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SAARB Leopards (rugby Team)
The Leopards (also known as the African XV) were the South African African Rugby Board's representative side, which governed black Rugby football, rugby in apartheid South Africa. The team's name was reflected in the eponymous emblem that was worn on their rugby shirts. History In 1972, the Leopards played against England in Port Elizabeth, losing the match 3-36. One year later, a test against the touring Italian national side in Port Elizabeth resulted in a 4-24 defeat. The Leopards undertook the first tour abroad by a black South African rugby team when they traveled to Italy for a month during May 1974. The team was "the first South African team to tour Italy." The squad had 25 players and played in six fixtures, defeating Zebre in Milan, drawing against the Italian U23 side and losing four including a 10-25 defeat in the "test" defeat against the national side at Brescia. The latter was the only occasion when the margin of loss was by more than one score. Wingers Toto Tsots ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
South African African Rugby Board
The South African African Rugby Board (later renamed the South African Rugby Association) was the body that governed black African South African rugby union players during the apartheid era, and one of three segregated rugby unions operating during that time. The representative team of the African Rugby Board was known as the Leopards. Early black rugby and the first union As with the game among whites, clubs for black and coloured players emerged before unions were established, and before that may have started in missionary schools. Black rugby received a considerable boost from the missionaries who introduced the game to their schools for indigenous peoples. A region that particularly benefitted from such intervention was the Eastern Cape, which remained the stronghold of black rugby until the present day. Canon Robert John Mullins, headmaster of the Kaffir icInstitution from 1864, is usually credited as the first to introduce rugby to blacks, in the shape of his students. Mul ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |