Allan Muhr

Allan Muhr

Player information
Full name	Allan Henry Muhr
birthday	January 23, 1882
place of birth	Philadelphia , United States
date of death	December 29, 1944
Place of death	Neuengamme concentration camp , Nazi state
Nickname	"Le Sioux"
society
society	Career ended
position	Second row striker , number eight
Clubs as active
Years	society	Games (points)
? -?	Sporting Club Universitaire de France	()
1900-1905	Stade Français	()
? -1907	Racing 92	()
National team
Years	National team	Games (points)
1906-1907	France	3 (6)

Allan Henry Muhr (born January 23, 1882 in Philadelphia , † December 29, 1944 in Neuengamme concentration camp ) was an American rugby union player , sports official and reporter, and actor in France. The second and third striker was, although US citizen, used in three tests of the French rugby selection , including the first two international matches of France against the All Blacks and England .

Muhr went to Paris around the turn of the century, where he settled down for the rest of his life. He played rugby for the Racing Club and the Sporting Club Universitaire de France . In 1906 and 1907 he was the referee of the final of the French championship.

Muhr served voluntarily in the French army during the First World War and in the army of his home country after the American entry into the war. He was awarded the Croix de guerre for this and was accepted into the Legion of Honor as a Chevalier on May 16, 1919 .

As secretary for international affairs and as general sports commissioner, Muhr was on the board of the organizing committee for the 1924 Summer Games in Paris and for the first 1924 Winter Games in Chamonix. At the same time he was secretary of the Racing Club de France , which provided the IOC with its own stadium, the Stade de Colombes , as an Olympic stadium .

In 1922 and 1923 Muhr was also team captain of the French team for the Davis Cup in tennis .

Before the US entry into World War II , Muhr headed a unit of the American Red Cross . After the attack on Pearl Harbor he was taken prisoner by Germany and, because he was a Jew, was deported to the Neuengamme concentration camp and murdered on December 29, 1944.

Individual evidence

1. ^ Scrum database: entry on Allan Muhr. ESPN , accessed September 16, 2009 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Entry on Muhr, Allan Henry. In: Player Database. Fédération Française de Rugby, accessed September 28, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Parc des Princes, Paris, 8 avril 1906 - STADE BORDELAIS UC 9 - STADE FRANCAIS 00. In: Encyclopédie du rugby français, P. Lafond & JP Bodis, éditions Dehedin. Ligue National de Rugby, archived from the original on January 28, 2005 ; Retrieved September 16, 2009 . 
4. ↑ Route du Médoc, Le Bouscat, 24 mars 1907 - STADE BORDELAIS UC 14 - STADE FRANCAIS 3. In: Encyclopédie du rugby français, P. Lafond & JP Bodis, éditions Dehedin. Ligue National de Rugby, archived from the original on October 14, 2005 ; Retrieved September 16, 2009 . 
5. ^ The war record of American Jews: first report of the Office of war records. The American Jewish Committee, 1919, p. 25 , accessed September 16, 2009 (online version; archive.org; pdf: 2.00 MB). 
6. ^ Decorates 34 Americans .; Gene. Berdoulat Gives Legion of Honor Crosses to AEF Officers. , New York Times , June 8, 1919, p. 25, ( pdf ).
7. ↑ Comité Olympice Français: Les jeux de la VIII Olympiad (. Official Final Report of the VIII Olympic Games), p.40.
8. ^ Between 50 and 60 Nations Will Compete In 1924 Olympic Games, Says Secretary Muhr , New York Times , July 30, p. 28 ( pdf ).
9. ^ Anne Marie Waser: Tennis in France, 1880-1930 ; In: International Journal of the History of Sport, Volume 13, Issue 2, 1996; Pp. 166ff, 170.