Talk:Charles Wreford-Brown

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I was recently told that Charles Wreford Brown was the one who invented the word soccer for football. If there is any confirmation this would be a nice thing to add I think.

[edit] Soccer with a sock ball

When I was a kid in primary school, proper footballs were not allowed because they were too big and hard and either caused injury or broke windows (according to the headmaster, anyway). We played Soccer with a 'ball' made of long school socks bundled together 'over and over' to form a ball. I always assumed that this was the root of 'soccer'. Am I misguided? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 80.85.216.48 (talk • contribs).

Definitely. Jooler 20:32, 5 June 2006 (UTC)