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1906 and the first team to tour Great Britain from South Africa
"THE SPRINGBOKS"
The start of my collection for the 1906 Springboks will be based on postcards but I hope to add other items over the next year, to give a full picture of the tour.
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| The Team from 1906 | The teams Autographs | The team in Exeter |
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| A historic win for Scotland | A Draw for England | Defeat for Ireland |
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| The team in taken by W. B. Shaw in Cape Town and published in London | Cartoon celebrating England's draw | Bad news for Walse |
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| The Springboks in London 1906 this card produced by P. S & co. box 1205 Cape Town, from a photo by Half -Tone, London | The South African Rugby Football team photo by W. b. Shaw cape town printed and published in London - smart boys in 1906 | The famous South African Rugby Team, taken later in the tour? published in Cornwall |
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| South African Rugby team. Oct 3rd 1906, 3rd match of the tour on a Wednesday against Kent at Blackheath | This card sent on Dec 12 1906 with reference to the game against Cumberland sent from South Africa | Mr Gilbert Evens who referred a number of the 1906 and 1912/13 games. |
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| Comic card showing defeat against Scotland | Comic card issued in SA remarks about loss to Scotland | 1906 Springbok's cap from J. Le Rouse |
The Payers.............
These pen pictures have been taken from Taddy cigarette cards
The Manager...
The Captain...
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| Brink | Hirsch | De Villers | De Mulker | Daneel | Brookes |
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| Burger | Burmeister | Marsburg | Martheze | Jackson | D. Morkel |
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| J. Le Rouse | A. Morkel | Millar | W. S. Morkel | Stegmann | Neill |
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| Raaff | Reid | Loubser | P. Le Rouse | Mare | Carlolin |
Some mementoes from the tour
A Souvenir programme of the tour 1906
The Matches......
East Midlands and Midlands Counties 66 points to nil
In the opening week's play of the South African team.- defeat of East Midlands and Midland Counties. The visitors began their tour by scoring at Northampton and Leicester in the two matches score a total of 66 points to nil.
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| SA v East Midlands - Collared low down by a colonist | SA v East Midlands - A rush stopped | SA v Midlands Counties - The rival counties, V. H. Cartwright and P. Roos, tossing | SA v Midlands Counties - A struggle for the ball |
These pictures from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News 6th October 1906.
Yorkshire at Leeds - 34 points to nil
By defeating Yorkshire last Saturday the redoubtable Colonists brought their English record to 187 points against 4 in a series of six victorious matches.
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| Breaking from a scrum | South Africa make a good run up the field | F. E. Steinthal picking up for Yorks | H. W. Carolin taking a place kick, Roos on the ground. |
These pictures from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic news Oct 20 1906
Devon v South Africa - 22 points to 6 points
This match was played at The Rectory Ground, Devonport. on 17th October, 1906. This was the 7th match of the tour and a score of South Africa 22 points against Devon 6 points more than doubled the number of points scored against the Springboks in there first 6 games. So far they had played 6, won 6, points for 187 against 4. As noted in the book about the tour "The CAROLIN Papers" their hardest game to date, with E. W. Roberts of Devon being the first player to score a try against the touring South Africans.
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| The match day programme front cover with nice image of a "Springbok" | The back of the programme with a picture of the squad, from "The Western Morning News" this was later issued as a postcard | The "Springboks" poem their first ever tour and famous in verse after only 3 weeks | Programme of events - music and tour record to date |
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| The teams Roos as captain with 5 English internationals and one Scot in the Devon side | "Mems about Men" pen pics and details of the SA side, interesting nicknames. | The cover | The cover showing back page attached |
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| The inside of the 3 fold programme. | The outside of the programme | E. W. Roberts first player to cross the South African line for a try, this picture from a Taddy cigarette card |
Glamorgan at Cardiff - 6pts to 3pts win for SA
The Glamorgan team :- Winfield, Maddocks, Trew, Gabe, Morgan, Owen, Toft, Joseph, Neill, Brown, Northmore, Jones, Williams, Hunt and Thomas.
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| The Glamorgan team | The South Africans find an opening | No 2 gets the ball from a kick | The South Africans make a rush | Owen the Glamorgan captain |
These pictures from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News 10th November 1906.
Scotland - 6pts to nil a win for Scotland
The first defeat of the South Africans "Springboks" in sixteen engagements.
Newspaper report states:- "Although the ground was unsuitable to the Africans style of play, and more than one of their man suffered injury in the course of the game, it was generally thought that the Scotchmen won the game on their merits last Saturday".
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| A throw in by the Springboks | The game in full swing | A line out | A free kick for Scotland |
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| A Scotch pass intercepted | Half time - At half time neither side had scored | A sponge down at half-time | An injury to a Colonial |
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| A dangerous Scottish opening closed | Waiting for the ball to leave the scrum | "Scotland For Ever" Triumphant march of Scottish pipes, amid cries of "Scotland For ever" |
These pictures from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News and Black and White 24th November 1906.
Ireland at Belfast - 15pts to 12pts a win for South Africa
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| A throw in by Ireland | Ireland heels out and gets the ball | Joubert, the newly-arrived young Colonial, who played perfectly at back. |
These pictures from the Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic 1st December 1906.
Wales
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| Getting the ball from a line-out | A rush stopped on the touch line | Morkel with the ball | Brilliant foot work in mid field |
These pictures from the Black and White 8th December 1906.