President's Overseas XV

President's Overseas XV[a]

Programme for the President's Overseas XV match played in 1971

The President's Overseas XV was a 1971 rugby union squad, chosen to celebrate the centenary of the English Rugby Football Union, the oldest national rugby organisation in existence.[1]

The players were chosen from five nations – Australia, Fiji, France, New Zealand and South Africa – and were considered to be the finest in the game at the time. Scottish, Welsh and Irish players were not in the selection, nor ones from several other major rugby playing nations, e.g. Argentina, Canada, Italy, Romania, the USSR, USA or Japan, or the other two main Pacific nations, Western Samoa, and Tonga.

The President's Overseas won 28-11.

The President's selection

The complete squad is as follows:

Notes

  1. S. M. Going named in programme as replacement.
  2. Carrière, Cester, Barley, Bertranne, and McCallum were not named in the programme teamsheet, but were detailed in the player profiles.

The match

The game was played at Twickenham in front of 50,000 spectators. Test caps were awarded, and Dixon and Creed earned their first caps for England in this match.[2]

17 April 1971
England  11–28 President's Overseas XV
Try: Hiller
Con: Hiller (1/1)
Pen: Hiller (2/?)
 Report Try: Kirkpatrick (2)
Marais
Williams (3)
Con: Villepreux (5/6)
Twickenham Stadium, London
Referee: M Titcomb (Gloucestershire)
Touch judge - Air Cdre G.C.Lamb CBE AFC (RAF)
Touch judge -R.F.Johnson (Kent)
FB 15Bob Hiller (Harlequins)
RW 14Jeremy Janion (Bedford)
OC 13John Spencer (c) (Headingley)
IC 12David Duckham (Coventry)
LW 11Peter Glover (Bath)
FH 10Dick Cowman (Loughborough Colleges)
SH 9 Nigel Starmer-Smith (Harlequins)
LP 1 Brian Stevens (Harlequins)
HK 2 John Pullin (Bristol)
TP 3 Fran Cotton (Loughborough Colleges)
LL 4 Peter Larter (Northampton)
RL 5 Chris Ralston (Richmond)
BF 6 Roger Creed (Coventry)
OF 7 Tony Neary (Broughton Park)
N8 8 Peter Dixon (Harlequins)
FB 15France Pierre Villepreux
RW 14Australia Stephen Knight
OC 13France Jo Maso
IC 12South Africa Joggie Jansen
LW 11New Zealand Bryan Williams
FH 10New Zealand Wayne Cottrell
SH 9 South Africa Dawie de Villiers
LP 1 Australia Roy Prosser
HK 2 [[
TP 3 [[
LL 4 [[
RL 5 [[
BF 6 [[
OF 7 [[
N8 8 [[

England: Replacements: A Johnson (Northampton); J Page (Bedford); R Webb (Coventry); I Wright (Northampton); J Broderick (Coventry); R Hannaford (Bristol)

President's Overseas XV: [[]], ( Australia); Peter Johnson, ( Australia); Hannes Marais, ( South Africa); Colin Meads, ( New Zealand); Frik du Preez, ( South Africa); Greg Davis, ( Australia); Brian Lochore, ( New Zealand) (captain); Ian Kirkpatrick, ( New Zealand)

Unused or absent - John Cole, ( Australia); Ron Urlich, ( New Zealand); Jona Qoro, ( Fiji); George Barley, ( Fiji); Elie Cester, ( France); Christian Carrière, ( France); Ian McCallum, ( South Africa); Roland Bertranne, ( France)

References

  1. ↑ Note- the RFU predates the split into rugby union and rugby league.
  2. ↑ Scrum.com match summary

See also

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