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A similar change was envisioned for the national rugby team. Consequently, from 1992, the national rugby team jersey featured a King Protea alongside the Springbok. As portrayed in the film Invictus, pressure to replace the Springbok emblem intensified in 1994, just before the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa.
The first springbok logo was introduced in 1906 during a Springboks tour. The first Springbok colours were created in 1906 during the 1906–07 South Africa rugby union tour of the Northern Hemisphere as none had been provided for them and the captain Paul Roos decided that the team need to create their own emblem and nickname to prevent the British press creating one for them.
Percy Montgomery holds the South African record for Test points. South Africa's most capped player is Eben Etzebeth with 128 caps. Matfield was the most-capped lock for any nation in rugby history, with all of his 127 appearances at that position in 2011, this record has now been overtaken by Alun Wyn Jones. [1]
Ebenhaezer Olivier (born 10 April 1944) is a South African former rugby union international. [1]Olivier was born and raised in Kirkwood, a town near Port Elizabeth. [2]A provincial player for Western Province, Olivier was capped in 16 Test matches as a centre for the Springboks from 1967 to 1969.
Eben Etzebeth (born 29 October 1991) is a South African professional rugby union player who currently plays for the Sharks in the United Rugby Championship and the South Africa national rugby team. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] He made his international debut for the Springboks in 2012 and has since won 130 caps, making him the Springboks' most capped player.
Errol George Tobias (born 18 March 1950) is a former South African rugby union player, and the first player of colour to play in a test match for the South African national side. He gained six caps between 1981 and 1984 when the country was still following the policy of apartheid .
Cecil "Bill" Payn (9 August 1893 - 31 October 1959), born in Harding, Colony of Natal, was a Springbok rugby player. He matriculated at Maritzburg College in Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa. He played as a flanker. He was more commonly known as "Bill". He died in Durban, Natal, South Africa.
He is listed as captain number 13 by the South African Rugby Annual, the official yearbook of the South African Rugby Union. [5] 2 ^ Felix and Morné du Plessis are the only father-son combination who captained South Africa. 3 ^ Victor Matfield returned as captain in June 2014 after Jean de Villiers was injured.