Ogden Standard-Examiner | 1924-05-19 | Page 7 | U. S. Rugby Team Defeats French

U S RUGBY TEAM DEFEATS FRENCH PARIS May lay The UP 19 PI The and Stripes today floated over the Colombes Colombe stadium to signalize the Iho vIctory of ot the American Rugby team tam In the first of ot the 1914 Ol gam garnet to b be staged there thre The Tho team earn from the state vanquished the tho favored French combination 17 to 3 In Ina Ina Ina a game same mal ked b Intense pIa play and marred only bv by I the hp ot of the partisan crowd cro d which hiss hiss- hissed hissed ed Cd the pia r and patch patch- patched Batch Batched ed cd the thC raising of ot the American flag In Ia a cold caM silence broken only by boos and catcalls catcall Americans Americana among the audIence ot of 30 could not ce- ce es escape cape embroilment and there ere al personal encounters encounter In the stands stand in one ot of o t two IsO 0 cit cit zens zens of ot the United States were knocked out and carried curled unconscious unconscious from tram the scene The Th Jo I 1 rench sporting liters w liters toda all nil agreed that the visitors won on cc on on their merits ns as B football pla pia placers era ero The Tho newspaper ne experts are alt 11 0 Ith disgust and morti moril mortification at the display of cot poor I sportsmanship and ill feeling ill among the Ignorant section of ot the spectators which they term entirely d and un- un uncalled un uncalled called tor for Auto I points out I that bat the crowd r cd an tn American pia vel tor for doing g something h hen don done by i 1 Fr five minutes liter lter wa was greeted with cheers The foreigners present resent It Bays SIlS were given the the 1 lo of nf ofa ofa a which does dos not lIOt 1 1 ow how to lose oo 00 00 House numbers tha Iha mate the tho SiPI steps after arter dark duk have Ite been pat