Élie Brousse (28 August 1921 – 2 July 2019) was a French
rugby league
Rugby league football, commonly known as rugby league in English-speaking countries and rugby 13/XIII in non-Anglophone Europe, is a contact sport, full-contact sport played by two teams of thirteen players on a rectangular Rugby league playin ...
player for
Roanne,
Marseille
Marseille (; ; see #Name, below) is a city in southern France, the Prefectures in France, prefecture of the Departments of France, department of Bouches-du-Rhône and of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur Regions of France, region. Situated in the ...
and
Lyon Villeurbanne in the
French rugby league championship competition. His position of choice was as a .
Brousse featured in the
1951 French rugby league tour of Australia and New Zealand
The 1951 French rugby league tour of Australia and New Zealand was the first ever tour of Australasia by any French sports team in history. Puig Aubert captained the France national rugby league team who played 28 matches in total in both Austra ...
, Les Chanticleers first such tour, during which they lost only 4 of their 28 games.
References
1921 births
2019 deaths
France national rugby league team players
French rugby league players
Lyon Villeurbanne XIII players
Marseille XIII players
RC Roanne XIII players
Rugby league second-rows
Rugby league players from Occitania (administrative region)
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