"The Doon School Old Boys' Society The Doon School Old Boys' Society (often abbreviated to DSOBS) is the alumni society of The Doon School, an all-boys independent boarding school in Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India. The Doon School was founded in 1935 by Satish Ranjan Das, a Kolkata lawyer. The first president of the society was the Englishman Arthur Foot, a former master at Eton College, who became the first Headmaster at Doon. The society is ranked as one of the most influential old-boy networks in the world with its alumni including prominent diplomats, bureaucrats, top officers of the defence forces, a"
"School tie The school tie and the old school tie are a style of necktie which are British institutions particularly associated with public schools. A school tie indicates membership of a particular school, and sometimes of a particular house in that school. An old school tie is a necktie that, on leaving school, former pupils are often entitled to wear, in their school or old-boy club colours. According to protocol, it may only be worn by former pupils. This symbol can be a discreet passport to the old boy network, and such ties can be an indication of one's social"
"old boys' network lives on: privately educated students earn more than those with identical qualifications educated by the state"". School tie The school tie and the old school tie are a style of necktie which are British institutions particularly associated with public schools. A school tie indicates membership of a particular school, and sometimes of a particular house in that school. An old school tie is a necktie that, on leaving school, former pupils are often entitled to wear, in their school or old-boy club colours. According to protocol, it may only be worn by former pupils. This symbol can"
"English–Latin football rivalry Since 1887, two of the oldest public schools in the United States, the Boston Latin School and English High School of Boston, have faced off in an annual football rivalry which now takes place on Thanksgiving day at Harvard Stadium. The rivalry is the oldest continuous high school football rivalry in the U.S, and fifth longest all time behind Phillips Academy versus Phillips Exeter Academy, Wellesley, Massachusetts versus Needham, Massachusetts, New London, Connecticut versus Norwich Free Academy in Norwich, Connecticut, and Lawrenceville School vs. The Hill School. The series began with both teams' formation in 1887. Prior"
"former pupils of Douai include: Former pupils of St Mary's College, Woolhampton include: Fictional characters include: The Douai Society tie is black with thin multiple stripes of yellow, red, yellow, navy, yellow. Association football was introduced to the ""old"" school in the late 1880s. Before this, football was played to particular rules which allowed the use of hands and forbade any kicking backwards. Cricket had been played for many years in the old quad, but in 1885 a new pitch was laid at Douai's country house in Planques. External fixtures, which were unknown at old Douai, were soon organized after"
"most common of which is the royal blue tie with an embroidered school coat of arms (fig. 1). Sixth Form Prefects may wear a navy blue tie with alternating blue and gold stripes (fig. 2), and those who are in the first XI may wear the school sports tie, a navy blue tie with gold school coats of arms criss-crossing it (fig. 3). The Old Blues tie, a navy blue tie with alternating squirrels (the school's crest) and blue stripes, is worn by those pupils whose father was once a student at the school (and therefore members of the Old"
"such as Oxford and Cambridge, and have also spread to some of Britain's former imperial possessions, including Canada and the United States. The 'old school tie' is used by the British press as a metaphor for old-boy social networks, nepotism, and the relatively disproportionate success of former pupils of major public schools, especially in politics and business. For example, after the 2010 General Election, ""The Times"" noted that 6% of the parliamentary Tory Party were Old Etonians, under the headline ""Tories’ old school tie still rules"". Five years later, in 2015, the ""New Statesman"" observed that, ""The power of the"
"within the college buildings and appear on the official College tie. It probably represents Edward, the Black Prince, Prince of Wales, who first adopted the device, the senior grandson of King Edward II, although it may represent King Charles I, who was Prince of Wales when the building of the First quad began in the 17th century. The College colours are ""two white stripes on navy"", used on the college scarf, sports clothing, oar blades etc. The long-time informal emblem of the Tortoise Club (1st Summer VIII and 1st Torpid crews), was formalized in a grant to the College by"
"standing. Conversely, wearing a tie to which you have no right is a serious social gaffe. Although originally an institution of male-only schools, some schools of mixed or female-only membership do present their female leavers with a tie or other equivalent. Alternative clothing such as socks, scarfs, pyjamas and even underwear may also be available in the old-boy/old-girl colours. Exclusive ties are not limited to British public schools: they are also a practice of some private schools in Australia, many private and some of the more prestigious state schools in New Zealand, many clubs, military regiments and colleges of universities"
"Academy and New London High School. The first meeting between Norwich Free Academy and New London High School occurred on May 12, 1875. Wellesley High School and Needham High School began playing each other in 1882 in what is now the oldest football rivalry in the United States between public schools. In 1887, Boston Latin School and English High School began playing each other in what is now the oldest continuous football rivalry in the United States. Hyde Park Career Academy and Englewood Technical Prep Academy began playing each other for the Little Brown Shield in 1889. The ""Bell Game"""
"recent athlete, who won an Athletics Scholarship to train and study at Harvard. There are six houses in the Senior School, each named after a previous headmaster or notable old boy. Boys wear a standard red and blue school tie until they achieve 6 house points, at which point they are awarded the right to wear a house tie of navy blue with thin stripes of the following colours: House points are awarded for participation in inter-house competitions throughout the year. Other ties include (in order of increasing seniority) the House Prefect's tie (bold stripes of dark blue and a"
"tie is blue with red stripes, with eight (originally six) additional house ties and various ties for membership of teams or achievements, and a separate, dark navy striped tie for sixth formers. Head Boys and Deputy Head Boys receive a colour-inverted version of the Sixth Form tie, which is maroon and striped. There were originally six houses, named after famous British explorers. Churchill and Montgomery's names were added after the Second World War to two houses. In 2016 the school added two new houses; Darwin-Wilberforce and Turing-Nightingale, the names of which were nominated by pupils and were chosen through a"
"oldest continuous high school football rivalry with the William Penn Charter School. The academy recently completed the first two phases of a campus rebuilding plan. The Union School was founded on the evening of December 6, 1759, at the Green Tree Tavern on Germantown Avenue. The school was founded by prominent members of the Germantown community who wished to provide a country school for their children. As some of the founders and residents of Germantown were of German descent, it was decided that the school be opened with both English and German speaking departments. The founders chose David James Dove"
"Battle for the Ol' School Bell The Battle for the Ol' School Bell was an old rivalry between the Troy State Trojans (now the Troy Trojans) and the Jacksonville State Gamecocks when the two schools started playing together in Division II. The series continued as the Trojans moved to the FCS, with the Gamecocks moving to the FCS soon after. The series came to a halt when Troy moved to what is now the FBS. However, with rumors of Jax State considering a possible move to the FBS, the rivalry may be renewed again. The idea for a school bell"
"and produced by the College of Arms, was presented to the library. Chesshyre was educated at St Michael's Preparatory School, Otford (contemporary with John Hurt and a pupil of Roy Martin Haines) and The King's School, Canterbury (The Grange House 1954–59). He maintains a close relationship with The King's School. In 2010 the school's Legacy Club (a club for Old King's Scholars pledging a proportion of their estate to the school) launched a tie whose design was contributed to by Chesshyre. The tie is blue scattered with silver mitres and golden crowns, reflecting the dual influence of Church and State"
"trophy stemmed from the two schools' common origins as teachers' colleges. The two teams first met in 1924 in Troy, Alabama. The last game was played in 2001. Jacksonville State leads the series 32–29–2. Troy has won the last seven games of the series, while also going 12–3 since 1983 against the Gamecocks. Battle for the Ol' School Bell The Battle for the Ol' School Bell was an old rivalry between the Troy State Trojans (now the Troy Trojans) and the Jacksonville State Gamecocks when the two schools started playing together in Division II. The series continued as the Trojans"
"the fair catch kick rule has survived through to modern American game). Princeton won that game by a score of 8–0. Columbia joined the series in 1870, and by 1872 several schools were fielding intercollegiate teams, including Yale and Stevens Institute of Technology. Columbia University was the third school to field a team. The Lions traveled from New York City to New Brunswick on November 12, 1870 and were defeated by Rutgers 6 to 3. The game suffered from disorganization and the players kicked and battled each other as much as the ball. Later in 1870, Princeton and Rutgers played"
"the original competition in 1922, with Rongotai College first competing in 1928 and St Patrick's College, Silverstream taking part in the school's first year of existence, 1931. Over the years there have been a number of schools that have taken part in the competition, including Hutt Valley High School, Scots College and Wairarapa High School (which shared the Shield in 1925 with Wellington College, and won outright in 1927). In the early 1980s it was decided that only the four traditional boys' schools would be able to compete. In 2009, Scots College's attempt to rejoin the McEvedy Shield was unsuccessful."
"a long-standing custom for girls and boys in the lower sixth to dress in 18th-century school uniforms and greet visitors to the church, in reference to the historic origins of the school. The badges of both the surviving schools founded by Thomas Tenison are based on his personal coat of arms, which consist of the arms of the see of Canterbury impaled with the Tenison family arms. The former, placed on the dexter side of honour, are blazoned as: ""Azure, an archiepiscopal cross in pale or surmounted by a pall proper charged with four crosses patee fitchee sable"". The arms"
"case of a tie, an ""I–P"" link was added. The inaugural Old Oaken Bucket Game ended in a 0–0 deadlock on November 21, 1925, in Bloomington resulting in the very first and most visible link, an ""I–P"" link, being added to the handle of the bucket. When Indiana and Purdue moved to separate divisions for the 2014 season—Indiana to the East and Purdue to the West—the Old Oaken Bucket was the only inter-divisional rivalry protected under the new alignment. The name of the trophy refers to a sentimental poem written in 1817 by a successful printer and publisher, Samuel Woodworth"
"tie or an honours tie. Colours ties are awarded to students who perform in an extra-curriculum activity such as making a firsts team. An honours ties are rare and are only awarded when a student performs very well and gives some voluntary service to the sport. The academic equal to an honours tie is an academic tie which is awarded to students who earn five academic excellence awards, with at least two being in Year 11 or 12. These three ties may only be worn on a Friday. Any leaver of Scotch College is known as an ""Old Scotch Collegian""."
"church in the morning, then the main event in the afternoon started with a procession of staff in Academic robes and hoods. In December there was a school carol service in the University Church. The boy's blazers were chocolate brown, as were the caps. In later years Sixth formers wore blue blazers. The striped tie was brown with red and blue diagonal piping. On entry to the school, every boy became a member of one of the four school houses: Lawrence, Jolliffe, Kerry or Salter. The former pupils of the City of Oxford High School now have their own Old"
"observed as the House Day, when students are supposed to wear their shirts belonging to their respective houses with white pants and without tie. Saturday as is considered as the PT day, is when the students are to wear white shirts and white pants with the tie and school belt. Central Academy (Ranchi) Central Academy is an elementary/secondary school in Ranchi, Jharkhand. The school has often been cited as the oldest English Medium School in the city of Ranchi, dating its inception to 1965. The school is affiliated to the Central Board of Secondary Education, New Delhi, and follows the"
"in 1805, saying, ""I cannot write a long letter as I am very tired after having played at football all this afternoon."" The first ever interscholastic football game between high schools was in 1875, when Phillips Academy played against Adams Academy. One of the oldest schoolboy rivalries in American football is the Andover/Exeter competition, started in 1878. That year, the first Andover/Exeter baseball game took place, and ""The Phillipian"" returned from hiatus, named its first Board and began publishing regularly. Similar boarding school traditions include the Choate-Deerfield rivalry and Hotchkiss-Taft rivalry. Today, Phillips Academy is an athletic powerhouse among New"
"tie: five of the same design with a different coloured stripe, and one ""Year 11 tie"" which was mandatory for Year 11 (final year) students. The colours are rotated each year so that pupils need not buy more than one tie. In 2011–12: Kingstone School presented performances of ""Smike"", ""We Will Rock You"", ""Little Shop of Horrors"", ""High School Musical"" and ""Oliver!"". Kingstone School was home to the Kingstone Concert Band (formerly Kingstone School Concert Band), which played at Blackpool Opera House, Disneyland Paris, Efteling theme park in the Netherlands, and which in April 2006 toured Barcelona promoting Concert bands"
"The bell tradition ceased with the University of Nebraska's entrance to the Big Ten Conference, making the 106th class of the Innocents Society the last to trade (and keep) the oldest trophy in collegiate football. In 2011, 107th class of the Innocents Society began a new trophy exchange with the University of Iowa. During the '40s and '50s, the Innocents coordinated freshmen beanie sales and would wear identical jackets one day each week. Like the Missouri bell exchange, at this time an exchange with the University of Colorado was coordinated. The head of a buffalo was mounted for a mere"
"by playing each other. This tradition has been interrupted only occasionally (World War I, 9/11 (game with ND moved to 12/1), late season games @ Hawaii), but for the most part, Indiana and Purdue have ended the season by playing each other. Purdue leads the all-time series 73–41–6. In 1925 the teams played for the Old Oaken Bucket for the first time. While the presentation of the trophy dates 86 years, the bucket itself is more than 100 years old. The winner of the bucket gets a ""P"" or ""I"" link added to the chain of the bucket with the"
"sibling flagship university state schools from the SEC — with which they also have intense rivalries: Georgia Tech's Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate rivalry with the Georgia Bulldogs, and Clemson's Palmetto Bowl game against the South Carolina Gamecocks. Through 2016, the teams have played 81 times, with Tech leading the series 50–31–2, with 60 games played in Atlanta, and only 19 games played in Clemson's Memorial Stadium. The teams first met in 1898, when Clemson's third-year program defeated Georgia Tech 23–0 to finish with a 3–1 record. The following year, the Tigers beat Tech again, 41–5. In 1904, Georgia Tech lured away"
"undoubtedly one of the oldest secondary school soccer trophies in the country. In 1968 Middlesex joined the group and in 1971 Roxbury Latin competed before joining permanently in 1974. 1972 saw Tabor leave the league and Groton join. That brought the league to ten schools where it remained until 1984. The original Private School League had expanded during this time and had grown into the 16 school Independent School League. In order to include the six ISL schools not in Gummere Cup play at the time (Lawrence, Rivers, St. George's, St. Paul's, St. Sebastian's, and Thayer) the Athletic Directors created"
"which was incorporated into Longview in the 1870s. Being founded in 1847, it is the 57th oldest public high school in America. Growth was slow but stable, with agriculture being the primary source of income through the turn of the century. The oil boom in 1931 brought thousands of people to East Texas and caused rapid growth for Pine Tree Schools. Alma Mater Pirates fight for old Pine Tree High<br> For our Alma Mater dear <br> Pirates fight for Old Pine Tree High, <br> For Victory is near. <br> <br> To Pine Tree we’ll all be loyal <br> ‘Til the"
"""The common seal of the independent school of the town of Richmond"". School uniform consists of black trousers or a skirt, a white shirt a school tie and a navy blue school jumper or black blazer with the school seal embroidered in colour. The legend on the uniform's seal is not the original Latin, but instead is simply 'Richmond School Yorkshire'. The previous school tie was of navy blue, gold and burgundy School colours. Until 1971 when the schools merged the tie incorporated a coloured stripe to signify the 'house' of the pupil. Green for Tate, yellow for Zetland, red"
"Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate The Clean, Old-Fashioned Hate is an American college football rivalry between the Georgia Bulldogs and the Georgia Tech Yellow Jackets. The two Southern universities are located in the U.S. state of Georgia and are separated by . They have been heated rivals since 1893. The sports rivalry between the two institutions has traditionally focused on football, a sport in which both programs have historically been successful, with an annual game often held on Thanksgiving weekend. However, they compete in a variety of other intercollegiate sports, as well as competing for government and private funding, potential students, and"
"no need as the fashion until then was very conservative. The first uniform introduced was a three piece charcoal grey suit with a green tie and white shirt. The green tie reflected the school colours (green and white). It was seen at the time that only grammar schools or preparatory schools had uniforms with striped ties and blazers embroidered with the school shield. In the 1970s the uniform was changed to a black three piece suit for Sunday and a green tweed jacket with grey trousers for mid-week. At this stage the school tie was changed to red, as it"