RUGBY CHAMPIONSHIP
FRANCE DEFEATS ENGLAND. A DESPERATE STRUGGLE. (Received 1 p.m.) PARIS, April 6. What will probably be the last Anglo-French international Rugby football match for some time, unless France speedily settles her internal squabble, resulted in France, despite a handicap by the absence of several of her foremost players,, triumphing magnificently. The - crowd was the smallest for many years, although it numbered 30,000. England was superior at the start, and secured an early lead, but Prance played as if inspired in the second half. The lead changed five times. England was leading 13 to 10, ten minutes from the end, after which Bailette picked up from the loose and brilliantly scored a drop goal from 40 yards. The kick elevated France to second place in the international championship, which Wales had won. England is t'he winner of the wooden spoon.
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Northern Advocate, 7 April 1931, Page 6
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