[3] ... probably the greatest Contract Bridge player in Europe ...At the bridge table Albarran played on the France open team that won the European IBL Championship in 1935 and on the slightly different team that traveled to New York City late that year for a match that may be considered the first world team championship.

He subsequently represented France in more than 30 international bridge competitions and won 19 national titles.

His contributions to bidding systems include the canapé approach and the convention later called Roman two-suiters.

"[3] After France won the inaugural World Team Olympiad three months later, Morehead wrote that an American visitor to a French bridge club would find one big difference in the bridge language, the canapé bidding advocated by Albarran and "adopted by millions of players throughout Europe".

[5] On the tennis court, he played for France in two Davis Cup tournaments and won the bronze medal in doubles with Max Décugis at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp.