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Charles Goodman Tebbutt

Charles Goodman Tebbutt

English speed skater and bandy player

Charles Goodman Tebbutt (1860–1944) was an English speed skater[1] and bandy player[2] from Bluntisham, England, in the Fens of Cambridgeshire where Fen skating was a popular winter activity in the nineteenth century.

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Charles Goodman Tebbutt doing a speed skating pose in 1889

He also wrote articles and books about speed skating and bandy, including several chapters in the Badminton Library book Skating (1892) with John Moyer Heathcote.[3] He wrote a chapter on matches in Holland and Sweden in A Handbook of Bandy by Arnold Tebbutt.[4]

He is said to have been the first player to establish the rules of bandy and popularize the sport in Northern Europe, Sweden, Norway and Denmark.

References

  1. [1]
    Photo of the speed skater Charles Goodman Tebbutt[permanent dead link]
  2. [2]
    Photo of the bandy player Charles Goodman Tebbutt[permanent dead link]
  3. [3]
    Heathcote, J.M.; Tebbutt, C.G. (1892). Skating. Longmans, Green and Co. OL 7132924M.
  4. [4]
    Arnold Tebbutt (1896). A Handbook of Bandy; or, Hockey on the Ice. Horace Cox.


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