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Thursday, 17 May 1928
End-of-Season Tour Friendly Match

France 1 England 5 [1-3]
 

Match Summary
France Party

England Party

Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes, Paris, Île-de-France
Attendance: 40,000;
Kick-off: 3.05pm DST

France - Marcel Langiller (a good shot from a Brouzes pass 1)
England - David Jack (from a corner 20), George Stephenson (23, 80), Bill Dean (27, high shot over the goalkeeper's head 64)
Results 1919-30

? won the toss, ? kicked-off.

 

Match Summary

Officials

France

Type

England

Referee - Adolf Miesz
Austria

Linesmen - Charles Wreford-Brown, 62 (9 October 1866) and not known.

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France Team

 

Rank:

No official ranking system established;
ELO rating 38th to 41st
Colours: Pale blue shirts and white shorts
Capt: Marcel Domergue Selectors: Chosen by a Selection Committee
France Lineup
  Thépot, Aléxis 21 30 July 1906 G FEC Levallois 6 18 GA
  Canthelou, Jacques 24 29 March 1904 RB FC de Rouen 11 0
  Wallet, Urbain 28 4 July 1899 LB Amiens AC 17 0
  Dauphin, Robert 23 5 February 1905 RH Stade Française 10 0
  Domergue, Marcel 26 16 November 1901 CH Red Star Olympique 19 0
  Villaplane, Alexandre 22 25 December 1905
born in Algeria
LH SC Nîmois 12 0
  Monsallier, Jules 21 23 January 1907 OR Stade Française 1 0
  Brouzes, Juste 34 18 January 1894 IR Red Star Olympique 5 1
  Bardot, Charles 24 7 April 1904
born in Algeria
CF AS de Cannes 4 2
  Pavillard, Henri 22 15 August 1905 IL Stade Française 3 0
Langiller, Marcel 19 2 June 1908 OL CA Paris 6 1

reserves:

René Espanet, Jacques Wild, Augustin Chantrel, Maurice Banide, Edmond Delfour, Georges Ouvray and Blanc.
 
2-3-5 Thépot -
Canthelou, Wallet -
Dauphin, Domergue, Villaplane -
Monsallier, Brouzes, Bardot, Pavillard, Langiller

Averages:

Age 24.0 Appearances/Goals 8.5 0.2

 

England Team

 

Rank:

No official ranking system established;
ELO rating 16th
Colours: The 1923 uniform - White collared jerseys and dark club shorts
Capt: Roy Goodall, second captaincy Selectors:
In charge: Arthur G. Kingscott
The fourteen-man FA International Selection Committee, on Friday, 20 April 1928.
127th match, W 81 - D 25 - L 21 - F 387 - A 138.
England Lineup
  Olney, Benjamin A. 29 22 March 1899 G Aston Villa FC 1 1 GA
  Goodall, F. Roy 25 31 December 1902 RB Huddersfield Town FC 8 0
  Blenkinsop, Ernest 26 20 April 1902 LB The Wednesday FC 1 0
  Edwards, Willis 25 28 April 1903 RH Leeds United AFC 10 0
  Matthews, Vincent 32 15 January 1896 CH Sheffield United FC 1 0
  Green, George H. 27 2 May 1901 LH Sheffield United FC 7 0
  Bruton, John 24 21 November 1903 OR Burnley FC 1 0
Jack, David B.N. 30 3 April 1898 IR Bolton Wanderers FC 3 1
Dean, William R. 21 22 January 1907 CF Everton FC 9 14
Stephenson, George T. 27 3 September 1900 IL Derby County FC 1 2
  Barry, Leonard J. 26 27 October 1901 OL Leicester City FC 1 0

reserves:

George Clifford (Portsmouth FC), Albert Harrison (Nottingham Forest FC) and Jackie Carr (Middlesbrough FC)

team notes:

Ben Olney replaced West Ham United FC's Ted Hufton in goal.
 
2-3-5 Olney -
Goodall, Blenkinsop -
Edwards, Matthews, Green -
Bruton, Jack, Dean, Stephenson, Barry

Averages:

Age 26.5 Appearances/Goals 3.9 1.1

 

    Match Report

PARIS, May 17.--England beat France in the Association football International here to-day by five goals to one, Stephenson scoring three and Dean two. At the interval England led by three goals to one. The Frenchmen attacked straight from the kick-off and a rapid forward movement caught the English defence napping. Langillier gained possession and opened the scoring immediately with a good shot. Having recovered from this early reverse the Englishmen soon settled down and from then onwards they completely outplayed their opponents in all the finer points of the game. Stephenson equalized and midway through the second {first?} half the Huddersfield player put England ahead. Just before the interval Dean increased England's lead.

The English team simply played with the opposition in the second half, during which Stephenson completed the hat-trick and Dean scored his second goal.--Reuter - The Times - Friday 18th May, 1928

IN OTHER NEWS...

It was on 17 May 1928 that police conduct in subjecting 22-year-old Irene Savidge to a five-hour interview without a female officer or legal support being present, and after her case of indecent behaviour in Hyde Park with ex-government minister Sir Leo Money had been dismissed, was debated in the House of Commons. An inquiry was subsequently established which led to changes in the way that female suspects could be interrogated.

Source Notes

Alex Villaplane would go on to become France's first Captain at the World Cup Finals. But more notoriously, he would be caught up in the conflicts of WWII, becoming a leading member of the French Gestapo, eventually being shot as a traitor on 26 December 1944 for heinous crimes against his own people.

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