French Rugby Football The Rugby Football Union announced on Monday
that no further matches with French clubs could be played until the control and conduct of the game in France had been placed on a satisfactory basis. The decision, coming on the morrow of the Wales v. France match, in which the French team was obviously unrepre- sentative, will not surprise those who know what troubles have split the French Rugby Federation. The Rugby Union is acting in what it feels to be the best interests of the game, in -France as in, this country. The French Federation has -for the time being -lost control, as twelve prominent French- clubs have seceded.- It has still to check the rough play that is too common in club matches, as well as a certain veiled professionalism, and the Rugby Union is really co-operating with it. The Rugby Union doubtless hopes, as we must all hope, that-French-Rugby football will soon be reorganized and purified, and that the international matches which have -excited so much interest will- be •resumed.
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