 He supported amateurism in school sport strongly because, as he commented in an article on professional coaches in 1914, "the professional very often misses the spirit of sport in his desire to gain".Wilmot strongly held loathing of professional sport carried over to his love of football.In 1915, then the vice-president of the Metropolitan Amateur Football Association, he used his position as "The Argus" football scribe, "Old Boy", to launch an attack on the mercenary nature of professional football, arguing that professional football did not improve the calibre of man and did nothing to improve the sport and, as such, was of no value to the community.