Boks

1950s Bok touring side leaves great rugby legacy

Some six years after hostilities had ended after World War 2, and peace had returned to the Earth, SA sent a rugby squad to tour Great Britain and France for three months in 1951 and 1952. The team developed into possibly the best-ever…

Peter Martin

Springbok captain Morne Du Plessis is carried from the field following his side’s victory in the third Test against the British Lions at Boet Erasmus Stadium in Port Elizabeth on June 28 1980. Image: Adrian Murrell/Getty Images

BILL BEAUMONT

12 JUL 2020

Morne du Plessis reflects on Boks’ 1980 Lions series

Last week marked one year to the start of the British and Irish Lions’ next tour to SA, and 40 years since the curtain dropped on their eventful Test series here in 1980. When the 1980 Lions arrived here, the Springboks, due to isolation…

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