Last Surviving Players
The last surviving player from the winning side was Ernesto Mascheroni, who died on 3 July 1984 at the age of 76. However, many other players who participated in the tournament were still alive by this stage and the last surviving player from the tournament was Argentina's Francisco Varallo, who died on 30 August 2010 at the age of 100 – 80 years after the tournament.
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