, but he seemed fair, I recall he had played football for England schoolboys himself and was a very good football coach, a probable further reason he didn't take much to me. Does anyone know him or remember him - he wasn't a tyrant at least, as I remember some to be and as so many teachers became as their teaching careers bogged down.