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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.
The contest between The Wallabies and The Springboks is one of the major rivalries in rugby union. Since 2000s, the two teams have competed for the Mandela Challenge Plate. The teams' first meeting was on 8 July 1933 at Newlands in Cape Town in the first of 5 tests on the 1933 Wallabies tour. The test was won 17–3 by South Africa who also won ...
Coming off the Wallabies’ 28-26 win over the world champion Springboks last weekend, it’s advantage Australia solely because of the location — Australia hasn’t lost in five years at ...
World Cup-champion South Africa gave the previously unbeaten Wallabies a harsh reality check on Saturday, leading 14-0 early and beating Australia 33-7 in the opening Rugby Championship match for ...
The 2011 Tri Nations Series was the sixteenth annual Tri Nations rugby union series between the national rugby union teams of New Zealand, Australia and South Africa, respectively nicknamed the All Blacks, Wallabies and Springboks. It was also the last series in which only these three teams participated.
South Africa put Australia to the sword as Eddie Jones’s second stint in charge of the Wallabies got off to a disastrous start.. Kurt-Lee Arendse’s hat-trick powered the Springboks to a seven ...
The 1993 South Africa rugby union tour of Australia was a series of matches played by the Springboks in Australia during July and August 1993. It was the first tour of the South African team to Australia since the riots of controversial tour of 1971. The test series was won by the Wallabies with two test wins to one.
The 1998 Tri Nations Series was contested from 11 July to 22 August between the Australia, New Zealand and South Africa national rugby union teams. The Springboks won the tournament.