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While in St. Louis he met Harry Langenberg, a founding member of the Princeton Rugby Club, where they eventually came together to form the Ramblers Rugby Club in 1933. The Ramblers are St. Louis’ oldest and the nation’s second oldest active men’s rugby club. The Ramblers green and white uniform was adopted sometime between 1947 and 1950.
The History of the South Africa national rugby union team dates back to 1891, when the British Lions first toured South Africa where they played against South African representative sides. The South Africa national rugby union team played few international matches during a period of international sanctions due to apartheid.
In the 1984 England rugby union tour of South Africa, only Ralph Knibbs of Bristol refused to tour for political reasons. [citation needed] 1985: A planned All Black tour of South Africa was stopped by the New Zealand High Court. A rebel tour took place the next year by a team known as the Cavaliers. [citation needed] 1989
Rugby union in South Africa is centrally administered by the South African Rugby Union, which consists of fourteen provincial unions – the Blue Bulls Rugby Union, the Boland Rugby Union, the Border Rugby Football Union, the Eastern Province Rugby Union, the Free State Rugby Union, the Golden Lions Rugby Union, the Griffons Rugby Union, the Griqualand West Rugby Union, the KwaZulu-Natal Rugby ...
Based on a loose affiliation with both University of Missouri-Kansas City and Rockhurst College, the Kansas City Blues Rugby Club was established in 1966. The founding members focused on developing a unique club identity and culture. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, the Blues elevated their rugby knowledge and skills, becoming successful in the ...
Kimberley was the founding city of the South Africa Rugby Football Board in 1889. In 1889 the first nationwide tournament was held at Kimberley, with the Western Province (rugby team) prevailing over Griqualand West, Eastern Province and Transvaal. British Isles v Cape Colony, the first match of the British Isles tour of South Africa in 1891
Over the next several years, rugby league lay dormant in South Africa and it was not until the 1960s when talks of creating a national side began. After much discussion within South Africa, it was eventually agreed for a national side to play a touring Great Britain and then undertake a tour of Australasia. The first South African national side ...
The two teams were to meet again in November 2004 when South Africa toured the UK and Ireland, playing each of the home nations.In the lead-up to the match, South African coach Jake White provided additional motivation to the Irish team by publicly repeating his statement from earlier in the year that "only three Irish players would be good enough to get onto the South African team".