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unusual facts about J. S. Fry



1901–02 Southampton F.C. season

The club still had the services of top amateur players, with C. B. Fry continuing to play when he could, especially in FA Cup ties, and his friend, Geoffrey Plumpton Wilson making three appearances at centre-forward in October.

2000 Rose Bowl

The animated series Futurama occasionally references this game, as part of a running gag that the mother of the protagonist (Phillip J. Fry) is a devout football fan.

A Clone of My Own

The Planet Express staff each expects one of them will be named, including Fry, but Farnsworth reveals that his successor will be a 12-year-old clone of himself, Cubert Farnsworth.

Bertram Sharp

In December 1900, Southampton acquired the services of C. B. Fry, the celebrated amateur footballer – whenever Fry was available to play, Sharp was required to give way, thus missing several important games, including the FA Cup First Round defeat by Everton.

C. B. Fry

His son, Stephen Fry, his grandson, Charles Fry, and his cousin, Kenneth Fry (1883–1949), all played first-class cricket.

Graham Leonard

Nine portraits of Leonard (1962 by Elliott & Fry and 1979 by Bassano and Vandyk) are owned by the National Portrait Gallery.

Joseph John Gurney

He was the brother of Elizabeth (Gurney) Fry, a reformer, and Louisa Gurney Hoare, a writer on education, and also the brother-in-law — through his sister Hannah — of Thomas Fowell Buxton, an anti-slavery campaigner.

Speed S. Fry

He graduated from Wabash College in Crawfordsville, Indiana, in 1840 and returned to Danville to practice law under his uncle.

TS Mercury

In June 1898 Beatrice Holme-Sumner married C. B. Fry, the great England cricketer and all-round sportsman, and in 1908, after the death of Hoare, Fry became the Mercury's Captain-Superintendent.

Where No Fan Has Gone Before

Zapp Brannigan holds a court-martial of Bender, Leela, Fry, and most of the cast of Star Trek: The Original Series, for traveling to the forbidden planet Omega 3.


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