Organisation
The Wall Game is organized entirely by boys, particularly by the Keepers of College Wall, Oppidan Wall and Mixed Wall. Famous past players of the Wall game include Boris Johnson, who was Keeper of the College Wall, George Orwell and Harold Macmillan. The First World War Flying Ace Arthur Rhys Davids also played, representing College with Ralph Dominic Gamble in 1915. Members of the College Wall also annually commemorate the great Wall Game Player James Kenneth Stephen, making a toast at each year's Christmas Soc Supper with the words in piam memoriam, J.K.S (in pious memory, J.K.S). Despite its renown outside the school, only a very small number of the 250 or so boys in each year ever take part in the sport, unlike the lesser-known but much more widely played Eton Field Game.
The Eton Wall Game has been played twice by all-female teams.
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