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'''Maurice Voron''' was a French [[rugby league]] footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Maurice Voron|url=http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/maurice-voron/summary.html|work=rugbyleagueproject.org|publisher=Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson and Bill Bates|accessdate=31 August 2013}}</ref>
'''Maurice Voron''' was a French [[rugby league]] footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s.<ref>{{cite web|title=Maurice Voron|url=http://www.rugbyleagueproject.org/players/maurice-voron/summary.html|work=rugbyleagueproject.org|publisher=Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson and Bill Bates|accessdate=31 August 2013}}</ref>


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Maurice Voron
File:Maurice Voron lors d'un match de coupe du monde.png
Maurice Voron playing as wing
Personal information
Full nameMaurice Joseph Félix Voron
Born(1928-10-12)12 October 1928
Oullins, France
Died19 February 2004(2004-02-19) (aged 75)
Quins, France
Playing information
PositionWing
Club
Years Team Pld T G FG P
Lyon
Representative
Years Team Pld T G FG P
1951–60 France 18 3 0 0 9
1957 Great Britain & France 1 1 0 0 3
1957 Rest of the World 1 0 0 0 0

Maurice Voron was a French rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s and 1960s.[1]

Career

Voron mostly played for Lyon for most of his club career. He had 27 caps for France national rugby league team, from 1951 to 1960, playing at the 1954 and 1957 Rugby League World Cups and touring Australasia.[2][3] A three-quarter, in 1988 he was inducted into the International Rugby League Hall of Fame.

During the 1959–60 Kangaroo tour's French leg, Voron was selected to play in the first of two Tests for France on the wing.

Outside the game, he worked as journalist in Aveyron.

References

  1. ^ "Maurice Voron". rugbyleagueproject.org. Shawn Dollin, Andrew Ferguson and Bill Bates. Retrieved 31 August 2013.
  2. ^ Mouret, Aimé (2011). "Voron, Maurice". Le Who's who du rugby à XIII. Toulouse: Éditions de l'Ixcea. p. 279. ISBN 978-2-84918-118-8.
  3. ^ John Coffey, Bernie Wood (2008). 100 years: Māori rugby league, 1908-2008. Huia Publishers. p. 145. ISBN 9781869693312.