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• Parker’s Piece is named after Edward Parker, a cook, who held the original lease on the land and used it as a pasture?

Who was John Charles Thring?

In 1862, a the teacher at Uppingham School, in Rutland, England, named John Charles Thring, who was part of the group that had established the Cambridge Rules 1848, published an alternate set of soccer rules titled “The Simplest Game.” Known as Uppingham Rules, they emphasized a non-violent approach to the game that was popular with other schools.

Who was Ebenezer Cobb Morley?

In 1863, Ebenezer Cobb Morley, the founder and captain of Barnes Football Club, wrote a letter to Bell’s Life newspaper proposing a governing body for football. This letter resulted in a meeting of 12 soccer clubs taking place at the Freeman’s Tavern in London in October 1863. England’s Football Association was established at this meeting, with the aim of establishing a single unifying code for football. Ebenezer Cobb Morley was elected as the secretary of the Football Association and was later president.