Brendan Gallagher continues his series looking at rugby’s great schools

EVERY School faces their own challenges and at Hampton, for the First XV, it is keeping pace with a rowing squad that boasts an almost world wide reputation in excellence and a football side that won the England Schools FA Cup last year. The fight for bragging rights is fierce.
Students at Hampton do whatever sports they want – there is no compulsion, no mandatory sport of the term – so to attract and then keep enough of the available athletic talent to become one of the best and most consistent ...