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| The name of the club was decided by several OR cricketers who went to chapel on the Sunday of the 1921 O.R. Cricket Match. | |||||||||||||||||
| One of the hymns sung at the service was … | |||||||||||||||||
| Hymn 676 | Words: John Bunyan | Music: Monk's Gate - English Traditional | |||||||||||||||
| Ancient & Modern | from the Pilgrim's Progress | Melody adapted by Ralph Vaughan Williams | |||||||||||||||
| Who would true valour see, | Hobgoblin nor foul fiend | ||||||||||||||||
| Let him come hither; | Can daunt his spirit; | ||||||||||||||||
| One here will constant be, | He knows he at the end | ||||||||||||||||
| Come wind, come weather; | Shall life inherit. | ||||||||||||||||
| There's no discouragement | Then fancies fly away, | ||||||||||||||||
| Shall make him once relent | He'll fear not what men say; | ||||||||||||||||
| His first avowed intent | He'll labour night and day | ||||||||||||||||
| To be a pilgrim. | To be a pilgrim. | ||||||||||||||||
| Who so beset him round | In this poem Bunyan is praising the | ||||||||||||||||
| With dismal stories | constancy of Mr Valiant-for-Truth. | ||||||||||||||||
| Do but themselves confound; | |||||||||||||||||
| His strength the more is. | |||||||||||||||||
| Extract from Bernard Thomas's book "Repton Cricket 1557 - 1957" | No lion can him fright; | ||||||||||||||||
| (courtesy of Paul Stevens, School Archivist) | He'll with a giant fight; | ||||||||||||||||
| But he will have a right | |||||||||||||||||
| To be a pilgrim. | |||||||||||||||||
| Guy Pedder (O'1906) claimed with some truth that it was he, who as the hymn was being sung, had the brain wave of his life… | |||||||||||||||||
| … and the new name of the Old Reptonian Cricket Club came into being. | |||||||||||||||||
| The first Men's Pilgrims' match was played against Repton School on 23rd/24th June 1922 | See MEN's SCORECARD | ||||||||||||||||
| The first Women's Pilgrims' match was played against Repton School Girls' 1st XI on 1st July 2023 | See WOMEN's SCORECARD |