Gaston Lane

{{short description|French rugby union player}}

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| birth_place = Paris, France

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| death_place =Lironville, France

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Gaston Lane (31 January 1883 – 23 September 1914) was a French rugby union player. He was 1 m 68 cm tall and weighed 68 kg.

He played right wing three quarter (later centre) for Racing club de France and for the French national team; at first he also played for AS Bois-Colombes then for the Paris Cosmopolitan Club.

He played in the first French international and was capped ten times, along with Marcel Communeau.

He was a tradesman. He was killed on the front in Moselle at the start of the First World War.

He was an excellent club rugby player, and also occasionally contributed articles to Sporting.

Career

= Club =

= International =

Gaston Lane was first selected for the French national team for the 1 January 1906 match against the All-Blacks, the first French Test match.

Highlights

= Club =

  • Second place in French national rugby championship, 1912 with Racing club de France, and captain, alongside Géo André and Pierre Failliot, who also played three quarters.

= International =

  • 16 caps.
  • 1 try (3 points).
  • Caps by year: 2 in 1906, 1 in 1907, 2 in 1908, 3 in 1909, 2 in 1910, 2 in 1911, 3 in 1912, 1 in 1913.
  • Participated in the first official France match against the All Blacks in their first European tour.
  • Captain five times (in 1906, 1910, 1912 & 1913), and captain of the French first XV in the first Five Nations Championship, against Wales at Swansea in 1910 (the second was Marcel Communeau in the next match).
  • He was in 4 seasons of the Five Nations Championship in the pre-war period.
  • First victory against a Home Nations team, Scotland, in the second French Five Nations Championship, in 1911.

References

  • Godwin, Terry Complete Who's Who of International Rugby (Cassell, 1987, {{ISBN|0-7137-1838-2}})