How were values withdrawn from games like cricket and rugby in British schools?

(i) Eton was one of the English boarding schools which trained English boys for a career in military the civil services and the church.
(ii) Thomas Arnold, headmaster of a Rugby School and founder of the modern public school system saw sports like cricket and rugby as an organised way of teaching discipline to English boys’
(iii) These games taught them the codes of honour and the leadership qualities that helped them build and run the British Empire’