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René Ressejac-Duparc
René Ressejac-Duparc (28 September 1880 – 19 April 1941) was a French footballer who played as a midfielder and who competed in the 1900 Olympic Games, winning a silver medal as a member of the USFSA team, which was primarily Club Français players. With Club Français, he won back-to-back Coupe Manier titles in 1899 and 1900, and he also reached the finals of the 1900 Challenge International du Nord, and of the 1899 and 1900 USFSA Football Championship. Early and personal life René Ressejac-Duparc was born on 28 September 1880, lived in Puteaux, and was employed at the Banque de France. He had connections to Loire-Atlantique through his mother (originally from Châteaubriant), as well as a home in Pornic, where he died on 19 April 1941, at the age of 60. Biographer Stéphane Gachet suggested Duparc was in Pornic "perhaps to take refuge during the war". Duparc remained practically unknown and of uncertain identity for several decades since he was only cited in the datab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Suresnes
Suresnes () is a commune in the western inner suburbs of Paris, France. Located in Hauts-de-Seine, from the centre of Paris, it had a population of 49,482 as of 2020. Suresnes borders the Bois de Boulogne in the 16th arrondissement of Paris, across the Seine. Its neighbouring communes are Nanterre, Puteaux, Rueil-Malmaison and Saint-Cloud. Suresnes's landmarks include the Mémorial de la France combattante, where an annual ceremony is held on 18 June, as well as Suresnes American Cemetery and Memorial nearby, below Fort Mont-Valérien, in addition to Foch Hospital in the town centre. The commune is served by Suresnes–Mont-Valérien station on the Transilien network and by two stops on Île-de-France tramway Line 2, all three giving access to the La Défense business district and its RER A, RER E and Paris Métro Line 1 services. History Fort Mont-Valérien (along with its Mémorial de la France combattante) is situated in the commune, as is Suresnes Americ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
USFSA Football Championship
U.S. Figure Skating is the national Sports governing body, governing body for the sport of figure skating in the United States. It is recognized as such by the United States Olympic & Paralympic Committee (USOPC) under the Amateur Sports Act of 1978, Ted Stevens Olympic and Amateur Sports Act and is the United States member of the International Skating Union (ISU). Although the official name of the organization is "the United States Figure Skating Association," it is now known as and conducts business under the name "U.S. Figure Skating." Founded in 1921, U.S. Figure Skating regulates and governs the sport and defines and maintains the standard of skating proficiency. It specifies the rules for testing, competitions, and all other figure skating related activities. U.S. Figure Skating promotes interest and participation in the sport by assisting member clubs, skaters, and athletes, appointing officials, organizing competitions, exhibitions, and other figure skating pursuits, and of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1899 USFSA Football Championship
The 1899 USFSA Football Championship was the 6th staging of the USFSA Football Championship. This edition was the first of the new version created that year by the USFSA, which decided to extend the competition beyond the Paris region in order to increase the popularity of the sport across the country. This edition, which was open to provincial clubs, is thus considered by many as the first real French championship with teams from Paris and the Province. Overview In the Paris Championship, Standard Athletic Club and Club français finished level on points, so a play-off had to be played to decide the winner. Club français won 3–2. Two northern teams from the Province, Le Havre Athletic Club and the Nord champion Iris Club Lillois, faced each other in the semifinal on 19 February 1899 at the Parc des Princes, with the winner playing the final against the best team from Paris (Club français), but this game never took place due to a grotesque organizational problem: No ball at k ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Standard Athletic Club
The Standard Athletic Club is a British social club in Paris, created on 1 March 1890, as the fourth football club in France, the oldest one being Le Havre AC. The Standard Athletic Club won the first List of French football champions, French football championship in 1894 in association football, 1894, and then again in 1895, 1897, 1898 and 1901. It also represented France for the one and only Cricket at the 1900 Summer Olympics, cricket match in the Olympic Games. History The club was founded on 1 March 1890, in the back-room of the "Horse shoe" bar at ''rue Copernic'' in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, 8th arrondissement. The club won the first ever Football Championship of France in 1894 and supplied most of the French team that played the only cricket match ever to be held in an Olympiad, at the Paris 1900 Olympic Games. Up to the war, the main sporting activities were association football, football, tennis, field hockey, and cricket. The hockey teams played in the national F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
