refers to the organised football teams which represent Forest School, Walthamstow.

Forest had an important role in the development and creation of association football, and the Common at the front of the school may well be regarded as a "cradle of the game".

Football began at Forest in 1857 when Frederick Guy took over as headmaster; it was played on The Common, at the front of the school.

Tradition records some great battles between Charles W. Alcock and F.J. Poole, in which the object was to barge the other player over the iron railings!

[3] 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.

meeting that the important amendment was made to the rules that running with the ball and hacking would be removed, and Forest, with only limited running with the ball in their rules, are likely to have been influential in voting for this change.