1902–03 French Rugby Union Championship
The winner of the 1902–03 French Rugby Union Championship first division was Stade Français who managed to beat Stade olympiens des étudiants toulousains (SOET) in the finals.
1902–03 French Rugby Union Championship | |
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Champions | Stade Français |
Runners-up | SOE Toulouse |
Qualifications
Racing Club were supposed to be the champions of Paris (the team representing Paris in the Union Championship), having won against Le Havre A.C, but they were disqualified as one of their players was not properly licensed, so instead, Stade Français managed to qualify, by beating Le Havre 14–0.
SOET were the champions of the Garonne Region, they qualified after beating Stade Bordelais (8–3).
First round
- FC Grenoble beats Union Athlétique de Provence
- FC Lyon beats Chalon 36-0 in Chalon on the 22nd of February
Quarter finals
- Toulouse beats Bordeaux 8-3 in Toulouse on the 1st of March
- Le Havre beats Chartres 9-0 at Parc des Princes Stadium on the 8th of march
- FC Lyon beats Grenoble 6-0 in Lyon on the 22nd of March. Despite having already beaten them in a previous match the 15th of March, the FC Lyon and FC Grenoble faced each-other again. Due to an error in the previous game, where the referee had forgotten to make the teams switch sides of the field during overtime, an appeal had been issued for a rematch by Grenoble.
Semi-Finals
- Toulouse beats FC Lyon 3-0 on the 29 of March at Parc des Princes Stadium
- Stade français beats Le Havre 14-0 in Le Havre on the 5th of April
Final
Teams | Stade Français – SOE toulousains |
Score | 16–8 (11–0) |
Date | Sunday 26 April 1903 |
Venue | Prairie des Filtres (Toulouse) |
Referee | Robert Coulon |
Line-up | |
Stade Français | M.Cheno, Raoul Saulnier, Guillaume Beaurin, Fernando Ancona, Émile Lesieur, Henri Amand, Stuart Forsyth, Allan Muhr (Team Captain), M.Barbe, Charles Beaurin, Pierre Gaudermen, Pierre Rousseau, R.Holbert, G.Poirier, Georges Jérôme |
SOE toulousains | François Jacoubet, Augustin Pujol, Albert Bongras, Auguste Fabregat, Bories, Denis Gaubain, Arrascle, Albert Cuillé, Georges Merle, Joannes Fischer, G.Huggins, Jean Lagaillarde, Paul Bordreuil, Camille Herbray, Picart |
Scorers | |
Stade Français | 4 tries Lesieur, Ancona, Jérôme, Amand 2 conversions by Muhr |
SOE toulousains | 2 tries Fischer, Fabrégat 1 conversion by Pujol |
Two of the students from SOET, Albert Cuillé and Augustin Pujol later played for Stade Français in the final in 1906.
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External links
- Compte rendu de la finale de 1903, sur lnr.fr
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