in Forest's first season on 24 February 1858, when Forest beat Chigwell School 5-4 on The Common. Another early game was on Saturday 16 November 1861, when Forest School, (playing as "Walthamstow"), lost to a Westminster School side (playing as "Bounding Bricks") by three goals to nil. A return match was played four weeks later, and in 1862 the school played against Old Westminsters (playing as Elizabethan Club). By 1863, Forest football had a major influence on the development of the game, and it was involved in the formation of the Football Association and also the leading club at the time, The Forest Club. Forest School joined the F.A. for its fifth meeting, on 1 December 1863, when John Bouch (brother of a pupil) and David John Morgan (recent Old Forester) represented the school on a 15-man committee. It was at this fifth F.A. meeting that the important amendment was made to the rules that running with the ball and hacking would be removed, and Forest, an opponent of such "Rugby rules", would have been influential in voting for this change. Forest School is the second oldest continuous member of the F.A., behind only the Civil Service. Walter Cutbill, an Old Forester, served as an early member of the F.A. Committee and Henry Tubb, captain of Forest in 1867, helped the F.A. committee evolve its rules in that year. Although a member of the F.A. from almost the very beginning, the school's own rules, "The Forest Rules", were still played up until 1867, with 15 players a side. The Wanderers described the Forest Rules as "a happy mixture of Rugby, Harrow and Charterhouse rules". It was essentially a dribbling game, and "shinning, hacking and tripping" was not allowed. From the 1867-68 season Forest decided to play all its home matches under the rules of the Football Association, although away games could still be played under the local rules of the host club. 15 players per side could still be played up until 1869. Forest is the only school to have played in the F.A. Cup, which it did for four seasons 1875-1879. The Old Foresters F.C., founded in 1876, entered the F.A.Cup in 12 seasons (1877-1889), and reached the quarter-finals in 1882, losing 0-1 to Great Marlow at Slough in a replay after a 0-0 draw in the first meeting at The Oval. The 1887 campaign ended after a 0-3