defeat to Preston North End at Leyton, in front of 5,000 spectators. Preston North End won the first-ever Football League championship two years later. Other F.A.Cup games were played against future Football League clubs Middlesbrough, Grimsby Town and Watford Rovers (later to become Watford F.C.). Old Foresters Percy Fairclough and Fred Pelly played for England. Ralph Courtenay Guy In 1894 Ralph Guy took over from his brother as headmaster, continuing the Guy legacy and starting 41 years at the helm. Ralph Guy had been a pupil at Forest himself. He was a first-class sportsman and he continued the strong sporting culture at the school; one of the first things he did was set up the annual "Sylvestrians" Cricket Week. Edward L. Atkinson was taught at Forest in the 1890s, who went on to be the surgeon on Scott's last, fatal Antarctic Expedition, but had the good fortune to survive himself. The school's pupil numbers and facilities continued to grow: a new Sanatorium in 1902, an extended Junior School, a new Grub Shop and in 1906 the School's Science Laboratory was built at the south end of College Place on the site of the modern Theatre. The Great War of 1914-1918 affected Forest greatly as it did for the nation as a whole. There were many reports of the suffering and the heroism which Old Foresters endured during the conflict, and Lieutenant Geary's Victoria Cross and a number of Military Crosses bear testimony to the Old Foresters in battle. The School Magazine reported first-hand accounts of a Zeppelin raid taking place over London, and another occasion of the destruction of an airship by fire. 98 Old Foresters were killed in the Great War, their names are recorded on the south wall of the Chapel. The 1920s saw the formation of the House System: Doctor's after Dr. F. B. Guy, Poole's after Prebendary F. J. Poole, and Johnians after John Gilderdale. Soon after the school celebrated its centenary, Ralph Courtenay Guy sold the school in 1935, and the Guy dynasty of almost 80 years was ended. Gerald Miller and post-war growth In 1936 Gerald Miller became Forest's seventh Headmaster after buying the school from R.C. Guy. Three years later the onset of the Second World War brought significant disruption to Forest, which still operated throughout the war. The most significant event was in August 1944 when a flying-bomb scored a direct hit