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|Text=<p>Ford summarizes a bad day for Etonians:  "Eton were beaten by Westminster School on Hounslow Heath and on return to college were flogged by the headmaster; it would seem that this was for playing rather than for losing."  See John Ford, <u>Cricket: A Social History 1700-1835</u> [David and Charles, 1972], page 20.  Ford does not give a citation for this account.</p>
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Ford summarizes a bad day for Etonians: "Eton were beaten by Westminster School on Hounslow Heath and on return to college were flogged by the headmaster; it would seem that this was for playing rather than for losing." See John Ford, Cricket: A Social History 1700-1835 [David and Charles, 1972], page 20. Ford does not give a citation for this account.

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