John Charles Thring
Footballer, codifier, advocate, schoolmaster and priest
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12675957 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Malcolm Tozer (0000-0001-7531-1207, University of Buckingham, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 24 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 105-122 |
| Publication date | 2022-08-18 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Soccer and Society (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1466-0970 • E-ISSN: 1743-9590 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14660970.2022.2113133 |
| OpenAlex | W4292372469 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 3 |
N. L. Jackson, in his celebrated early history of the game, Association Football (1899), judged that John Charles Thring had laid the ‘the groundwork on which the Association code was built’. Thring’s rules for The Simplest Game, first published in 1862, and his call for a ‘football parliament’, in 1863, are two examples. Thring’s enthusiasm for the game spanned more than thirty years from the 1830s: playing at Winchester College and Shrewsbury School; playing, organizing and codifying at St John’s College, Cambridge; teaching and codifying at Uppingham School; playing in Wiltshire; and advocating or disputing national initiatives through correspondence to newspapers. Thring, the younger brother of Uppingham School’s famous headmaster, Edward, is remembered in many accounts of the early history of football but they are not always accurate. This essay aims to set the record straight
Brother · Enthusiasm · Football · Media studies · Newspaper · Parliament · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Theology · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts · Sports, Gender, and Society
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |