Jean Dupuy (25 May 1934,
Vic-en-Bigorre-27 October 2010, same town) was a French
rugby union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In it ...
footballer. He was a left-wing for
Stadoceste Tarbais, where he debuted aged 19, and the
French national side, gaining 40
caps
Caps are flat headgear.
Caps or CAPS may also refer to:
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and scoring 19 tries. He was 1.75 m high and weighed 84 kg.
He consecutively won 4
Five Nations Championships (along with
Michel Crauste
Michel Crauste (6 July 1934 – 2 May 2019) was a French international rugby union player. He played as a flanker and number eight for Racing Club de France and FC Lourdes.
Crauste was born in Saint-Laurent-de-Gosse, France. He earned his fir ...
,
Alfred Roques,
Jacques Bouquet and
Henri Rancoule), in
1959
Events January
* January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance.
* January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...
,
1960
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Events
January
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(along with
England
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),
1961
Events January
* January 3
** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba (Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015).
** Aero Flight 311 (K ...
and
1962
Events January
* January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand.
* January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism.
* January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wor ...
.
External links
Statistics on espnscrum.com
French rugby union players
1934 births
2010 deaths
Sportspeople from Hautes-Pyrénées
Rugby union wings
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