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1959 British Lions Tour To Australia And New Zealand
In 1959, the British Lions rugby union team toured Australia and New Zealand. The Lions won the two test matches against but lost the international series against the All Blacks by three matches to one. They also played two matches in Canada, on the return leg of the journey. Although New Zealand won the series, the results in three of the tests were close. The Lions scored four tries to nil in the first test but six penalties by Don Clarke saw the All Blacks win 18–17. Clarke also scored a late try and conversion to win the second test, 11–8. New Zealand won the third test comfortably by 22–8 to win the series but the fourth test, which the Lions won 9–6, could have gone the All Blacks way had Clarke not missed a late penalty attempt. Overall the tourists played thirty-three matches, winning twenty-seven and losing six. In Australia the Lions played six matches, winning five and losing one, to New South Wales. In New Zealand they played twenty-five matches, winning t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ronnie Dawson (rugby Union)
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Mick English (rugby Union)
Michael Anthony Francis English (2 June 1933 – 27 April 2010) was an Irish rugby union player, who won 16 caps for Ireland between 1958 and 1963, and was selected for the 1959 British Lions tour to Australia and New Zealand, though injury prevented English from winning any test caps for the touring side. Life English was educated at Rockwell College and went on to join UL Bohemians and winning the Munster Senior Cup with the club in 1958, 1959 and 1962, before moving to Dublin and joining Lansdowne, with whom he won a Leinster Senior Cup in 1965. English went on to become Lansdowne's club president during the 1989–90 season. His career with native province Munster saw English play against touring teams from Australia, South Africa and New Zealand. Internationally, English first played for Ireland in 1958, replacing Jack Kyle as the teams fly-half. In his 16 caps for his country, English scored 9 points, all from drop goals. In 1959, English won selection for the Briti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sale Sharks
Sale Sharks is a professional rugby union club from Greater Manchester, England. They play in Premiership Rugby, England's top division of rugby. Originally founded in 1861 as Sale Football Club, now a distinct amateur club, they adopted the nickname Sharks in 1999. Since 2012 they have played their home games at the A.J. Bell Stadium in Barton-upon-Irwell, Salford. Between 1905 and 2003 they played at Heywood Road in Sale, before moving to Edgeley Park in Stockport where they stayed until 2012. Their traditional colours are blue and white. Sale have won four major trophies. They were Premiership Rugby Champions in 2005–06, won the European Rugby Challenge Cup in 2001–02, 2004–05 and the Premiership Rugby Cup in 2019/20. They also won the RFU Championship in 1994. In the 2021–22 Premiership Rugby season Sale finished sixth, which entitled them to compete in the 2022–23 European Rugby Champions Cup. The Director of Rugby is Alex Sanderson who was appointed in J ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bill Patterson (rugby Union)
William Michael Patterson (11 April 1936 – January 1999) was an English rugby union player who played in the Centre position. Patterson played club rugby for Sale RFC, Gloucester RFC, Wasps FC and Chiltern RFC, was capped twice for the England national team, and was a member of the British Lions team that toured in 1959. Club career While a pupil at Sale Grammar School for Boys, Patterson represented Cheshire Schools. He joined Sale RFC in 1954, spending the majority of his playing career at the club including a stint as club captain from 1960 until 1963. Aside from a brief appearance for Gloucester RFC in 1959, Patterson remained at Sale until 1965, when he moved to join Wasps FC {{Infobox rugby team , teamname = Wasps Football Club , nickname = , image = WaspsFC1867.png , colours = Black and yellow , fullname = , founded = 1867 , ground = Twyford Avenue Sports Ground , capacity = , location = ... in London. After leaving Wasps in 1968, Patt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wanderers F
Wanderer, Wanderers, or The Wanderer may refer to: * Nomadic and/or itinerant people, working short-term before moving to other locations, who wander from place to place with no permanent home, or are vagrant * The Wanderer, an alternate name for the Wandering Jew Books Novels * ''The Wanderer'' (Burney novel), an 1814 novel by Frances Burney * ''The Wanderer'' (Creech novel), 2000 novel by Sharon Creech * ''The Wanderer'' (Edwards novel), a 1953 children's novel by Monica Edwards * ''The Wanderer'' (Leiber novel), a 1964 novel by Fritz Leiber * ''The Wanderers'' (Price novel), a 1974 novel by Richard Price * ''The Wanderers'' (Rimland novel), a 1977 novel by Ingrid Rimland * ''The Wanderers'' (Shishkov novel), a 1931 novel by Vyacheslav Shishkov * ''The Wanderer'' (Gibran book), a book by Kahlil Gibran * ''The Wanderer'' (Waltari novel), a 1949 novel by Mika Waltari * ''The Wanderer'' or ''Le Grand Meaulnes'', a 1913 novel by Alain-Fournier * ''The Wanderers'', a 2017 no ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andy Mulligan (rugby Union)
Andrew Armstrong Mulligan (4 February 1936 – 24 February 2001) was a rugby union international who captained Ireland and the British & Irish Lions, playing at scrum-half. Rugby football career Educated at Gresham's School, Holt from 1945 to 1954,"Andy Mulligan" (obituary) in ''The Times'' dated 28 February 2001, p. 23, from The Times Digital Archive, accessed 16 September 2013 he captained the School's First XV in 1953-1954. He played 22 internationals for Ireland. His first was against France on 28 January 1956, and his last against South Africa in 1961. Mulligan was three times captain of Ireland, and he also captained the British & Irish Lions against Manawatu on the 1959 tour. He also played varsity rugby for Cambridge University and was captain of London Irish. In 1964 he wrote the book ''All Blacks Tour 1963-4'', a complete record of the New Zealand tour to Britain, Ireland, and France. Later career When he retired from international rugby, he moved to France whe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Old Belvedere
Old Belvedere R.F.C. is a senior Irish rugby union club based on Anglesea Road in Ballsbridge, Dublin, Ireland. Old Belvedere was originally founded in 1918–19 by former pupils of Belvedere College. Old Belvedere enters senior men's teams in the All-Ireland League, the Leinster Senior League and the Leinster Senior Cup. In 2010–11 they were All-Ireland League champions. Between 1940 and 1946 the club won the Leinster Senior Cup seven times in a row. This remains a competition record. Old Belvedere also enters men's and women's teams in various senior, junior and youth leagues. History Early years Old Belvedere Rugby Football Club was originally established in 1918–19 following a meeting at Belvedere College. The club initially played in the Dublin League. At the final meeting during their debut season, it was decided to enter senior rugby union and open the club to other Jesuit college students and "to outsiders, who may wish to join us." Their first senior match was aga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dickie Jeeps
Richard Eric Gautrey Jeeps, (25 November 1931 – 8 October 2016), known as Dickie Jeeps, was an English rugby union player who played for Northampton having started his career with Cambridge Rugby Club. He represented and captained both the England national rugby union team and the British Lions in the 1950s and 1960s. He subsequently became a sports administrator and Chairman of the Sports Council. He was appointed CBE in 1977. Biography Richard Eric Gautrey Jeeps was born on 25 November 1931 in Chesterton (England). He was educated at Bedford Modern School. Jeeps played at scrum half 24 times for England including all four matches of the Grand Slam season of 1957. Jeeps was selected to join the British Lions party to tour South Africa in 1955 and is one of that select group of players capped for the British Lions before being capped by his country. Jeeps felt that his selection for the Lions was due to playing an invitation match with Cliff Morgan in Cornwall shortly be ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coventry R
Coventry ( or ) is a city in the West Midlands, England. It is on the River Sherbourne. Coventry has been a large settlement for centuries, although it was not founded and given its city status until the Middle Ages. The city is governed by Coventry City Council. Formerly part of Warwickshire until 1451, Coventry had a population of 345,328 at the 2021 census, making it the tenth largest city in England and the 12th largest in the United Kingdom. It is the second largest city in the West Midlands region, after Birmingham, from which it is separated by an area of green belt known as the Meriden Gap, and the third largest in the wider Midlands after Birmingham and Leicester. The city is part of a larger conurbation known as the Coventry and Bedworth Urban Area, which in 2021 had a population of 389,603. Coventry is east-south-east of Birmingham, south-west of Leicester, north of Warwick and north-west of London. Coventry is also the most central city in England, bein ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Jackson (rugby Union)
Peter Jackson (22 September 1930, in Birmingham – , in Solihull) was an rugby union international who played on the wing for Coventry and Warwickshire for many years. He earned the nickname 'Nijinsky' after the Russian ballet dancer. He was devastating when he had the ball to hand and could sidestep or outpace a defender with equal facility. He scored three tries in the 1957 Five Nations Championship and helped England to their first Grand Slam since the Twenties. In 1958 against at Twickenham, he demonstrated his mastery of the feint to score a dazzling match-winning try. He was capped twenty times in all for England. He then amazed the All Blacks The New Zealand national rugby union team, commonly known as the All Blacks ( mi, Ōpango), represents New Zealand in men's international rugby union, which is considered the country's national sport. The team won the Rugby World Cup in 1987 ... on the 1959 Lions tour, scoring 16 tries in 14 games, including four test ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Leicester Tigers
Leicester Tigers (officially Leicester Football Club) are a professional rugby union club based in Leicester, England. They play in Premiership Rugby, England's top division of rugby. The club was founded in 1880 and since 1892 plays its home matches at Mattioli Woods Welford Road in the south of the city. The club has been known by the nickname Tigers since at least 1885. In the 2020-21 Premiership Rugby season Tigers finished 6th, this entitled them to compete in the 2021–22 European Rugby Champions Cup. The current head coach is Richard Wigglesworth, who was appointed as interim head coach in December 2022. Leicester have won 21 major titles. They were European Champions twice, back-to-back in 2001 and 2002; have won a record 11 English Championships, and have won eight Anglo-Welsh Cups, most recently in 2017. Leicester last won the Premiership Rugby title in the 2022 season, and appeared in a record nine successive Premiership finals, from 2005 to 2013. Leice ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Phil Horrocks-Taylor
John Philip Horrocks-Taylor (27 October 1934 – 11 February 2021) was a rugby union fly half who played for Leicester Tigers between 1958 and 1963; he represented England 9 times between 1958 and 1964 and was selected for the 1959 British Lions tour to Australia and New Zealand where he played in the third test. He was a Cambridge University blue in Rugby for 1956 and 1957. Career Horrocks-Taylor came up to St John's College, Cambridge in 1955 after playing in his native Yorkshire for Halifax and completing his national service at Catterick. Horrocks-Taylor joined Leicester in 1958, making his debut on 27 September against Harlequins at Twickenham, Horrocks-Taylor was described as a "brilliant half-back, who is the most talked young player about in rugger circles". Horrocks-Taylor left Leicester in September 1963 after receiving a job offer in Middlesbrough that was "too good to turn down", and joined the local club, in the 1964 Five Nations Championship he played his fin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
