Brighton, Britain, July 25, 1925
A shorter boat trip was sufficient to hold the athletics dual meet between Britain and France compared to the Harvard-Yale vs Oxford-Cambridge meet a week earlier.
Perhaps the highest-quality event in Brighton was the 200m. French Olympian André Mourlon dashed to victory in 21.6, tying for fourth place in the season's rankings. The hosts' Walter Rangeley, the Amsterdam Olympics 200m silver medallist, lost by only a tenth of a second, but even that time ranked tied for 17th in the season's statistics.
Future eye surgeon Henry Stallard ran to first place in the 800. With his winning time, he placed tied for 10th in the season's rankings. Stallard is remembered from the 1500 meters at the Paris Olympics. The bronze medallist tried to keep some sort of contact with Paavo Nurmi and, in that mad dash, pushed himself so hard that he collapsed immediately after finishing. The Briton recovered the next day in the hospital.
In the 1500 meters, meanwhile, Roger Pelé, who had been eliminated in the heats of the 5000 metres at the Amsterdam Olympics, secured the event win for the tricolor with a moderate time of 4:00.8.
France, which had been improving towards the end of the 1920s, whipped the home team 59–53. It was France's first victory over their opponents from across the Channel. The three other clashes between 1921–1924 had ended in British victories.