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Parker's Piece is a 25-acre (100,000 m 2) flat and roughly square green common located near the centre of Cambridge, England, regarded by some as the birthplace of the rules of association football. [1]
Reality Checkpoint Detail of its base with graffiti in 2012 The inscription after its 2017 restoration and a Dinky Doors sculpture at its base. Reality Checkpoint is a large cast-iron lamppost in the middle of Parker's Piece, Cambridge, England, [1] at the intersection of the park's diagonal paths.
Parker's Piece (1907) The playing of football has a long history at Cambridge.In 1579, one match played at Chesterton between townspeople and University students ended in a violent brawl that led the Vice-Chancellor to issue a decree forbidding them to play "footeball" outside of college grounds. [2]
Cambridge Rules 1848: Parker's Piece: 2018: Alan Ward and Neville Gabie Monument: Stone: Marks the development of the Cambridge rules of football [13] Hercules Meets Galatea: Cambridge North railway station: 2021: Matthew Darbyshire: Sculpture [14] Dunamis
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However, the Cambridgeshire FA were unhappy with the state of the pitch at this new home, and the club moved to Parker's Piece at the start of the 1930–31 season. Despite the special significance of Parker's Piece in the history of football , it being the first place where the Cambridge Rules were played out, the lack of spectator capacity ...
Combination play by Cambridge University FC is suggested in contemporary accounts as early as Dec 1872: "The goal for the university was the result of the combined efforts of Adams, Sparham and Smith". [15] In this account Cambridge "played well together". [15] In 1882, and CUAFC were still playing on Parker's Piece.
A view on Parker's Piece looking towards Our Lady and the English Martyrs Church at the junction of Hills Road with Regent Street. A view of Parker's Piece from the north end of Regent Terrace (to the right). Regent Street is an arterial street in southeast central Cambridge, England.