Jean Galia
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Born | Ille-sur-Têt, France | 20 March 1905||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 17 January 1949 Toulouse, France | (aged 43)||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Jean Galia (born 20 March 1905 in Ille-sur-Têt, Pyrénées-Orientales, died 17 January 1949 in Toulouse) was a French rugby union and rugby league footballer and champion boxer. He is credited with establishing the sport of rugby league in France in 1934,[2] presenting it also through the expression: jeu à treize.
Playing in the forwards, Galia made his international debut for the France national rugby union team in a 1927 test against England in Paris. After 20 internationals, He later played in France's first ever rugby league international, also against England in Paris, on 15 April 1934 and was captain of the France national rugby league team in its early days. Following France's tour of Northern England, Galia arranged a series of demonstration matches around France.[3]
The Courtney Goodwill Trophy, international rugby league's first, was presented for the first time in 1936 and depicted Galia, along with other pioneering greats of the code, James Lomas (Britain), Albert Baskiville (New Zealand) and Dally Messenger (Australia).[4]
In 1988 Galia was inducted into the Rugby League Hall of Fame.
References
- ^ Rugby League Project
- ^ Collins, Tony (2009). A Social History of English Rugby Union. Taylor & Francis. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-415-47660-7. ISBN 0-415-47660-7.
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(help) - ^ Dine, Philip (2001). French rugby football: a cultural history. Berg Publishers. p. 86. ISBN 978-1-85973-327-1. ISBN 1-85973-327-1.
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(help) - ^ “League Legends: fast facts about rugby league” at nsm.org.au
External links
- Jean Galia at scrum.com
- Jean Galia's introduction of the May 1934 Yorkshire's tour in France : Jean Galia's parent of the expression jeu à treize or Game of thirteen
- History of rugby league at napit.co.uk
- History of Rugby football in France at independent.co.uk
- 1905 births
- 1949 deaths
- People from Pyrénées-Orientales
- French rugby union players
- French rugby league players
- Dual-code rugby internationals
- French rugby league coaches
- Villeneuve Leopards players
- France international rugby union players
- France national rugby league team players
- French male boxers
- Rugby league second-rows