1908-2008 : 100 years of international rugby in Toulouse

In just three hours, Toulouse will play Cardiff in H-Cup... Go, Toulouse, go ! May my Welsh friends forgive me, but I really hope that Stade Toulousain will win the H-Cup this year and crush the Blues this afternoon like they crushed Leicester and East Midlands 100 years ago !

As I was searching among my pictures of Toulouse, I suddenly realized that the very first international game played by newly formed Stade Toulousain (1907), was played in April 1908... exactly 100 years ago... in the newly built "Stade des Ponts Jumeaux" (inaugurated in Nov.1907).

That day, Toulouse won 23-12 and scored no less than 7 tries... good omen !

Caption reads (in French) : un match Anglais aux "Ponts Jumeaux" entre l'East Midlands Union et le Stade Toulousain - une sortie de mélée aux Toulousains.

(hi res picture available here on Flickr)

Go ! Toulouse, Go !

Edit : Stade Toulousain b Cardiff 41 - 17 !  next round are London Irish... April 26. @ Twickenham... my bet on Toulouse again...

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Comments

[Pierre-Olivier Carles]

My bet on Toulouse too...for two reasons : they were blasting yesterday and I live in Toulouse :-)