At a meeting of the Old Pinks (Football) held in the Summer Term it was determined that the uniform of the football eleven should include black stockings and knickerbockers; the Captain having the option of wearing white instead of black knickerbockers.
Dr Scott has given permission for the house elevens at cricket & football to wear caps of a distinguishing colour. The caps for College are to be dark green and light blue for Grant’s, chocolate & light blue, for Rigaud’s, black & orange, & for Home Boarders, crimson and light blue. William Bell Prin: opp:
Scott has decided that Boys in the Upper & Under fifth may wear cutaways but no one below that from February 18.
Scott has now made a rule that now the winter is coming on, any fellow may wear a blue cap. This being the former colour of the 22 cap, their colour is now changed to pink & white. Egerton G B Phillimore. Prin. Opp. Oct. 1873
In consequence of a number of fellows in the Sixth and Remove having taken to wearing ‘cut-aways’ instead of the ‘tail-coat’, Lush and I asked Scott whether there was any rule about it; after a few days he told us that he had consulted the Masters & thought that as long as dark coats were…
Some complaint having been made by the Masters at the Boarding Houses of the T. B.’s having to wear their hats on the way to and from fields, the following rule was promulgated by the Head Master:- “That all Town Boys in any Eleven or Twenty-two at Cricket shall be allowed to wear their proper…
The Bishop’s boys about this term left off wearing the blue gown
It having been for some time in contemplation to abolish the breeches of the Q.S. & to institute trousers in their place an order to that effect was after Whitsuntide issued by Dr Turton Dean of Westminster. The colours specified were, as I understood any thing between black & white but this was of course…