{{Short description|England international rugby union player}} {{Infobox rugby biography | name = Eric Steinthal | image = | caption = | full_name = Francis Eric Steinthal | birth_date = {{birth date|1886|11|21|df=y}} | birth_place = Bradford, Yorkshire, England | death_date = {{death date and age|1974|05|23|1886|11|21|df=y}} | death_place = Cuckfield, Sussex, England | height = | weight = | occupation = | school = | university = | relatives = | position = Centre | repyears1 = 1913 | repteam1 = {{nrut|England}} | repcaps1 = 2 | reppoints1 = 0 }} '''Francis Eric Steinthal''' (21 November 1886 – 23 May 1974), also known as '''Francis Eric Petrie''', was an English international rugby union player.
Of German-Jewish descent, Steinthal was born in Bradford and attended Bradford Grammar School. His father was a local yarn merchant and his mother an artist. He read history at Trinity College, Oxford.<ref name="Trinity">{{cite journal |title=Lot 132 ‘Trinity College Oxford, An Album’ |journal=Trinity (The Newsletter of Trinity College Oxford) |issue=Spring 2023 |pages=16 & 17}}</ref>
Steinthal, an Oxford blue, was a centre three-quarter and represented Yorkshire from 1906 to 1913. He gained two England caps during their grand slam-winning 1913 Five Nations campaign, in back to back matches against Wales at Cardiff and France at Twickenham.<ref>{{cite news |title=Wales v. England |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/798660342 |work=The Gloucestershire Echo |date=18 January 1913}}</ref>
In World War I, Steinthal adopted his mother's maiden name Petrie, to serve in the Royal Fusiliers.<ref>{{cite news |title=Brothers in arms stuck together as war rages |url=https://www.ilkleygazette.co.uk/news/11832162.brothers-in-arms-stuck-together-as-war-rages/ |work=Ilkley Gazette |date=4 March 2015 |language=en}}</ref>
Steinthal was a schoolmaster by profession and married German-born artist Maria Petrie (née Zimmern). They immigrated to Santa Barbara, California, and he took up American citizenship in 1949, but lived his final years back in England, after the death of his wife.<ref name="Trinity" />
==See also== *List of England national rugby union players
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{ESPNscrum|2366}}
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