Gaston Peltier

Early career

In the semifinals of the inaugural USFSA championship between Club Français and The White Rovers, Peltier served as a linesman under referee Georges Caizac as Rovers won 1–0. Together with Lucien Huteau, Marcel Lambert, Georges Garnier, and captain Eugène Fraysse, Peltier was a starter in the Club Français team that won the 1896 USFSA Football Championship, doing so without losing a single match. On 25 April 1897, Peltier started in the final of the inaugural Coupe Manier against the newly crowded champions of France Standard AC, helping his side to a 4–3 win after extra-time. A few months later, on 26 December, he started in the very first football match in the history of the Parc des Princes in front of 500 spectators, in which Club Français was defeated 1–3 by the English Ramblers. On 28 March 1898, Peltier started in the 1898 Coupe Manier final at the Vélodrome de Vincennes, helping his side to a 10–0 win over Paris Star. In the following week, on 3 April, he started in the final of the 1898 USFSA Football Championship against Standard AC at Courbevoie, scoring the opening goal in an eventual 2–3 loss.

National dominance

In the following year, on 16 April 1899, he started in the play-off match against Standard AC to decide the 1898–99 USFSA Paris championship, scoring his side's third goal in a 3–2 win. This victory qualified the club to the 1899 USFSA national championship, in which Club Français withdrew from the final before facing Le…

The French champions in 1899 and 1900, Havre AC, were not willing to participate, so the USFSA asked for the runners-up Club Français to participate, possibly to also attract more spectators and keep down expenses, and the three guest players were Peltier, Eugène Fraysse, and René Ressejac-Duparc of Racing Club de France. Peltier was listed as a forward for the USFSA team at the 1900 Olympic Games. Peltier was not selected for the opening match against Upton Park on 20 September, which ended in a humiliating 0–4 loss, so he was then picked up for the second match three days later, scoring twice to help his side to a 6–2 victory over Belgium, which was mostly made up of students from the French-speaking Université libre de Bruxelles. The French team came second and Peltier was thus awarded with a silver medal. With two goals, Peltier was the joint top scorer of the tournament alongside Britain's John Nicholas.

Peltier fought in the First World War, during which he was poisoned by a gas shell; he was decorated with the Croix de guerre (1914–1918).

Club

Club Français USFSA Paris Championship: Champions (2): 1898–99 and 1899–1900 USFSA Football Championship: Champions (1): 1896 Runner-up (3): 1898, 1899 and 1900 Coupe Manier: Champions (4): 1898, 1899, 1900, and 1902 Challenge International du Nord: Runner-up (1): 1900 Coupe Dewar: Runner-up (1): 1903

International

France MNT Summer Olympics: Silver medal (1): 1900