C.B Fry

1872 - 1956

Charles Burgess Fry (25 April 1872 - 7 September 1956) was an exceptional English sportsman, teacher, writer, editor and publisher, who is best remembered for his career as a cricketer, scoring 94 first-class centuries, including an unprecedented six consecutive centuries in 1901.

Fry's sporting achievements included representing England in both cricket and football, an FA Cup Final appearance for Southampton, equalling the then-world record for the long jump and playing rugby to a high level, playing for Oxford University, Blackheath and the Barbarians.

Fry claimed that even well into his seventies he could still perform his party trick. This entailed him jumping up on to a mantelpiece, first facing the mantelpiece, crouching down and leaping upwards, turning in the air and bowing to his audience with his feet firmly on the top of the mantelpiece.
After winning a scholarship, Fry was educated at Repton School and then at Wadham College, Oxford. he won his university Blue in football, cricket and athletics, but narrowly failed to win a Blue in rugby union because of an injury.
Fry was captain of the Oxford University cricket team in 1894, meaning that he was simultaneously not only captain of both the university cricket and football teams but president of the varsity athletics club as well.
Apart from his other sporting achievements stated, Fry was also a decent shot putter, hammer thrower and ice skater, representing Wadham in the inter-College races on Blenheim lake in the winter of 1894-95 and coming close to an unofficial Blue as a member of the

Charles Burgess Fry (25 April 1872 - 7 September 1956) was an exceptional English sportsman, teacher, writer, editor and publisher, who is best remembered for his career as a cricketer, scoring 94 first-class centuries, including an unprecedented six consecutive centuries in 1901.

Fry's sporting achievements included representing England in both cricket and football, an FA Cup Final appearance for Southampton, equalling the then-world record for the long jump and playing rugby to a high level, playing for Oxford University, Blackheath and the Barbarians.

Fry claimed that even well into his seventies he could still perform his party trick. This entailed him jumping up on to a mantelpiece, first facing the mantelpiece, crouching down and leaping upwards, turning in the air and bowing to his audience with his feet firmly on the top of the mantelpiece.
After winning a scholarship, Fry was educated at Repton School and then at Wadham College, Oxford. he won his university Blue in football, cricket and athletics, but narrowly failed to win a Blue in rugby union because of an injury.
Fry was captain of the Oxford University cricket team in 1894, meaning that he was simultaneously not only captain of both the university cricket and football teams but president of the varsity athletics club as well.
Apart from his other sporting achievements stated, Fry was also a decent shot putter, hammer thrower and ice skater, representing Wadham in the inter-College races on Blenheim lake in the winter of 1894-95 and coming close to an unofficial Blue as a member of the

Oxford team who took on Cambridge on the Fens, as well as being a proficient golfer.

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