Lucien Huteau

Club career

Club Français joined the USFSA in March 1894, and on 22 April of the same year, the 16-year-old Huteau started as a goalkeeper in the semifinal of the inaugural USFSA championship, which ended in a 0–1 loss to The White Rovers. Together with Marcel Lambert, Gaston Peltier, Georges Garnier, and captain Eugène Fraysse, Huteau was a starter in the Club Français team that won the 1896 USFSA Football Championship, doing so without losing a single match, and conceded just two goals in eight matches: one against Rovers (4–1 victory on 23 February) and one against Standard (4–1 victory on 15 March).

On 25 April, Huteau 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 1897, 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, he started for Club Français 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, which ended in a 2–3 loss. In the following year, on 16 April 1899, Huteau started in the play-off match against Standard AC to decide the 1898–99 USFSA Paris championship, helping his side to…

Lucien Huteau was born in Paris on 26 May 1878, and together with his brother, Georges Garnier and Fernand Canelle, he was a member of the small group of middle school students from the Lycée Chaptal who, in 1893, founded an unofficial club called the Etoile Sportive Parisiennne, which played on the pitch at the Château de Madrid in the Bois de Boulogne, and which was soon absorbed by Club Français, so called because it did not include any English players. His father became the secretary of Club Français.

Having retired from the field in the early 1900s, Huteau and his father remained closely linked to football, attending the final of the 1907 USFSA Football Championship between RC France and RC Roubaix on 7 April, alongside other former CF players, such as Garnier and René Ressejac-Duparc. In the following month, on 9 May 1907, he attended André Billy's Paris-Nord meeting, which served as annual test matches for the French national team. Huteau was president of the Association Commission [football] of the Paris Committee for the 1908–09 season. Recalled to military activity at the outbreak of the First World War, Huteau joined the 24th Territorial Infantry Regiment before moving to the 19th Train Squadron, seconded to the French military mission near the British Army as an interpreter. He was decorated with the Commemorative war medal and the Victory Medal.

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 (6): 1897, 1898, 1898–99, 1899, 1900, and 1902 Challenge International du Nord: Runner-up (1): 1900

International

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