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Eton fives including a buttress and inside the court, and an open back wall. Other variants of the game include Warminster and Winchester fives; Winchester...

Rugby fives is a handball game, similar to squash, played in an enclosed court. It has similarities with Winchester fives (a form of Wessex fives) and...

October 2020. "Sport: Winchester College Football". Winchester College. Retrieved 8 October 2020. "Get Active: Why Winchester Fives is better than squash"...

August 2013. "South Winchester Golf Club". Retrieved 10 December 2020. "Arcane public school games explained: Anyone for Rugby Fives, The Field Game or...

Rugby fives is a handball game, similar to squash, played in an enclosed court. It has similarities with Winchester fives (a form of Wessex fives) and...

school, I was forced to play a weekly game of fives, as well as a peculiarly brutal game known as Winchester College football, which normally resulted in...

others being Sherborne, Harrow and Eton. Formerly this group included Winchester, although the latter school is currently undergoing a transition to co-ed...

transcribed. Henry appointed Winchester's headmaster, William Waynflete, as Eton's Provost, and transferred some of Winchester's 70 scholars to start his...

in five different sports (cricket, football, rackets, squash and Rugby fives) and captain in four and was a successful amateur cricketer for Cambridge...

offensive line of the 1980s and early 1990s (deemed one of the best front fives of NFL history), which was a mainstay of the Redskins' glory years during...

play tennis, squash, Eton Fives, basketball, field hockey, golf and table tennis against other independent boarding schools. Fives has been played at Sunningdale...

was educated at Winchester College, where he won a scholarship at the age of 13, and excelled at sports, especially cricket and fives. He was active in...

Fleet debtors' prisons. The prisoners modified the game of fives (in the process creating Bat Fives) by using tennis rackets to speed up the action. They played...

laboratories, and a swimming bath was dug nearby, followed by the building of the fives courts the following year. The sanatorium in was completed in 1887, and...

course, hard tennis courts, 20-metre indoor pool, squash courts, and Eton fives courts. In June 2021 the school welcomed back old boy Bear Grylls to officially...

Hampstead, Morant was the older brother of Amy Morant. He was educated at Winchester College and New College, Oxford where he took a First in Theology. After...

was an athletic standout: a member of the rugby football third team, the fives first team, and captain of the cricket team, for which he was a bowler.[citation...

originally this functioned as accommodation for bachelor masters Three fives courts (1864) The original sanitorium (1865) Gymnasium (1867) Two swimming...

colours, although these did not extend to a full blazer. Rather, athletics, fives, shooting, boxing, tennis, swimming, gymnastics, fencing and waterpolo had...

Cambridge, at a meeting attended by representatives from Eton, Harrow, Rugby, Winchester and Shrewsbury schools. They were not universally adopted. During the...