Shafer was eventually sent to school at Rugby, where the pranks continued.
Gradually, over several years, the game approached that then being played at Rugby.
His education was at Rugby, and after reading law he began a career as a solicitor.
Moffat excelled at Rugby and made it to the school's first team.
The man with the white face entered the carriage at Rugby.
He made his 1945 stage debut in repertory at Rugby.
However, aged 43, he had already decided on the post of coach at Rugby, which he held right through to 1926.
It was no light act of courage in those days for a little fellow to say his prayers publicly, even at Rugby.
"I was miserable at Rugby," he told me a couple of days later when we sat and talked again at his home.
After the war, he returned to his teaching career at Rugby and became a housemaster there in 1923.