Jean Pambrun (25 December 1929 – 18 July 2006) was a French

rugby league Rugby league football, commonly known as just rugby league and sometimes football, footy, rugby or league, is a full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular field measuring 68 metres (75 yards) wide and 112 ...

player who represented

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in the 1954 World Cup. His usual position was second row. He was born in Mérilheu and died in Cabestany.

Playing career

Pambrun played for

Marseille Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Franc ...

and then, for

XIII Catalan XIII Catalan is a rugby league team from Perpignan in the Pyrénées-Orientales region of southern France. They were founded in 1934, and thus were founding members of the French rugby league championship. In 2000 their senior team merged with n ...

, and made his debut for

in the

1953–54 European Rugby League Championship This was the fourteenth European Championship and was won for the sixth time by England. Results Final standings References European Nations Cup European rugby league championship European rugby league championship The R ...

. He later played in the

1954 Rugby League World Cup The 1954 Rugby League World Cup was rugby league football's first World Cup and was held in France in October–November 1954. Officially known as the "Rugby World Cup", SPARC, 2009: 28 four nations competed in the tournament: Australia, France, ...

. He was capped for France between 1953 and 1957.

References

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