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31 December 2014
Golly! They never seem to sleep at www.planetrugby.com ! While we is New Zealand are in full summer holiday mode the great website continues on and on! Check out this list of their best moments and numbers from 2014. And thanks again to them.
http://www.planetrugby.com/story/0,25883,16016_9625233,00.html
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It was the Welsh RU's 100th Centennial game. Expectations were high in Cardiff that day for a big home win but Graham Mourie's All Blacks took the cake 23-3!
DARROUY, CHRISTIAN
Mont-de-Marsan and France
40 internationals for France 1957–67
A Mont-de-Marsan wing who scored 23 tries in internationals for his country and who stayed in the French team for 10 years. Captain of his country in 1967, taking over from fellow club man Michel Crauste, Darrouy led the team to a Five Nations championship win and was so pleased he sent a famous telegram to President de Gaulle containing just two words – ‘Mission accomplished.’
He was once described as a ‘greyhound’ wing in the style of Adolphe Jaureguy, a star French player in the 1920s.
Darrouy was captain on his last tour, to South Africa in 1967, one of the few wingers to lead any international team on a tour. This was France’s only four-test series: his team lost the first two games but surprised with a win in the third and a draw in the fourth.
At the time of his retirement he was France’s highest try-scorer in internationals and had also beaten Jean Dupuy’s record as France’s most-capped wing.
His best performance in an international came when he scored three tries against Ireland at Lansdowne Road in 1964. He also had the satisfaction of sprinting nearly 50 metres to score the winning try against South Africa in Springs in the only test of France’s 1964 tour.
When Ireland played Australia in Dublin in 1958 what coloured jerseys did each team wear?
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7 January 2015 (11 years ago)
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Nice tribute to Jack Hazlett, Keith. I enjoyed reading your obituary and I appreciate that you write obituaries for those All Blacks that have moved on.