Charles Wreford-Brown
Football, Cricket Player
1866 – 1951
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Who was Charles Wreford-Brown?
Charles Wreford-Brown captained the England national football team and was a county cricketer during the Victorian age, and later acted as a sports legislator during the 20th century. Wreford-Brown is usually credited with inventing the term soccer as an abbreviation for association football. However, this is believed to be apocryphal.
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- Born
- Oct 9, 1866
Clifton, Bristol - Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Education
- Oriel College
- Charterhouse School
- Lived in
- Bristol
- Died
- Nov 26, 1951
Bayswater
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on July 23, 2013
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