Tarbes the Pyrenees Rugby

|- | colspan=" 2" style=" text-align: center; padding: 0.5em; " bgcolor=" white" | |- | Club founded in | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| 2000 |- | preceding Names | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| 1901 - 2000 Stadoceste tarbais |- | Colors | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| Red and white |- | Stage | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| Stage Maurice Trélut
(15 000 places) |- | Seat | bgcolor=#EEEEEE| Avenue Pierre de Coubertin
65000 Tarbes |} The Tarbes the Pyrenees Rugby is a club of Rugby to XV French taking part in the Pro D2. In the past Stadoceste tarbais , name under which he is crowned twice champion of France, he takes the name of Tarbes the Pyrenees Rugby in August 2000 while amalgamating with the CA Lannemezan. This fusion is of short duration since the CAL takes again its autonomy in 2003.

History

Stadoceste tarbais

Stadoceste tarbais was founded in January 1902 following the fusion of two clubs of the city, the “Tarbais Stage” (founded on October 4th, 1901), where Rugby was practiced, and the “Ceste”, where one devoted oneself to boxing and the fencing. The first name of the club was of aillor the “Ceste Stage” and it is following an error of pronunciation of a soldier of the regiment of the hussards stationed with Tarbes that the strange one and singular name “Stadoceste” appeared.

Its fish pond was during very a long time the Arsenal, the munitions factory. This club was directed a long time by easy middle-class men and in particular by Jules Soulé who went until wasting his fortune there! This one, Toulousain of birth was come to Tarbes in 1907 following the fusion which will give rise to the Stade Toulousain. There will remain president until his death in 1945 with old 65 years.

The club will gain two championships in 1920 and 1973 and will play three finales, of which the last in 1988, lost vis-a-vis Agen.

Fusion with CA Lannemezan

But at the end of the Nineties, the passage to the professionalism of French Rugby poses a serious problem with the clubs of Bigorre, and in particular for Stadoceste which is in fall in the depths of the championships amateurs.

Under the impulse of the general advice of the Hautes-Pyrénées which, in order not to disperse his resources, wishes to see to be established only one large club in Bigorre, the project to create a departmental club gathering the forces of two clubs or more is born. The project accelerates when the CA Lannemezan reaches Pro 2 in 2000, because its finances do not enable him to try the professional adventure. The National league of Rugby would indeed undoubtedly block the rise. Fusion with Tarbes, distant of 35 km, is put on the table. Tarbais are enthusiastic, Lannemezanais much less, so much so that the board of directors of the club rejects to 73% the in May 2000 project. FC Doors and the Stade bagnérais, also contacted, refuse association, fearing to see their identity dissolving definitively in an entity being likely to be dominated by the club of the prefecture, with Tarbes.

But the general advice of the Hautes-Pyrénées makes pressure to cause the regrouping, which would avoid to him dispersing its support. He finds a partisan of fusion in the president of the CAL, Jacques Tarrène, head of undertaking, principal sponsor of funds of the club, persuaded that Lannemezan, 6.000 inhabitants, could never aim higher without it. In spite of a great tension within the club, Lannemezan is maintained as a Pro 2, provided that it amalgamates with the “Stado”.

August 3rd, 2000 is signed, in Tarbes, the protocol of fusion between the two clubs. A SEMOS (company of mixed economy with sporting object) is created, under the name of LT65 (Lannemezan Tarbes Hautes-Pyrénées). The CAL, Stado, as well as the general advice and the towns of Tarbes and Lannemezan enter the capital, just like several private companies. President Jacques Tarrène known as to have followed the example of the basketball players of the Dash Inhabitant of Béarn Pau-Orthez who had left the small town of Orthez for Pau, where it found the means of his ambitions.

The problem of the shirt is quickly regulated, the two teams playing in red and white. But as feared it Lannemezanais, all the matches take place with Tarbes and in spite of beautiful multitudes (approximately 4.000 spectators of average), the CAL feels marginalized, as the denomination of the club as from 2002 shows it: TPR (Tarbes the Pyrenees Rugby).

“We are the largest cuckolds of professional Rugby. While amalgamating, the town of 6000 inhabitants lost his heart. " The stage was not used any more for nothing; nobody any more played there, all had been transferred to Tarbes, even the school of Rugby. Sunday, all had died, the coffees remained closed. ” (Jean-Louis Fourcade, president of the CAL) This is why in 2003, Lannemezanais leave the TPR and recreate the team first CAL, which sets out again into Federal 3 and goes up in Fédérale 1 in 2005.

The president of the TPR further thinks and considers a fusion with the Section paloise which pourait to make it possible to be competitive in the Top 14.

Prize list

Champion of France (Shield of Brennus): 1920, 1973

Finalist in: 1914, 1951, 1988

Cut of the Hope: 1919

Finalist of the Coupe de France: 1951

Champion of the Pyrenees: 1910
Champion of Armanac-Bigorre: 1911, 1912, 1913, 1920

The finales of Stadoceste tarbais

Championship of France

Former famous players and emblematic figures

In Stadoceste tarbais

In Tarbes the Pyrenees Rugby

Hake Charvis

Manpower 2007-08

List trainers

Philippe Carbonneau & Philippe Torossian

Successive presidents

Jacques Tarenne

See too

CA Lannemezan

External bonds and documents

Official site of the club
Site on Stadoceste tarbais
Humanity
Article of the Team reproduces on rougeetblanc.net, site of the supporters TPR

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