Gaston Peltier
{{short description|French footballer}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Gaston Peltier
| image = Gaston Peltier - France football 1900 (cropped).jpg
| image_size = 200px
| alt =
| caption = Peltier in 1900
| fullname = Gaston Peltier
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1877|08|02|df=y}}
| birth_place = Rouen, France
| death_date =
| death_place = Bayonne, France
| height =
| position = Forward
| youthyears1 =
| youthclubs1 =
| years1 = 1895–1903 | clubs1 = Club Français | caps1 = | goals1 =
| years2 = 1900 | clubs2 = Racing Club de France | caps2 = | goals2 =
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| totalgoals =
| nationalyears1 = 1900
| nationalteam1 = France (Olympic)
| nationalcaps1 = 1
| nationalgoals1 = 2
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalSport | Men's football}}
{{MedalCountry|{{FRA}}}}
{{Medal|Comp|Football at the Summer Olympics}}
{{MedalSilver | 1900 Paris | Team Competition}}
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Gaston Peltier (2 August 1877 – unknown) was a French footballer who played as a Forward and who competed in the football tournament at the 1900 Olympic Games in Paris, winning a silver medal as a member of the USFSA Olympic team representing France, which was primarily made up of Club Français players.{{cite web |url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/25142 |title=Gaston Peltier |work=Olympedia |accessdate=12 November 2024 |archive-date=2 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240502222643/http://www.olympedia.org/athletes/25142 |url-status=live }}{{cite web |url=https://www.eurosport.com/football/gaston-peltier_prs317826/person.shtml |title=Gaston Peltier - Player profile - Football |website=www.eurosport.com |accessdate=12 November 2024 }}
Club career
=Early career=
File:Le Club français, champion de France de football en 1896.jpg
In the semifinals of the inaugural USFSA championship between Club Français and The White Rovers, Peltier served as a linesman under referee Georges Caizac as Rovers won 1–0.{{Cite web |url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxkpjd&view=1up&seq=409 |title=White Rovers contre Club Français |trans-title=White Rovers against Club Français |language=fr |website=babel.hathitrust.org/ |date=28 April 1894 |accessdate=22 November 2024 |archive-date=25 November 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221125001429/https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=hvd.hxkpjd&view=1up&seq=409 |url-status=live }} Together with Lucien Huteau, Marcel Lambert, Georges Garnier, and captain Eugène Fraysse, Peltier was a starter in the Club Français team that won the 1896 USFSA Football Championship, doing so without losing a single match.{{Cite book |last1=Denaunay |first1=Stéphane |last2=De Ryswick |first2=Jacques |last3=Cornu |first3=Jean |last4=Vermand |first4=Dominique |title=100 ans de football en France |trans-title=100 years of football in France |language=fr |date=July 1989 |publisher=Atlas |isbn=978-27312136-5-2 |location=Paris |page=27 }}
On 25 April 1897, Peltier started in the final of the inaugural Coupe Manier against the newly crowded champions of France Standard AC, helping his side to a 4–3 win after extra-time.{{Cite web |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k83316135/f3.item.r=pelletier.zoom |title=Coupe de France |trans-title=French Cup |language=fr |website=gallica.bnf.fr |publisher=Tous les sports |page=3 |date=26 April 1897 |access-date=6 February 2025 }} A few months later, on 26 December, he started in the very first football match in the history of the Parc des Princes in front of 500 spectators, in which Club Français was defeated 1–3 by the English Ramblers.{{Cite web |url=https://www.retronews.fr/journal/journal-des-sports/27-decembre-1897/4054/5388398/1 |title=Ramblers contre Club Français |trans-title=Ramblers against Club Français |language=fr |website=www.retronews.fr |publisher=Le Journal des sports |page=1 |date=27 December 1897 |accessdate=12 November 2024 |archive-date=13 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241113002504/https://www.retronews.fr/journal/journal-des-sports/27-decembre-1897/4054/5388398/1 |url-status=live }} On 28 March 1898, Peltier started in the 1898 Coupe Manier final at the Vélodrome de Vincennes, helping his side to a 10–0 win over Paris Star.{{Cite web |url=https://www.retronews.fr/journal/journal-des-sports/28-mars-1898/4054/5388478/2 |title=La Coupe Manier |language=fr |website=www.retronews.fr |publisher=Le Journal des sports |page=2 |date=28 March 1898 |accessdate=12 November 2024 |archive-date=12 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241112220919/https://www.retronews.fr/journal/journal-des-sports/28-mars-1898/4054/5388478/2 |url-status=live }} In the following week, on 3 April, he started in the final of the 1898 USFSA Football Championship against Standard AC at Courbevoie, scoring the opening goal in an eventual 2–3 loss.{{Cite web |url=https://www.retronews.fr/journal/journal-des-sports/4-avril-1898/4054/5388448/2 |title=Le Championnat de France - Victoirie du Standard |trans-title=The French Championship - Victory of Standard |language=fr |website=www.retronews.fr |publisher=Le Journal des sports |page=2 |date=4 April 1898 |accessdate=12 November 2024 |archive-date=13 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241113000549/https://www.retronews.fr/journal/journal-des-sports/4-avril-1898/4054/5388448/2 |url-status=live }}
=National dominance=
In the following year, on 16 April 1899, he started in the play-off match against Standard AC to decide the 1898–99 USFSA Paris championship, scoring his side's third goal in a 3–2 win.{{Cite web |url=https://www.retronews.fr/journal/journal-des-sports/17-avril-1899/4054/5388582/2 |title=Championnat de Paris - Club Français contre Standard Athletic Club |trans-title=Paris Championship - Club Français against Standard Athletic Club |language=fr |website=www.retronews.fr |publisher=Le Journal des sports |page=2 |date=17 April 1899 |accessdate=12 November 2024 |archive-date=13 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241113054821/https://www.retronews.fr/journal/journal-des-sports/17-avril-1899/4054/5388582/2 |url-status=live }} This victory qualified the club to the 1899 USFSA national championship, in which Club Français withdrew from the final before facing Le Havre AC.{{cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tablesf/fran-prewwi.html#1899 |title=1898-99 season in France |publisher=RSSSF |date=29 August 2024 |access-date=12 November 2024 |archive-date=5 February 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230205152228/https://www.rsssf.org/tablesf/fran-prewwi.html#1899 |url-status=live }} Later that year, on 23 October, Peltier started in the final of the 1899 Coupe Manier at Suresnes, scoring a first-half goal to help his side to a 6–0 win over RC Roubaix.{{Cite web |url=https://www.retronews.fr/journal/journal-des-sports/23-octobre-1899/4054/5389432/2 |title=La Coupe Manier |language=fr |website=www.retronews.fr |publisher=Le Journal des sports |page=2 |date=23 October 1899 |accessdate=12 November 2024 |archive-date=24 May 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240524001450/https://www.retronews.fr/journal/journal-des-sports/23-octobre-1899/4054/5389432/2 |url-status=live }}
File:Le Club Français, champion de Paris de football en 1899.jpg
Together with Lambert, Garnier, and Fernand Canelle, Peltier was a member of the Club Français team that won the 1899–1900 USFSA Paris championship.{{Cite web |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k96060553/f9.image.r=peltier.zoom |title=Les grandes équipes de football |trans-title=The Great Football Teams |language=fr |website=gallica.bnf.fr |publisher=La Vie au grand air |page=23 |date=14 January 1900 |access-date=12 January 2025 }} On 29 April 1900, Peltier started in the 1900 Challenge International du Nord final in Tourcoing, which ended in a 2–3 loss to Le Havre AC.{{Cite web |url=https://www.retronews.fr/journal/journal-des-sports/30-avril-1900/4054/5389626/3 |title=Le Challenge du Nord - Victoire des Havrais |trans-title=The Challenge of the North - Victory of Le Havre |language=fr |website=www.retronews.fr |publisher=Le Journal des sports |page=3 |date=30 April 1900 |accessdate=12 November 2024 }} In the following week, on 6 May, he started in the 1900 USFSA Football Championship final against Le Havre AC, which ended in a 0–1 loss; he had a good chance to equalize in the second half, but slipped and hit the post, and then he had three goals ruled offside, although the third was perfectly legal.{{Cite web |url=https://www.retronews.fr/journal/journal-des-sports/7-mai-1900/4054/5389600/2 |title=Championnat de France - Club Français (1) contre La Havre AC (1) |trans-title=French Championship - Club Français (1) against La Havre AC (1) |language=fr |website=www.retronews.fr |publisher=Le Journal des sports |page=2 |date=7 May 1900 |accessdate=12 November 2024 |archive-date=13 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241113004921/https://www.retronews.fr/journal/journal-des-sports/7-mai-1900/4054/5389600/2 |url-status=live }} Later that year, on 23 December, Peltier started in the 1900 Coupe Manier final against UA I arrondissement, in which Français played the entire first half with 10 men because of the absence of Laisné.{{Cite web |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4624350z/f3.item.zoom |title=La Coupe Manier |language=fr |website=gallica.bnf.fr |publisher=L'Auto |date=24 December 1900 |accessdate=12 November 2024 |archive-date=13 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241113190101/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4624350z/f3.item.zoom |url-status=live }} At half-time, however, Peltier managed to discover a former CF player among the many spectators, Ernest Weber, thus playing with 11 men in the second half, in which he scored the only goal of the match to seal a 1–0 victory. The French newspaper L'Auto described this goal as Peltier dribbling "as only he knows how".
=Later career=
Peltier played as a striker for Club Français and then Racing Club de France.{{Harvsp|Gachet|2023|p=89}} On 4 January 1903, Peltier started in the final of the 1902 Coupe Manier at Le Vésinet, scoring once and assisting an own goal to help his side to a 7–0 win over Olympique Lillois.{{cite web |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k46247273/f5.item.zoom |title=Coupe Manier - Le Club Français vainqueur dans la finale |trans-title=Manier Cup - The French Club wins in the final |language=fr |website=gallica.bnf.fr |publisher=L'Auto |date=5 January 1903 |accessdate=12 November 2024 |archive-date=13 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241113194002/https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k46247273/f5.item.zoom |url-status=live }} On 15 March 1903, he started in the final of the 1903 Coupe Dewar against United SC, but despite scoring twice, CF still lost 3–4.{{cite web |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4624797r/f7.item.r=peltier.zoom |title=Coupe Dewar finale |trans-title=Coupe Dewar final |language=fr |website=gallica.bnf.fr |publisher=L'Auto |page=7 |date=16 March 1903 |accessdate=12 November 2024 }}
On 1 April 1907, the former players of Club Français, who had been retired for years, came together to play a match for the so-called Vieilles Gloires ("Old Glories"), but the 30-year-old Peltier was injured, so he refused to attend the match "because he would have been upset not to be able to take part in it".{{cite web |url=https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k4623364p/f7.image.r=peilier.zoom |title=Endons à César... |trans-title=Let us give credit to Caesar... |language=fr |website=gallica.bnf.fr |publisher=L'Auto |page=7 |date=5 April 1907 |access-date=12 January 2025 }}
International career
The French champions in 1899 and 1900, Havre AC, were not willing to participate, so the USFSA asked for the runners-up Club Français to participate, possibly to also attract more spectators and keep down expenses, and the three guest players were Peltier, Eugène Fraysse, and René Ressejac-Duparc of Racing Club de France.{{cite web |url=http://www.iffhs.de/?28d6edaca29d815685fdcdc3bfcdc0aec605 |title=1900 - Paris |website=www.iffhs.de |accessdate=12 November 2024 |archive-date=22 February 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222235303/http://www.iffhs.de/?28d6edaca29d815685fdcdc3bfcdc0aec605 |url-status=bot: unknown }} Peltier was listed as a forward for the USFSA team at the 1900 Olympic Games.{{cite web |url=https://www.fff.fr/article/12601-paris-1900-en-sport-de-demonstration.html |title=Paris 1900, en sport de démonstration |trans-title=Paris 1900, in demonstration sport |language=fr |website=www.fff.fr |date=10 July 2024 |accessdate=12 November 2024 |archive-date=27 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240727035341/https://www.fff.fr/article/12601-paris-1900-en-sport-de-demonstration.html |url-status=live }}
Peltier was not selected for the opening match against Upton Park on 20 September, which ended in a humiliating 0–4 loss, so he was then picked up for the second match three days later, scoring twice to help his side to a 6–2 victory over Belgium, which was mostly made up of students from the French-speaking Université libre de Bruxelles.{{cite web |url=https://www.rsssf.org/tableso/ol1900f.html |title=Games of the II. Olympiad |publisher=RSSSF |date=12 May 2022 |access-date=12 November 2024 |archive-date=9 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220709122416/https://www.rsssf.org/tableso/ol1900f.html |url-status=live }} The French team came second and Peltier was thus awarded with a silver medal. With two goals, Peltier was the joint top scorer of the tournament alongside Britain's John Nicholas.{{cite web |url=https://footballwhispers.com/blog/list-of-olympic-football-winners/ |title=Complete list of Olympic football winners |website=footballwhispers.com |accessdate=12 November 2024 |archive-date=3 August 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240803062717/https://footballwhispers.com/blog/list-of-olympic-football-winners/ |url-status=live }}
Later life and death
Peltier fought in the First World War, during which he was poisoned by a gas shell; he was decorated with the Croix de guerre (1914–1918).
Honours
=Club=
;Club Français
- USFSA Paris Championship:
- Champions (2): 1898–99 and 1899–1900
- USFSA Football Championship:
- Champions (1): 1896
- Runner-up (3): 1898, 1899 and 1900
- Coupe Manier:
- Champions (4): 1898, 1899, 1900, and 1902
- Challenge International du Nord:
- Runner-up (1): 1900
- Coupe Dewar:
- Runner-up (1): 1903
=International=
- Summer Olympics:
- Silver medal (1): 1900
Bibliography
- {{Cite book |last=Gachet |first=Stéphane |author-link=Stéphane Gachet |title=JO d'été: tous les médaillés français de 1896 à nos jours |trans-title=Summer Olympics: all the French medalists from 1896 to the present day |language=fr |date=2023 |publisher=Talent Sport |isbn=9782378153427 |location=Paris }}
References
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External links
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{{Summer Olympics football tournament top scorers}}
{{France football squad 1900 Summer Olympics}}
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