Élie Brousse
France international rugby league footballer (1921–2019)
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Élie Brousse (28 August 1921 – 2 July 2019) was a French rugby league player for Roanne, Marseille and Lyon Villeurbanne in the French rugby league championship competition. His position of choice was as a second-row.[2][3]
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| Born | 28 August 1921 Bages, Aude, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 2 July 2019 (aged 97) Roanne, France | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Height | 187 cm (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 98 kg (216 lb; 15 st 6 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Second-row | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Brousse featured in the 1951 French rugby league tour of Australia and New Zealand, Les Chanticleers first such tour, during which they lost only 4 of their 28 games.[4] Before the tour, Brousse had the nickname "The Good Giant" due to his large physique and good sportsmanship,[5] afterwards he became known as the "Tiger of Sydney".[6]
In 2018, Brousse was inducted into the Gloire du sport (France National Sports Hall of Fame).[7]
