1963 Australia rugby union tour of South Africa
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The 1963 Australia rugby union tour of South Africa was a series of twenty matches played by the Australia national rugby union team between June and September 1963. The Wallabies tied the series with the Springboks winning two and losing two Tests.
The tour was one of the highlights of the successful "Thornett Era" of Australian Rugby, buoyed by the leadership skills of skipper John Thornett and the outstanding skills of greats of the game like Ken Catchpole, Peter Johnson and Rob Heming. Dick Marks and Peter Crittle also toured and would later become among the most influential administrators of Australian rugby.[1]
Matches
[edit]Scores and results list Australia's points tally first.
Opposing Team | For | Against | Date | Venue | Status |
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Eastern Transvaal | 14 | 0 | 15 June 1963 | Tour Match | |
Boland | 30 | 13 | 22 June 1963 | Tour Match | |
Southern Universities | 8 | 11 | 26 June 1963 | Newlands, Cape Town | Tour Match |
Natal | 13 | 14 | 29 June 1963 | King's Park, | Tour Match |
Rhodesia | 12 | 5 | 6 July 1963 | Salisbury | Tour Match |
Transvaal | 14 | 5 | 8 July 1963 | Johannesburg | Tour Match |
South Africa | 3 | 14 | 13 July 1963 | Pretoria | Test Match |
Griqualand West | 14 | 6 | 20 July 1963 | Tour Match | |
Northern Transvaal | 11 | 11 | 24 July 1963 | Pretoria | Tour Match |
Border | 6 | 3 | 27 July 1963 | Tour Match | |
South West Africa | 24 | 6 | 31 July 1963 | Tour Match | |
Western Transvaal | 14 | 12 | 3 August 1963 | Tour Match | |
South Africa | 9 | 5 | 10 August 1963 | Cape Town | Test Match |
Eastern Province | 10 | 3 | 14 August 1963 | Tour Match | |
Junior Springboks | 5 | 12 | 17 August 1963 | Springs | Tour Match |
Central Universities | 28 | 11 | 20 August 1963 | Tour Match | |
South Africa | 11 | 9 | 24 August 1963 | (Ellis park), Johannesburg | Test Match |
Western Province | 6 | 12 | 31 August 1963 | Newlands, Cape Town | Tour Match |
Orange Free State | 8 | 14 | 2 September 1963 | Tour Match | |
South Africa | 6 | 22 | 7 September 1963 | (Boet Erasmus), Port Elizabeth | Test Match |
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Meares and Howell; Wallaby Legends; Lothian Books, 2005