Joé Anduran
Encyclopedia
Marie Jean-Baptiste Joseph Anduran, better known as Joé Anduran or Joe Anduran, was a French rugby union
player. He was born on 24 April 1882 in Bayonne
, and died at Bois-Bernard
in the Pas-de-Calais on 2 October 1914, during the First World War.
He was 1.74 m tall and weighed 75 kg. He usually played hooker, with SCUF (Sporting club universitaire de France); after 1908 he served as section secretary, he won the Paris Championship as captain of their second team in 1912, and in 1913 he was in the first team that lost in the final of the national championship.
A soldier with the French infantry, he was killed in 1914, the first year of World War I, leaving behind two children, Jacqueline, who was six years old and Jean, who was five months old.
was admitted into the Five Nations Championship for the first time in 1910.
The French side had only 14 players when the players got together the day before the match at the Gare Saint-Lazare
. The team manager, Charles Brennus, engaged the Parisian player Anduran on short notice to fill out the team, enabling them to play their first match in the tournament with a complete squad. He was relatively easy to find, because he was an art dealer and was opening a show that day.
Rugby union
Rugby union, often simply referred to as rugby, is a full contact team sport which originated in England in the early 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand...
player. He was born on 24 April 1882 in Bayonne
Bayonne
Bayonne is a city and commune in south-western France at the confluence of the Nive and Adour rivers, in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, of which it is a sub-prefecture...
, and died at Bois-Bernard
Bois-Bernard
Bois-Bernard is a commune in the Pas-de-Calais department in the Nord-Pas-de-Calais region of France.-Geography:A farming village located 10 miles northeast of Arras on the D919 and D46 roads.-History:...
in the Pas-de-Calais on 2 October 1914, during the First World War.
He was 1.74 m tall and weighed 75 kg. He usually played hooker, with SCUF (Sporting club universitaire de France); after 1908 he served as section secretary, he won the Paris Championship as captain of their second team in 1912, and in 1913 he was in the first team that lost in the final of the national championship.
A soldier with the French infantry, he was killed in 1914, the first year of World War I, leaving behind two children, Jacqueline, who was six years old and Jean, who was five months old.
was admitted into the Five Nations Championship for the first time in 1910.
The French side had only 14 players when the players got together the day before the match at the Gare Saint-Lazare
Gare Saint-Lazare
Paris Saint-Lazare is one of the six large terminus train stations of Paris. It is the second busiest in Paris, behind the Gare du Nord, handling 274,000 passengers each day.-History:...
. The team manager, Charles Brennus, engaged the Parisian player Anduran on short notice to fill out the team, enabling them to play their first match in the tournament with a complete squad. He was relatively easy to find, because he was an art dealer and was opening a show that day.
International
- Joe Anduran played in just one international match, as hooker against WalesWales national rugby union teamThe Wales national rugby union team represent Wales in international rugby union tournaments. They compete annually in the Six Nations Championship with England, France, Ireland, Italy and Scotland. Wales have won the Six Nations and its predecessors 24 times outright, second only to England with...
in the 1910 Five Nations Championship1910 Five Nations ChampionshipThe 1910 Five Nations Championship was the first series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship following the inclusion of France into the Home Nations Championship. Including the previous Home Nations Championships, this was the twenty-eighth series of the annual northern hemisphere rugby...
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External links
- Player file at ffr.fr