The school playing field that built an empire: Amazing photo of cricket 存在 played at Eton in 1860s is one of the oldest pictures of the sport ever taken?

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The Duke of Wellington is famously 引用するd as 説 that the 戦う／戦い of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton.

And now an amazing 150-year-old photograph has 現れるd of boys at the 私的な school playing cricket - one of the earliest images ever taken of the sport.

The earliest ever photograph of a school cricket match, and the second oldest of any cricket anywhere, has been discovered and is to be sold at auction.?

An 1860s photograph of young men playing cricket at Eton has been discovered and is to be so ld at auction. It is thought to be the second oldest image of the sport ever taken?

The photograph was 調印するd by 勝利者 A. Prout in pencil. It will be sold at auction by?Dominic Winters Auctioneers in Cirencester

DUKE OF WELLINGTON AT ETON

Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, was a British leader who is said to have 横断するd the playing fields at Eton College when he was a student in the 1780s.

The Duke …に出席するd Eton, which was 設立するd in the 15th Century by King Henry VI, before he joined the army in 1787 and later helped 敗北・負かす Napoleon at the 戦う／戦い of Waterloo in June 1815.

によれば history, he touched the ground at Eton and （人命などを）奪う，主張するd: 'There grows the stuff that won Waterloo.'

He was later misquoted 繰り返して as having said: 'It is here that the 戦う／戦い of Waterloo was won.'

His 声明s were construed by historians as 言及／関連s to the 'manly character induced by games and sport' の中で the English 青年.

The 以前 unseen image was taken in the 早期に 1860s and shows 11 young men dressed smartly in trousers and waistcoats.?

残り／休憩（する）ing on their bats, they 提起する／ポーズをとる for the photographer with the 独特の Eton College 明白な behind them.?

The photograph was taken by 勝利者 A. Prout who 調印するd it in pencil afterwards. Dating from around 1862, it was taken just five years after the first ever image 描写するing the sport.?

It is to be sold by Dominic Winters Auctioneers in Cirencester, Gloucestershire, and is 推定する／予想するd to fetch at least £500.??

Auctioneer and 上級の Valuer Chris Albury said: 'This 早期に, and 以前 unknown, cricket photograph in this album probably dates from circa 1862, some five years after the earliest photograph of a cricket match.'

The first ever photo of cricket was taken by Roger Fenton in 1857, a 設立するing member of the 王室の Photographic Society and famous for his photographs of the Crimean War.

He first 逮捕（する）d the sport in during a match between the 王室の 大砲 and the Hunsdonbury Cricket Club at the Honourable 大砲 Ground in Islington, London, 25 July 1857.

Around 100 years before the image of taken the Duke of Wellington is said to have 横断するd the playing fields at Eton where he was a student.?

Touching the ground, history （人命などを）奪う，主張するs he said: 'There grows the stuff that won Waterloo.' He was later misquoted 繰り返して as having said: 'It is here that the 戦う／戦い of Waterloo was won.'?

Eton College was 設立するd in the 15th Century by King Henry VI to school 70 poor boys. The pupils were then sent to Kings College in Cambridge, 設立するd in 1441.

The school has long been associated with cricket with its 年次の fixture against Harrow dating 支援する to 1805.?

Cricket has long been part of Eton's 冒険的な curriculum. Above, members of the first XI before a match against 世帯 旅団 in 1925

Schoolboys and teachers watch a match on the Eton playing fields in the 1930s. The fields were made famous when 述べるd by Lord Wellington as the place 'there grows the stuff that won Waterloo'

Eton College was 設立するd in the 15th Century by King Henry VI to school 70 poor boys. The pupils were then sent to Kings College in Cambridge, 設立するd in 1441

HOW 'MANLY CHARACTERISTICS' WERE DEVELOPED BY SPORTS AND HELPED PRODUCE LEADERS IN 19TH CENTURY

English poet Sir Henry John Newbolt (pictured) perhaps summed up the spirit of the 19th Century best, with his famous work known as 'Vita? Lampada'

In the 19th century, character building through sports was said to be 決定的な in morally equipping young men to 達成する greatness later in life.

Many held the 見解（をとる） that 'manly 特徴' were developed by gaming and sports, and that those who 繁栄するd on the field would go on to carve successful careers as 兵士s or engineers.

English poet Sir Henry John Newbolt perhaps summed up the spirit of the age best, with his famous work known as 'Vita? Lampada'.

The poem, written in 1892, 言及するs to how a schoolboy, a 未来 兵士, learns selfless かかわり合い to 義務 in cricket matches in the famous の近くに at Clifton College.

Vita? Lampada, which means 'the たいまつ of life', also makes 言及／関連 to the 戦う／戦い of Abu Klea in Sudan in January 1885.

The poem, in 十分な:?

There's a breathless hush in the の近くに to-night―

Ten to make and the match to 勝利，勝つ―

A bumping pitch and a blinding light,

An hour to play and the last man in.

And it's not for the sake of a 略章d coat,

Or the selfish hope of a season's fame,

But his captain's 手渡す on his shoulder smote

'Play up! play up! and play the game!'

The sand of the 砂漠 is sodden red,―

Red with the 難破させる of a square that broke;―

The Gatling's jammed and the 陸軍大佐 dead,

And the 連隊 blind with dust and smoke.

The river of death has brimmed his banks,

And England's far, and Honour a 指名する,

But the 発言する／表明する of a schoolboy 決起大会／結集させるs the 階級s:

'Play up! play up! and play the game!'

This is the word that year by year,

While in her place the school is 始める，決める,

Every one of her sons must hear,

And 非，不，無 that hears it dare forget.

This they all with a joyful mind

耐える through life like a たいまつ in 炎上,

And 落ちるing fling to the host behind―

'Play up! play up! and play the game!'