Lord Derby Cup
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The Lord Derby Cup (French: Trophée Lord Derby) is the major knock-out competition for French rugby league clubs.
The competition started in 1935. The trophy was presented to the French federation by Edward Stanley, 17th Earl of Derby, for whom it is named . Derby was the honoury president of the Rugby Football League, and had also previously served as the British ambassador in Paris.
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[edit] List of champions
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1. - 28th of April 1940 in Bordeaux: semi final Basque Coast XIII: 14 v 13 Catalan: 5,
- 12th of May 1940 (reason: unavailability ground on 5th of May 1940) in Toulouse: semi final Pau XIII v AS Carcassonne: game not played because 10th of may 1940 the invasion of the Belgian, Luxembourgian and Dutch territories by the German armies, the German first air machine-gunnings and air bombardments on departments of the northeast of France and, events which followed on 12th of May 1940 in the French Ardennes,
- 19th of May 1940 in … : no final Basque Coast XIII v Pau XIII or AS Carcassonne, i.e.: season 1939-1940: Lord Derby Cup "Not awarded for acts of war" (above mentionned).
2. The final between AS Carcassonne and XIII Catalan was cancelled because of the fight at the championship final the previous week.
[edit] Books
- Le Rugby à XIII le plus français du monde -1934 to 1996- by Louis Bonnery,
- the Forbidden game by Mike Rylance.
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