What sport was developed in the mid 19th century at Harrow School?
Harrow School by three working class boys was taken outside Lord's Cricket Ground. The photograph was placed on the front cover of the "News Chronicle" (now absorbed into the "Daily Mail") the next morning under the tagline "Every picture tells a story". The picture was soon reproduced in other national publications and became, and remains, one of the most popular symbols of the class divide in the United Kingdom. Harrow has been instrumental in the development of a number of sports. The sport squash (originally called 'Squasher') was invented in Harrow out of the older game rackets around 1830 before the game
Harrow School spread to other schools, eventually becoming an international sport. An annual cricket match has taken place between Harrow and Eton College at Lord's Cricket Ground since 1805. It is considered to be the longest-running cricket fixture in the world and is the oldest fixture at Lord's (see: Eton v Harrow). Eton won the match in 2013, and Harrow in 2014 and 2015. Harrow has its own unique style of football called Harrow Football, which was pivotal in the formation of association football as it is known today. Harrow School divides its pupils, who are all boarders, into twelve Houses, each