Marie Jean-Baptiste Joseph Anduran, better known as Joé Anduran or Joe Anduran, was a French
rugby union player. He was born on 24 April 1882 in
Bayonne
Bayonne (; eu, Baiona ; oc, label= Gascon, Baiona ; es, Bayona) is a city in Southwestern France near the Spanish border. It is a commune and one of two subprefectures in the Pyrénées-Atlantiques department, in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine re ...
, and died at
Bois-Bernard in the
Pas-de-Calais
Pas-de-Calais (, " strait of Calais"; pcd, Pas-Calés; also nl, Nauw van Kales) is a department in northern France named after the French designation of the Strait of Dover, which it borders. It has the most communes of all the departments ...
on 2 October 1914, during the
First World War.
He was 1.74 m tall and weighed 75 kg.
[Joseph Anduran player profile]
Scrum.com He usually played hooker, with SCUF (
Sporting club universitaire de France); after 1908 he served as section secretary, he won the Paris Championship as captain of their second team in 1912, and in 1913 he was in the first team that lost in the final of the national championship.
[Joe Anduran]
at the SCUF history website.
A soldier with the French infantry, he was killed in 1914, the first year of World War I, leaving behind two children, Jacqueline, who was six years old and Jean, who was five months old.
was admitted into the
Five Nations Championship for the first time in 1910.
The French side had only 14 players when the players got together the day before the match at the
Gare Saint-Lazare
The Gare Saint-Lazare (English: St Lazarus station), officially Paris-Saint-Lazare, is one of the six large mainline railway station termini in Paris, France. It serves train services toward Normandy, northwest of Paris, along the Paris–Le Hav ...
. The team manager,
Charles Brennus, engaged the Parisian player Anduran on short notice to fill out the team, enabling them to play their first match in the tournament with a complete squad.
Joe Anduran : international contre un… Corot
, at rugby-nomades.qc.ca He was relatively easy to find, because he was an art dealer and was opening a show that day.[
]
Career
Club
* SCUF
International
* Joe Anduran played in just one international match, as hooker against Wales in the 1910 Five Nations Championship
The 1910 Five Nations Championship was the first series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship following the inclusion of France into the Home Nations Championship. Including the previous Home Nations Championships, this was the twenty-eigh ...
.
Highlights
* French Rugby League Championship finalists in 1911 and 1913.
External links
Player file
at ffr.fr
Notes
* Godwin, Terry ''Complete Who's Who of International Rugby'' (Cassell, 1987, )
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French military personnel killed in World War I
France international rugby union players
French rugby union players
1882 births
Sportspeople from Bayonne
Rugby union players from Nouvelle-Aquitaine
1914 deaths
Rugby union hookers