Rugby union at the 1900 Summer Olympics

The in the French capital Paris as part of the World's Fair ( Exposition Universelle et Internationale de Paris) discharged International competitions for Physical Education and Sport ( Concours Internationaux d' Exercices et de Physique Sports) also included two rugby games. The International Olympic Committee (IOC ) ranked these games the program of the Olympic Games to 1900 ( Games of the II Olympiad ). Rugby that until 1863 had a common history with the football, had thus early in the history of the Olympic Games equality for football.

Men

The management of the World's Fair had provided three games between the French selection, and one each club team from Germany and the United Kingdom, which should compete against each other in each case. It was in the concert promoters but not at a tournament, but three equal games with their own winners and prizes. For scheduled for October 21 game against Germany, the British could not arrive in time, so that there were only two games.

Team events were generally advertised at the time as competition between club or association teams. These represented generally at international competitions each country in which the club or federation was established. The German team consisted mainly of the based in Frankfurt am Main Association Football Club Frankfurt (later SC 1880 Frankfurt). The team was but additionally strengthened by Hugo Betting from FV Stuttgart 93, and has since been elected by August scribbler who after he had left the football club Frankfurt in 1897 as Chief Executive of the Cannstatt football clubs. From Great Britain traveled under the name Moseley Wanderers a selection of players of Moseley RFC and other teams from the Midlands to. The crew of the French Association des Sociétés Françaises de Sports Union Athlétiques ( USFSA ) was actually a team that today's notion of a national resembles. There was a selection team with players from the best French rugby clubs.

Games

The play of the French against the German team took place on 28 October and on 14 October against the British. Venue for both matches was the Municipal Velodrome on the site of the World Expo in Vincennes. Played the most widely used variant of rugby union in which a team of 15 players was.

The match between France and Germany was all parties to form, even the French audience and press, because incomprehensible decisions of the referee scandal. The superiority of the German national team was reflected in the guide at halftime. The longer the game, the incomprehensible, the French referee whistled, Monsieur Potter. The Germans a proposal before the game, to appoint an English referee, was rejected. So the suspicion of partisanship remains unausgeräumt. 3500 spectators watched the game.

The second game was led by the same referee, weighed on the now the shadow of the first game. However, this game was free to think of any party name, was the French team and there was a clear result. The British were, however, only traveled the night before the game to France - some players were still used on the previous day at a home game and thus completely exhausted. With 6,000 spectators the game France - England was the most visited sports event of the entire Olympic Games 1900.

Despite the lack of character of a tournament, the IOC has retroactively adopted a final position and made ​​an allocation of the medals, which, as shown, is also reflected in the medals table. By not playing that have been made between the British and Germany both teams in the second place was assigned.

U.S.F.S.A. Vladimir Aitoff, A. Albert, Léon Binoche, Jean Collas, Jean -Guy Gautier, Auguste Giroux, Charles Gondouin, Constantin Henriquez de Zubiera, J. Hervé, Victor Larchandet, Hubert Lefebvre, Joseph Olivier, Alexandre Pharamond, Frantz Reichel, André Rischmann Albert Roosevelt, Emile Sarrade

Football Club Frankfurt Albert Amrhein, Hugo Betting1, Jacob Herrmann, Willy Hofmeister, Hermann Kreutzer, Arnold Landvoigt, Hans Latscha, Erich Ludwig, Richard Ludwig, Fritz Müller, Eduard Poppe, Heinrich Reitz, August Schmierer2, Adolf Stockhausen, Georg Wenderoth

Moseley Wanderers FC Baylis, J. Henry Birtles, James Cantion, Arthur Darby, Clement P. Deykin, L. Hood, ML Logan, HA Loveitt, Herbert S. Nicol, V. Smith, MW Talbot, JG Wallis, Claude Whittindale, Raymond Whittindale, Francis Henry Wilson

The French Collas, Gondouin, Henriquez de Zubiera and Sarrade represented two-thirds of the French team that took part in the competition in the tug of war.

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