ABSTRACT
Realise the importance of games. It’s in football and cricket and rowing that Englishmen get that splendid moral training which no other nation gets. Germany and France overwork their boys, … nearly always they are stunted and weak. None of them get that magnificent sporting instinct which is the real foundation of our great Empire. So what I want to say to you boys is: ‘Play up and play the game.’ Be proud of your reputation for efficiency in games – it is the source of … higher imperial efficiency. 2
