Jean Dop
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Born | 1 May 1924 Toulouse, France | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 1 January 2003 (aged 78) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Playing information | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Scrum-half, Fullback | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jean Dop (1924–2003) was a French professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s. A France international representative scrum-half, he played club football for Marseille XIII.
Dop featured in the 1951 French rugby league tour of Australia and New Zealand, in place of injured scrum-half back Joseph Crespo. It was Les Chanticleers first such tour, but they lost only 4 of its 28 games, with Dop's dashing runs seen as instrumental in France's victory over Australia in the first Test.[1] Also during this tour in a match against South Auckland in New Zealand Dop was struck by a spectator.[2] He later toured with France playing at fullback.[3] In 1988 he was inducted into the International Rugby League Hall of Fame.
References
[edit]- ^ Goodman, Tom (12 June 1951). "Not froth and bubble". The Sydney Morning Herald. Australia: Australian Newspapers. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
- ^ AAP Reuter (10 August 1951). "Dop hit by spectator". The Sydney Morning Herald. Australia: Australian Newspapers. Retrieved 17 April 2010.
- ^ John Coffey, Bernie Wood (2008). 100 years: Māori rugby league, 1908–2008. Huia Publishers. p. 145. ISBN 978-1-86969-331-2.