What was the first movie depicting a bat wielding educational professional?

The tough education professional who wields a baseball bat to bring order to a troubled school has become something of a trope. I'm wondering what the first appearance was.

Morgan Freeman depicted the archetype in Lean on Me (1989), but Jim Belushi depicted the archetype in The Principal (1987), co-starring with Lou Gosset, Jr. and Rae Dawn Chong:

There was an 1982 exploitation film The Class of 1984 that may have set the precedent for the two subsequent films, but I can't recall if the teacher in that film used a baseball bat specifically (this movie poster suggests a lead pipe and blowtorch, but many melee weapons were employed in the movie, and the iconic nature of the baseball bat wielding educational professional had not yet been established...)

• Was Belushi's the first depiction of this archetype, or is there an earlier example?

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Question amended to "bat wielding" to allow for cricket bats.