ABSTRACT
Mid-Victorian England saw the emergence of a novel kind of schoolmaster – the athletic pedagogue. 2 The introduction of games into the curriculum of the English public school for a variety of reasons: expedience, image or idealism 3 by forceful and despotic headmasters such as Temple of Rugby, Thring of Uppingham and Almond of Loretto, in harmony with developments at Oxford and Cambridge, created for him a fresh image; one which in time was adopted to a greater or lesser extent in the schools of the empire, the late-nineteenth-century middle-class grammar schools and the secondary schools of the post Balfour Education Act of 1902. 4
