Sport
Cricket and hockey were both played at Douai from 1905, but from 1918-19 rugby union replaced soccer as the main winter sport. In 1920, the Trinidadian Louis Wharton became Douai's first Oxford University cricketer, and went on to play for Somerset. An indoor swimming pool was built in 1937. A group of spectators (at Twickenham) associated with the school is credited with introducing the song Swing Low, Sweet Chariot as an English rugby union anthem.
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“What sport shall we devise here in this garden
To drive away the heavy thought of care?”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
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