Harrow has its own unique style of football called Harrow Football. The purpose of the game is to score a ' base ', which is achieved by kicking the ball between a pair of vertical posts, located at each end of the ground, similar to rugby posts but without a cross-bar.

Wealdstone Football Club is an English semi-professional football club which was formed in Wealdstone, in the London Borough of Harrow, but is currently based a few miles away in Ruislip, in the London Borough of Hillingdon.

Rendalls boys after a muddy Harrow football game

Harrow football is ancestral to association football and played exclusively at Harrow School, both between teams of boys currently at the school and between boys at the school and old boys.

The Laws of Harrow football are often framed in broad terms, which allows flexibility in their application depending on the nature of the game.

A standard Harrow football match consists of two periods ( known as halves ) of 40 minutes each.

Each playing period in Harrow football commences with a kick-off, which is a set kick from the centre by one team.

Harrow football is played between teams consisting of boys from each Harrow School boarding house between January and April each year.

Harrow football is commonly known as footer within the bounds of Harrow School.

A number of Harrow Songs celebrate Harrow football, possibly more than the songs celebrating any other aspect of school life.

Due to the connection Wanderers had with Harrow School, the school's football team played Wanderers frequently – 33 games between the two were recorded between 1865 and 1883.

He first played football while at Cheam School and was captain of the school team in 1859, aged 12, for a match against Harrow School.

Harrow Borough Football Club is a semi-professional English association football club based in the London Borough of Harrow.

The 2009 – 10 season saw the introduction of the Harrow Borough youth team, playing their football in the Isthmian Youth League West Division.

Arnold Hills was also a keen sportsman who was the English mile and three mile champion, and in his youth had played football and cricket ( he was Captain of the 1st XI ) for his school team Harrow.

* February – Harrow School is founded, with a royal charter from Queen Elizabeth I of England.

It is the oldest of the original nine English public schools defined by the Public Schools Act 1868 and is one of four remaining full boarding independent schools, meaning all pupils are boarders, in the United Kingdom ( the others are Eton College, Harrow School and Radley College ).

Following the public school tradition, Eton is a full boarding school, which means all pupils live at the school, and is one of four remaining single-sex boys ' public schools ( the others being Winchester College, Harrow School and Radley College ) to continue this practice.

The annual cricket match against Harrow at Lord's Cricket Ground is the oldest fixture of the cricketing calendar, having been played there since 1805.

The town has Saxon roots, and likely owes its location to the existence of a gap in the North Downs where the River Wey is forded by the Harrow Way.

From Kentish charters it is known that Æthelbald was in control of London, and from Æthelbald's time on, the transition to Mercian control appears to be complete ; an early charter of Offa's, granting land near Harrow, does not even include the king of Essex on the witness list.

Catford's oldest pub is the Black Horse and Harrow ( now called the Goose on the Green ) and Karl Marx is reputed to have been an occasional patron.

Hatch End is a suburban area of North West London, situated within the London Borough of Harrow.

Hatch End is home to Harrow Arts Centre, a complex which centres around the 404 seat Elliott Hall and a 120 seat studio theatre.

Harrow town centre is located to the southeast of Hatch End and is a regional centre for higher order goods, with two shopping malls and a 9-screen cinema, along with numerous restaurants, places of entertainment and bookshops.

Roughly speaking, the area west of Chamberlayne Road, north of Harrow Road and south of Kensal Rise railway station is considered Kensal Green while that to the east of Chamberlayne Road and north of the station is considered Kensal Rise.

A third area south of Harrow Road, around the area of Kensal Road is commonly referred to as Kensal Town.

Since Harrow Road is generally considered to be the southern boundary of Kensal Green and Brent, most residents class Kensal Road and its environs as part of Westbourne Park.

Kenton is an area in northwest London, England, partly in the London Borough of Harrow and partly in the London Borough of Brent.

That part of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea roughly encompassed by the electoral wards of Saint Charles, Golborne, Notting Barns, Colville, Norland, and Pembridge, which is bounded on the north by Harrow Road and on the south by Notting Hill Gate and Holland Park Avenue, includes all areas known as Notting Hill, including Notting Barns, the centre of the Notting Hill race riot.

Pinner is a suburb in the London Borough of Harrow in Northwest London, England, 12. 2 miles north west of Charing Cross.

Stanmore is a suburban area of the London Borough of Harrow, in northwest London.

Stanmore is home to Stanmore College ( a government further education establishment ) and a local library run by the London Borough of Harrow.

It is east of Harrow Mannor Way ( A2041 ) and south of the A2016.

* Kenton ( note: part of Kenton is in Harrow )

By September Handley Page Harrow heavy bombers replaced the Virginias and the squadron became a long range bomber unit with six aircraft in each flight and four in reserve, with the squadron code of ' 75 ' painted on the fuselage.

But with Bill O'Connor on the fiddle, and Gran Harrow exuberantly shouting `` Glory Be '' and `` Hallelujah '' above their united chant of the lilting old ballads, they played their quaint folk games with all the fervor and abandon of a real celebration.

The first match on record between schools was when an Eton pair played at Harrow in 1885 ( F. Thomas and C. Barclay of Eton beat E. M. Butler and B. R. Warren of Harrow ).

After leaving Harrow College of Art, Dennis played in R & B bands.

He was a cricket wicket-keeper and played in the Eton Harrow match in four years, captaining Eton in 1847.

The oldest cricket fixture at Lord's ( i. e., one that continues to this day ) is the annual Eton v Harrow match, which was first played on the Old Ground in 1805, and on the present Lord's Cricket Ground in July 1818.

The oldest permanent fixture at Lord's is the annual Eton versus Harrow match which began in 1805 ( Lord Byron played in the 1805 Harrow XI ) and celebrated its bicentennial in 2005.

After the closure of Claremont Road, Hendon's home games were played at Harrow Borough's Earlsmead ground, Northwood's Chestnut Avenue, Staines Town's Wheatsheaf Road and Wembley's Vale Farm.

It is akin to the Eton Field and Wall Games and the Harrow Game in that it enjoys a large following from Wykehamists and old Wykehamists but is not played outside the community directly connected to Winchester College.

Home games were played at Harrow Park, now known of course as Harmsworth Park.

He played cricket for Harrow against Eton in the famous Fowler's match in 1910.

Harrow Football is played predominantly with the feet, but players may use any part of their body including, in certain circumstances, their hands and arms to propel the ball.

Harrow Football is usually played on a pitch resembling a rugby pitch, only muddier and uneven.

During this time the group played regular gigs at the White Hart in Willesden Green-The Nashville Rooms in West Kensington The Windsor Castle on the Harrow Road and in 1976 played a memorable gig at Alexandra Palace where Max Merritt got to the gig on the day after travelling back to New Zealand to visit his dying mother ( unfortunately she died while Max was en-route to New Zealand ).

Whilst at Harrow, his family had moved to Shrewbridge Hall, Nantwich, Cheshire, and he first played cricket for that county in 1862 and played in 20 matches between then and 1876.

Hawke made his first appearance at Lord's in July 1878 when he played in the prestigious Eton v Harrow match.