1924 United States rugby union tour of England and France

The 1924 United States rugby union tour of England and France was a series of five matches played by the United States in England and France during April and May 1924. The matches in England were warm-up matches for the 1924 Olympic Games. The United States was the defending Olympic champions and successfully defended their title despite fielding a team made up mainly of sportsmen from other sports. In the intervening years, between the 1920 and 1924 Olympic Games, France had played twenty-one internationals and the United States none.^[1]^[2]

Touring party

^[1]

Full backs

Charles Doe (Stanford University)

Three-quarters

Norman Cleaveland (Stanford University)
George Dixon (University of California)
Richard Hyland (Stanford University)
William Rogers (Stanford University)
Edward Turkington (Lowell High School) (Olympic Club)

Half-backs

Robert Devereux (Stanford University)
Rudy Scholz (Santa Clara University)

Forwards

Philip Clark (Stanford University)
Linn Farrish (Stanford University)
Dudley DeGroot (Stanford University)
Edward Graff (University of California)
Caesar Mannelli (Santa Clara University)
John O'Neill (Santa Clara University)
John Patick (Stanford University)
Colby Slater (University of California), (Davis Farm), (Olympic Club)
Norman Slater (Berkeley High School)
Alan Valentine (Swarthmore College), (Oxford University)

Undisclosed position

John Cashel (Palo Alto)
Hugh Cunningham (Santa Clara University)
Joseph Hunter (San Mateo High), (Beliston)
William Muldoon (Santa Clara University)
Alan Williams (Cornell University), (Olympic Club)

Fixtures

Tour of England

Date	Venue	Home	Score	Away
21 April 1924	The Rectory, Devonport	Devonport Services RFC	3–25	United States
April 1924	Rectory Field, Blackheath, London	Blackheath	13–9	United States
April 1924	Twickenham Stadium, London	Harlequins	21–11	United States

1924 Olympic Tournament

Date	Venue	Team	Score	Team
11 May 1924	Colombes Stadium, Paris	Romania	0–37	United States
18 May 1924	Colombes Stadium, Paris	France	3–17	United States

References

^ ^a ^b Gallagher, Brendan (15 May 2016). "Olympic spirit was forgotten amid violence and acrimony". The RugbyPaper. No. 400. pp. 32–3.
^ CalBear81. "1924 Rugby: A Wild Olympic Rematch". Retrieved 18 May 2016.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)

United States national rugby union team

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Players

Competitions and trophies

Related teams

Titles

Olympics	1920 1924

Matches

By opponent	Canada France Ireland
World Cup qualifiers	1991

Tours

Australia	1990 1999
Europe	1924 1977 1987 1997 1998 1999 2000 2004
Japan	1985 1990 2008

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Argentina	1978 1990 1999 2000 2006 2022
Australia	1908–09 1927–28 (Waratahs) 1947–48 1957–58 1966–67 1973 1975–76 1981–82 1984 1988 1997 1998 2000 2001 2002 2004 2005 2008 2009 2013
New Zealand	1905 1924–25 1935–36 1953–54 1963–64 1967 1972–73 1974 (no test) 1978 1979 1983 1993 1997 2002 2005 2006 2008
South Africa	1906–07 1912–13 1931–32 1951–52 1960–61 1969–70 1992 1996 ("A" team) 1997 1998 2000 2001 2002 2004 2006 2008
Romania	1984–85
Japan	1973 (no test) 1976 (no test) 1986
Fiji	1982 (no test) 1985 (no test) 1989
Samoa	1989 (no test) 1995 1996 (no test) 2005
Tonga	1997 (no test)
Pacific Islanders	2008
Canada	1979 (no test) 1983 (no test) 1994 1999 2004
United States	1924 (no test) 1977 (no test) 1999
Maori All Blacks	1888–89 1926–27

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Argentina	1975 1982 1988 1992 1998 2004 2006 2008 2021
Australia	1927–28 (Waratahs) 1947–48 1957–58 1966–67 1971 1976 1983 1989 1993 1998 2000 2001 2004 2005 2008
Canada	1979 1994 2002 2005
Fiji	1964 1989 no test 1990 2001
Ireland	1988
Japan	1973 2000
Maori All Blacks	1926–27
New Zealand	1905 1924–25 1953–54 1963–64 1972–73 1977 1986 1981 1990 1995 2000 2002 2004 2006
Pacific Islanders	2008
Samoa	1989 (no test)
South Africa	1906–07 1912–13 1951–52 1960–61 1992 1996 1997 2001 2002 2005
Tonga	2005
USA	1924 Olympic Games