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Since 1908 Australia and Wales have competed against each other in rugby union in forty-nine matches, Australia having won thirty-four, Wales fourteen, with one draw. Since 2007 the teams have competed for the James Bevan Trophy , which was created to celebrate 100 years of rugby between the two nations. [ 1 ]
0–9. 1908–09 Australia rugby union tour of Britain; 1927–28 New South Wales rugby union tour of the British Isles, France and Canada; 1947–48 Australia rugby union tour of Britain, Ireland, France and North America
The 1978 Wales rugby union tour of Australia was a series of nine matches played by the Wales national rugby union team in Australia in May and June 1978. The Welsh team won five matches and lost four, including losing both of their international matches against the Australia national rugby union team .
Australia Wales: 18–8 1978 summer tour Australia: 17 June 1978 Sydney Cricket Ground Australia Wales: 19–17 Australia: 11 November 1978 Cardiff Arms Park/National Stadium Wales New Zealand: 12–13 New Zealand: 20 January 1979 Murrayfield Stadium Scotland Wales: 13–19 1979 Five Nations Championship Wales: 3 February 1979
The Wales national rugby union team toured Australia in May and June 2007, playing two tests against the Australia national team as part of their preparation for the 2007 Rugby World Cup. They lost the first test in Sydney 29–23 before being shut out in the second, losing 31–0 in Brisbane, and Australia claimed the newly inaugurated James ...
Rugby union holds the match attendance record of any football code in New South Wales (109,874), Western Australia (61,241) and the Australian Capital Territory (28,753). Australia has also achieved success in numerous Rugby Sevens tournaments with the women's sevens team winning the Rugby World Cup Sevens once in 2009 , winning gold at the ...
Map of nations best results, excluding nations which unsuccessfully participated in qualifying tournaments. The Australia national rugby union team, known as the Wallabies, has played in all ten Rugby World Cup tournaments. They have won the World Cup on two occasions; only New Zealand and South Africa have won more.
Daguerreotype of Tom Wills, taken during his time at Rugby School. Australian rules football was first played in Australia in 1858. The founder of the game was Tom Wills.At the age of 14, Wills was sent to England to attend Rugby School, where he became captain of Rugby's cricket team.