How it all began
It was Sam Sylvester, a teacher at Hawkwood School , who started the trouble . Just along the road from Hawkwood there was another school called Greycoats. Parents paid a lot of money to send their children to Greycoats, and the children there were clean and tidy, wore expensive clothes, and did well in examinations.
At Hawkwood the parents did not pay money and the children were much better at fighting than at passing examinations. They were happy about that. Passing examinations meant hard work, and who wanted to study every evening?