Alfred Eluère

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Alfred Eluère (born July 28, 1893 in Saint-Clément-des-Levées , Maine-et-Loire department ; † March 12, 1985 in Narrosse , Landes department ) was a French rugby union player and sports official . The winger won in 1920 with France Olympia - silver and was in the 1940 president of the French Rugby Federation, the French Rugby Federation (FFR) and the then largest French sports association, the Comité national des sports (CNS).

During the First World War , Eluère played for a French military selection of the FFR in 1917. After the end of the war, he built the team of the Sporting Club Universitaire de France (SCUF) again with. For the club he played from 1919 to 1923, including 1919 and 1922 as captain. He was appointed to the French national team in 1920. For the games at the Five Nations tournament in 1920 he was part of the squad, but was not used. For this he played in the only game against the USA at the Olympic rugby tournament in Antwerp in 1920 , which was not recognized by the French association as a real international match.

After his active career, he changed to the leadership of the SCUF and the FFR, whose president from 1943 to 1952 Eluère was. In 1947, as President of the FFR, he proposed the introduction of a regular tournament involving the national teams of the southern and northern hemisphere, i.e. a Rugby Union World Cup . However, this was rejected by the four British federations of the International Rugby Board . The tense relationship between the CNS, which prefers amateur and popular sport , and the COF ( Comité olympique français , the French NOK ), which focuses on elite sport , did not ease when Eluère succeeded FIFA boss Jules Rimet as President of the CNS. With the priorities of the French government, the COF finally separated from the CNS and ultimately surpassed it in importance. Only after the end of Eluère's presidency in 1966 did the two associations converge and finally merged in 1972.

From 1935 to 1972 he was mayor of the seaside resort of Hossegor in the Landes department .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Scrum database: Entry on Alfred Eluère. ESPN , accessed September 15, 2009 .
  2. ↑ a b c d Alfred Eluere (1893–1985). Sporting Club Universitaire de France, Section Rugby, archived from the original on March 24, 2010 ; Retrieved September 15, 2009 .
  3. ↑ L'histoire de la coupe du monde de rugby ( Memento from September 6, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) ( French )
  4. ^ A b Yoan Grosset, Michaël Attali: The French National Olympic and Sports Committee: a history of the institutionalization of sport and Olympism, 1908–1975 ( Memento of September 20, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF), in: Olympika - The International Journal of Olympic Studies, Volume XVII 2008, pp. 134ff, 140, 141.
  5. ↑ Le premier présidentde la SATEL. (PDF; 1.13 MB) In: Seignosse Magazine No. 8. Mairie de Seignosse., 2005, p. 21 , archived from the original on November 12, 2008 ; Retrieved September 12, 2009 .

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personal data
SURNAME Eluère, Alfred
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French rugby union player and sports official
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Clément-des-Levées , Maine-et-Loire department
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1985
Place of death Narrosse , Landes department