Vintage French photograph of Rugby Union players from the Lyon Olympique team in action; 1905. Le LOU, as it is traditionally known, is one of the oldest sports clubs in France and among the first outside Paris to have set up a rugby section. The club's original name was Racing Club, the result of a merger of the Racing Club de Vaise and the Rugby Club de Lyon. It was renamed Racing et Cercles Reunis in 1902 after several other clubs joined it, then a few months later Lyon Olympique

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