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"Queerest Rooster" for New Zealand RWC 2011  The news broke up yesterday : All Blacks v France will kick off next Rugby World Cup in New Zealand !Okaaaaay... three more years to go... a loooong time ahead, I agree, but I must confess that I am starting to elaborate plans to travel down there...As a matter of coincidence, I receiced yesterday this funny cartoon from Christchurch, NZ, which show an interrogating "All Black" kiwi and a distressed "French" rooster, after the 3rd Test Match of France tour in NZ, 1961.The kiwi - wearing a "made in Europe " rugby crown - says "Queerest Rooster I ever saw - He laid an egg !", wheras the egg reads "Top Grade Reputation - Second Grade Performance"... no comment ! (full size pic here)I know... rugby memorabilia from the 60s isn't exactly my "pioneers" era... but apart from the topic (disclaimer : I am French...), I've found this item weird enough to join my collection... Actually, it's a 7" vinyl record of the commmentary of the game by Bob Irvine, published by HMV and NZ Broadcasting Service. Yes ! a rugby game on a record...! That day, a solid All Blacks side captained by Colin Meads defeated France 32 - 3 at Christchurch (5 tries to 1). Three tests and three disapointing defeats for a French side who was at the time the strongest European team (led by François Moncla with Guy & André Boniface, Guy Camberabero, Pierre Lacroix, Michel Crauste, Amédée Domenech...). Time goes by... and nothing changes... PS - and teaser ! - : I recently acquired "The Complete Rugby Footballer by D.Gallaher & W.J.Stead" written in 1906 by All Blacks captain and vice-captain Gallaher and Stead... the "Master" of all rugby books that I'll be happy to display and comment here...  02/12/2008 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Cambridge University : Holidays in France...  Souvenir postcard of a Cambridge University XV enjoying French rugby in the beautiful medieval city of Carcassonne...Sun... nature... good food... strong local teams (both Union and League)... definitely a good place for a rugby break with friends...From what I've read on the web, I understand that Cambridge teams (both RU and RL) have been regularly touring the region until now...Having said that, I guess that local rugby in the 1920s wasn't exactly a gentlemen rugby for students... but tough grassroots rugby in rural France... "rugby de clocher" (belfry rugby) as we say in French where local teams (used to ?) show exacerbated rivalry against eachother... Here is a larger picture of the C.U. team, if it could help someone to identify the team and date the picture.Post-Scriptum for my Rugby League friends : Carcassonne is the hometown of French RL "superstar" from the 50s, Puig Aubert aka "Pipette"... another story...  27/11/2008 | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Bad deal for Australia !  Our friends from Down Under messed up everything last week-end..."Plan A" was to have France defeating Australia in Paris in Rugby Union, while at the same time the Kangaroos were supposed to celebrate another victory in 2008 Rugby League World Cup in Brisbane...Things went all wrong... French fly-half David Skrela decided to miss no less that 6 easy penalty or drop kicks and let a good standing French side lose 13-18 vs Australia... At the same time, the Kiwis produced one of the biggest upsets in Rugby League history to become 2008 RL World Champions... As the newspaper read, the Kiwis "forced the engraver to scratch off the name of 'Australia' off the trophy"... 34-20 final score...Bad deal for Australia, indeed !Actually, my upper picture is the cover page of the programme of 3rd test match between Australia and France (yes, Rugby League !), in Sydney Cricket Ground, July 23rd. 1955. Not exactly my usual memorabilia, but nice gold and green however... (larger picture here @ Flickr )Thinking about early France-Australia fixtures, let's also share this cover print of French sports magazine "Sporting" dated January 24th 1928, showing French international forward Jean Galia, future pioneer of Rugby League in France in the 30s, breaking the Waratahs' line. That day, New South Wales (touring in Europe) managed a short 11-8 victory over France in Paris...  Headlines read "Les Waratahs à Paris" (Waratahs in Paris), whereas small caption explains "Les Neo-Gallois du Sud ont battu l'Equipe de France par 11 à 8 - Une trouée des avants français : GALIA soutenu par MORERE à sa droite et CAZENAVE à sa gauche, est passé entre M.BLAIR d'une part, et W.BRECKENBRIDGE et G.STOREY" (need for a translation ?). Jean Galia belongs to the "Hall of Fame" of French rugby and surely deserves a full story one of these days...But, say, the true reason of this Franco-Australian story today - half Wallabies, half Kangaroos - is to say "hello" and "thank you" to my friend Sean Fagan in Sydney... ;-)("Sporting" :large picture here - king size picture there...)rugby league, rugby union, wallabies, kangaroos, jean galia 24/11/2008 in 1 Rugby print | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0) "Contrechamp" : Springboks 1907  Dear Sandrine, I have been trying for ages to write a note called "Contrechamp"... and you will admit that it's not exactly obvious when my main topic is about rugby, in English moreover... Done deal, and end of private messages...French cinema vocabulary... "Shot - Reverse Shot" or "Champ - Contrechamp" in French..."Champ" : Paul Roos' Springboks in Paris, Parc des Princes, January 3rd 1907, before crunching 54-6 a Paris team (9 players from Stade Français incl. Combe, Lesieur, Jérome, Galichon...) NB : the "true" Equipe de France was playing in England two days after..."Contrechamp" : 12 French press photographers... I've never seen so many of them in my old documents ! The Springboks, stopping over in Paris after their triumphant tour in Great Britain in 1906, were celebrated as rugby "masters"... enough to deserve the front page of French main sports magazine "La Vie Au Grand Air" (cf below : Morkel kicking while Roos is holding the ball) The pictures don't come from the same newspaper... the upper one comes from "Les Sports Illustrés", the bottom one from "La Vie Au Grand Air"... Funnily, there was more competition in French sports press 100 years ago than today...
  PS : I know that apartheid was officially established in 1948, but it's worth mentionning that Paris team was captained by a coloured player, Georges Jérome from Stade Français... a gentleman famous enough (2 international caps, 5 championship finals) to appear twice on the cover page of "La Vie au Grand Air" in 1905...  rugby, springboks, paul roos, contrechamp 21/11/2008 in 1 Rugby print | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0) The Rugby world is a village...  10.41 am today : the stats of my website (cf the "Live Traffic Feed" widget, in the right column) show a strange configuration ... The last 10 visitors come from 10 different countries and from 5 different continents... : Singapore, France, South Africa, USA, Netherlands, Sweden, Laos, Australia, Italy and India (googling for "secret weapon postcards"...)I wasn't aware that Rugby Memorabilia was so... universal ! (so to say, Google likes me...)Checking the last 25 connections brings almost the same picture, adding visitors from Canada, Ireland, England, Germany, Thailand, Argentina, Wales, Korea and Japan...The Rugby world is a village, I said... PS : Hey, how would you like to illustrate internet traffic analysis with rugby images ?!?... instead, here is the nice cover of boys' magazine "The Captain", November 1931... universal picture, as well !(large pic here @ Flickr) rugby 19/11/2008 in 1 Rugby print, 5 Other rugby stuff | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Rugby, Weapons & Cycles - St Etienne  First, this is a wonderful early 1900 rugby illustration (no date...) by E.Letellier... All what I like in collecting rugby... Second, this is the cover page of the catalogue of one of French leading mail order companies at the time: Manufacture Française d'Armes et Cycles de St.Etienne (French Factory of Weapons & Cycles in St.Etienne), a.k.a. "ManuFrance", founded in 1885 in St.Etienne."ManuFrance" went bankrupt in the 80s, but the brand surely remains strong in the memory of French readers... "ManuFrance" is strongly tied, on one hand, to its own monthly magazine "Le Chasseur Français" ("The French Hunter")- a "must read" in rural France (and, say, a real source of fun for urban and modern readers...), and, on the other hand, to the local (Association) Football team A.S.St Etienne which was sponsored by ManuFrance in its golden years... (Champions' League final lost in 1978 to Bayern Munich...)Back to the 1900s..., "ManuFrance" was then manufacturing all kind of rugby football equipement - mostly leather goods - i.e. balls, shoes - but also rugby kits... here are a few pages, from resp. 1911 and 1924.  P.S. : this website is entirely dedicated to pre-WW2 rugby... so, this is a unique opportunity to share this fine cover from "Le Chasseur Français" dated 1954, by French artist Paul Order. (large pictures, top down, here, here and there... and the last one also...) 17/11/2008 in 1 Rugby print | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Colonial Rugby ! Noumea, New Caledonia c.1905  Colonial Rugby !I like searching for old rugby pictures from "unusual" countries... I mean countries where you shouldn't expect rugby to be played in the early days of the XXth century... We all know that British merchants, sailors and soldiers had been playing the game almost everywhere possible, but I am always surprised to find rugby games in former French colonies (Africa, Indochina) or territories...Here is a postcard showing a football rugby game ("une partie de football à l'Anse Vata") in Noumea, New Caledonia.Should I recall that New Caledonia is a French Overseas Territory in the Pacific Ocean (cf map here, half-way from Australia, New Zealand and Fidji... Hence a natural place for rugby, even though, in fact, I am afraid that Caledonian rugby is not as developped as it could (should) be ; I am sure that French rugby could benefit from the input of Caledonian athletes if they are made from the same steel as other ruggers from the Pacific Region...Back to my postcard (hi res picture here)... there is no date, but it comes from a postcard series issued c.1905... no indications about the players neither, even if we could think of military teams. Any hint would be welcome... !You can see the ball (a bit fuzzy...) one meter above the head of the fullback in white... I always wonder how sports photographers were working in these early days to capture rugby action... he's almost missed the ball, but it remains a good action shot...Anse Vata ("Vata Bay") is now part of Noumea, but in the early 1900s the place was unhabited and it only was a destination for leasure, riding and walking. A velodrome was built there as early as 1895... and cycling remains one the most popular sports in New Caledonia ! Here is the track in this other postcard from the same series (I've found this picture on the net - I don't know who to credit...) Well ! this post is also a small tribute to the Pacific Islanders who'll be touring France next Saturday... let's hope that the game will be more attractive than this sad France v Argentina last week...And, before leaving, what about this sunset on Vata Bay... ? New Caledonia is possibly one of the most beautiful places on Earth... (CC BY-NC-SA imageo - Thank you)rugby, new caledonia, noumea, anse vata 13/11/2008 in 2 Rugby postcard | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Art & Rugby ! Delaunay "Equipe de Cardiff" 1913  What a discovery (for me, at least...) !My friend Pierre, sucessful entrepreneur and former rugger at Stade Français and RC Le Chesnay (the only French club with no website ??), referred to me last week this fantastic painting from Robert Delaunay, named "Equipe de Cardiff", first exhibited in 1913 and now at Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris.Artists have often seen sports as an opportunity to capture modernity, movement, speed, bodies, colours... this painting brings all this, and much more... mixing the rugby game, the Eiffel tower (a recurring theme in Delaunay's work) and Paris Ferris Wheel, an aeroplane, advertising (Astra is a aeroplane manufacturer) in a splendid collage-like composition. Quote from Delaunay "Movement is produced by the rapport of odd elements, of the contrasts of colors between themselves which constitutes Reality"The group of ruggers is said to be a photography of French (and not from Cardiff, I'm afraid...) players published in La Vie Au Grand Air, but did not manage to find it... Let's also remember that this pre-ww1 era was a great time for aviation pioneers (the Wright Bros first flying in 1903... Louis Bleriot crossing the Channel in 1909...). Here is (more or less) the same plane flying over Paris... Interestingly, Delaunay worked out several other versions of his "Equipe de Cardiff" between 1912 and 1922... I've found three others now exhibited in Paris, Eindhoven (Van Abbemuseum) and Edinburgh (National Galleries of Scotland).    You will find Delaunay's bio (in English) and some other paintings on this nice website. Enjoy !(all pictures are copyrighted - credit to their respective owners)rugby, Delaunay 07/11/2008 in 1 Rugby print, 6 Not so rugby | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Galllery of freaks, 1899 - This is not rugby...       Flipping through the pages of a 1899 French Sports Newspaper ("Le Sport Universel Illustré"), I suddenly faced this incredible gallery of Music-Hall "freaks" riding their bicycle... All of them appeared in a show in London... brrr, it reminds me of "Elephant Man"...From left to right, and from top to bottom, here are "Le Pédaleur à la tête de veau" ("calf-head cyclist"), "Le cycliste à la tête de chien" ("dog-head cyclist"), "Le pédaleur-squelette" ("skeletton-cyclist"), "La cycliste barbue" ("bearded-woman cyclist"), "Le cycliste cul-de-jatte" (it's explicit...), "Le cycliste manchot" ("no-armed cyclist"). (click for lager pics).Which one is your favorite ?rugby, freaks 06/11/2008 in 1 Rugby print | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0) Famous Rugby Footballers, 1895     The "Famous Footballers" were a series of high quality photographies edited by C.W.Alcock and Rowland Hill in 1895 (published by Hudson & Kearns). It came as a 12 pages weekly leaflet (cf below... too large for my A4 scanner...), or as individual sheets within "News of the World" newspaper. Strong and glossy paper... sharp pictures... the quality is just amazing... All pictures were shot in studio, in sometimes fairly kitsch settings...The full series comprizes of 224 large photographies, i.e. 108 Association Footballers and 116 Ruggers... All the best British players from the 90s (1890s I mean...) are featured here... a fine journey between Home Countries (Scotland, Wales, Ireland and England) and major clubs, universities or counties from then (Blackheath, Moseley, Newport, Cardiff, Cambridge, Oxford, Lancashire, Midland County etc...)... a great way to capture that pioneers era...You can sometimes find these pictures as a rare, expensive and beautiful king-size bounded book... I do collect them one by one... or can sometimes find a leaflet... I do have about fifty of them... some other posts in the future ! By the way, there are four of them hanging on my office wall to welcome you, should you pay me a visit in Paris !As a starter today, here are Paul Clauss of Scotland (a member of the team that toured South Africa in 1891), A.J.Gould of Newport and Wales, J.H. Rogers of Moseley and England, B.B.Tuke of Ireland (click on the links to get larger pics).To be continued... rugby, famous footballers 30/10/2008 in 1 Rugby print | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0) When Paris was giving lessons to Toulouse students… 1903 final This afternoon, Stade Français lost in Stade de France vs Stade Toulousain… first defeat of the season for my favourite team… Say, my story is a tribute to the roots and rise of Toulousain (*) rugby. This text is the translation of a recent post (in plain French…) on the forum of Stade Français website, where I regularly share some Parisian memorabilia (my ID is “Frederic 1892”).  1903… the supremacy of Parisian teams Stade Français and Racing Club de France is contested as rugby is rising in South-West France… Bordeaux became champion in 1899 and managed to play the final every season since then (defeated by Stade Français in 1900 and 1901.. by RCF in 1902…)Stade Français was lead by Scot Jack Muir… my picture is not the team who played the final as it was shot three months earlier in Paris, but most key-players are there : Henri Amand (future international cap n°1 in 1906), Monrouval brothers (both students at « Polythechnique »), Gaudermen, Beaurin… (future international players G.Jérome and E.Lesieur are however missing).The organization of early 1900s French Championship is simple… the best of provincial teams of the year vs the best of Parisian teams of the year…In the North, Racing Club de France had won the « Championship of Paris » and was ready to play the final… but was disqualified for having played with an English rugger with no registered licence… and was replaced by Stade Français (SF defeating Le Havre in play-offs)In the South, surprise came from S.O.E.T (Stade Olympique des Etudiants Toulousains), which managed its way to the final defeating Stade Bordelais (Bordeaux) and F.C.Lyon. The first rugby final in Toulouse history… obviously not the last one… French Rugby Union decided to play the final in Toulouse (possibly to promote rugby outside of Paris) on April 26th 1903. In these days, there was no stadium in Toulouse… games were played on « Prairies des Flitres », i.e. an open field along river Garonne inside the city… until 1907 when « Stade des Ponts Jumeaux » (« Twin bridges Stadium»…) would be built.Stade Français winger Emile Lesieur recalls a final where the guys from Paris did show more speed and tactics than their oppponents…Final score16-8, i.e. 4 tries to 2 for Stade Français.Stats (in French) and details are brought here by my friends from finalesrugby.com Rugby trivia now ! let’s mention that one of the four Parisian tries was scored by Mexican three-quarter Fernando Ancona… I believe that this is the only time in French rugby that a Mexican athlete enters into official records (and what about world rugby ? I haven’t even checked if Mexico is affiliated to IRB…). Let’s also note that there were two Scot players (Muir et Forsyth) in Paris team... opening the way for Simon Taylor this season…Stade Toulousain “as we know it” was created in 1907 in direct connection from SOET… to make a long story short, Stade Toulousain inherits from four clubs… As early as 1896 (the prehistory of French rugby…), "Olympique Toulousain" (a team from Toulouse HiSchool « lycée ») and "Stade Toulousain" (another team from the same Toulouse « lycée »…) merged to create the "Stade Olympien des Etudiants de Toulouse" (SOET), while later, in 1905, "Union Sportive de l'Ecole Vétérinaire" (Vet’School team) and "Sport Athlétique Toulousain" merged into USEVT "Veto-Sports"… SOET et USEVT merged in 1907 to create Stade Toulousain…A bit complicated… but students only !Among 1903 Toulouse young ruggers , some will become key-players of Stade Toulousain : Fabregat (hidden in the second row of SOET team picture, with an impressive beard…) then first captain of Stade Toulousain, Cuillé or Toto Pujol, eccentric and eclectic athlete who will be capped in 1906… under Stade Français colours and will end his sporting career in Wales... Here are the guys in 1909 with Stade Toulousain : another lost final ! Otherwise, the rise of Toulousain (*) rugby that year 1903 must have stimulated the guys from Bordeaux… they will then put a stong hold on French Championship… winning in 1904, 1905, 1906 and 1907… until Stade Français “come back” in 1908… the last one before modern times… 1998 actually...Here are larger pics of SF, SOET or ST(*) Toulousain ? Toulousan ? how do you say "Toulousain" in English ??Technorati Tags: rugby, stade français, stade toulousain, SOET 26/10/2008 in 1 Rugby print, 2 Rugby postcard | Permalink | Comments (1) | TrackBack (0) The most ridiculous rugby postcards EVER   French postcards... no date...Freaking cards indeed !... outrageous make-up, kitsch and cheap studio background, ridiculous posing - especially the one where the guy seems to head at the ball -, fooball association jersey, insane sepia colours... weird ! I don't think that this photographer has ever attended to a rugby match...If I may ask a question : why this ??rugby 21/10/2008 in 2 Rugby postcard | Permalink | Comments (2) | TrackBack (0) Suivante » Who would like to advertise here ? Premium Content - Niche Targeted Audience - 8000 PV/month En Français Auf Deutsch En Español In Italiano En Català
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