André Puget

Early life and education André Puget was born in Paris, Seine on 12 January 1882, as the son of a magistrate, advisor to the Court of Appeal of Paris, and knight of the Legion of Honor. His father financed his stay in London, where Puget studied law, married, and then divorced, before remarrying less than six months later in Paris. He was thus taken seriously more in the literary world than in football. He was well-built and had everything to impose himself, except the will to do so, and likewise, one of his goals was described as "Puget, who until then had been very lazy, wakes up, and scores a goal after having "seized" the ball and having run the entire field"; this was the running theme that seems to define him, and therefore, he never reached his full potential.

On 31 March 1901, the 19-year-old Puget started in the final of the 1901 Coupe Dewar, which ended in a 3–0 loss to Standard AC. In the following month, on 21 April, he scored the winning goal against Le Havre in the preliminary rounds of the 1901 Challenge International du Nord.

Together with Pierre Allemane, Paul Zeiger, the Matthey brothers (Fernand and Raoul), and captain Alfred Tunmer, Puget was a member of the Racing team that reached back-to-back finals of the USFSA Football Championship in 1902 and 1903, both of which ending in losses to RC Roubaix. In the former, he even scored his side's third goal in an eventual 4–3 loss in extra-time,

A week earlier, on 21 April 1907, Puget earned his first (and only) international cap for France in a friendly match against Belgium at Uccle.

On 30 April 1911, Puget started in the final of the 1911 USFSA Football Championship in Marseille, which ended in a 3–2 loss to Stade Helvétique de Marseille.

Later life and death During the First World War, Puget was sent to the Western Front, where on 9 May 1915, he participated in the initial assault on the German "Labyrinth" stronghold, located near Neuville-Saint-Vaast, which failed with more than 700 dead who were hacked to pieces by machine guns.

Works La Nuit Blanche (The White Night): play in 2 acts in verse.

Honours Racing Club de France USFSA Football Championship: 1907; runner-up 1902, 1903, 1908, 1911 Dewar Cup: 1905, 1906, 1907; runner-up 1901, 1904