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Gaston Lane
Gaston Lane (31 January 1883 – 23 September 1914) was a French rugby union player. He was 1 m 68 cm tall and weighed 68 kg. He played right wing three quarter (later centre) for Racing club de France and for the French national team; at first he also played for AS Bois-Colombes then for the Paris Cosmopolitan Club. He played in the first French international and was capped ten times, along with Marcel Communeau. He was a tradesman. He was killed on the front in Moselle at the start of the First World War. He was an excellent club rugby player, and also occasionally contributed articles to Sporting.
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Gaston Lane was first selected for the French national team for the 1 January 1906 match against the All-Blacks, the first French Test match.
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