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English public school lingo

Reading "My Name Is Michael Sibley" by John Bingham (1952), I ran across some terms I've seen before but never really understood.

In what sport would one be a member of the Fifteen? Can't be soccer, that's eleven. I thought it might be cricket, but that's apparently eleven as well.
Also, what is the Sixth Form? Some sort of honors class?

Do all public schools have Houses and a College, or just Eton? The school in the book is situated on the banks of the Avon is that meant to refer to some actual school, or is it fictional?
  
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