1965 Argentina rugby union tour of Rhodesia and South Africa

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1965 Argentina rugby union tour of Rhodesia and South Africa
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The 1965 Argentina rugby union tour of South Africa and Rhodesia was a series of sixteen matches played by the Argentina national rugby union team in May and June 1965.

It was the first tour of Argentinian team outside of South America. In this tour was born the nickname Pumas: for Argentinian Player. The victory against Junior Springboks, was considered historical; in the same day ("black Saturday") when Springboks was defeated in Australia

Matches

8 May 1965
Rhodesia 17 - 12 Argentina XV
Saliìsbury

12 May 1965
Northern Transvaal CD 25 - 13 Argentina XV
Petersburg

15 May 1965
Western Transvaal CD 11 - 38 Argentina XV
Potchefstroom

19 May 1965
SW Africa C.D. 5 - 43 Argentina XV
Windhoek

22 May 1965
Eastern Transvaal C.D. 9 - 22 Argentina XV
Ermelo

26 May 1965
Grigualand West C.D. 12 - 32 Argentina XV
Kimberley

29 May 1965
North Eastern district 6 - 17 Argentina XV
Aliwal North

1 June 1965
Border Country District 6 - 6 Argentina XV
Queenstown

3 June 1965
Eastern province CD 6 - 27 Argentina XV
Cradock


9 June 1965
Southern Universities 6 - 22 Argentina XV
Cape Town

12 June 1965
Boland C.D. 12 - 20 Argentina XV
Wellington

16 June 1965
Orange Free State C.D. 14 - 17 Argentina XV
Welkom

19 June 1965
Junior Springboks South Africa 6 - 11  Argentina
Try: du Preez 2 Try: Espana, Loyola
Pascual
Con: Poggi
Ellis Park, Johannesburg
Attendance: .000
Referee: Pieter Robbertse
Junior Springboks Argentina
Dries Pretorius FB 15 FB Roberto Cazenave
J. Serfontein W 14 W Enrico Neri
B. Ackerman C 13 C Marcelo Pascual
Johan van der Schyff C 12 C Arturo Rodriguez Jurado
Alan Wiggett W 11 W Eduardo Espana
Hugh Bladen FH 10 FH Eduardo Poggi
Kid du Preez SH 9 SH Adolfo Etchegaray
Koos Claasen N8 8 N8 Eduardo Scharemberg
Louis Slabber F 7 F Hector Silva
Oupa du Piesanie F 6 F Raul Loyola
Brian Irvine L 5 L Rodolfo Schmidt
E. Claassen L 4 L Aitor Otano (capt.)
W. Storm P 3 P Ronnie Foster
N.J.J. van Rensburg H 2 H Nicanor Gonzalez del Solar
R. Dercksen P 1 P Luis Garcia Yanez

23 June 1965
Natal Country District 14 - 24 Argentina XV
Durban

26 June 1965
SA Country District 31 - 11 Argentina XV
Bloemfontein

The team

  • Roberto Eduardo Cazenave,
  • Bernardo Aitor Otaño
  • Arturo Hilario Rodríguez Jurada
  • Ronaldo Foster
  • Nicanor César González del Solar
  • Enrico Neri
  • Eduardo Enrique Scharenberg
  • Adolfo Marcelo Etchegaray
  • Héctor Luis Silva
  • Guillermo Eduardo Mc Cormick
  • Marcelo Guillermo Pascual
  • Manuel María Beccar Vareta
  • Eduardo Juan Tomás Poggi
  • Agustín Silveyra
  • Heriberto Ricardo Handley
  • Luis Horacio García Yáñez
  • Héctor Goti
  • José Luis Imhoff
  • Eduardo España
  • Luis Raúl Loyola
  • Juan Francisco Benzi
  • R Golfo Schmidt
  • Guillermo Jiba
  • Jorge Hernán Dartiguelongue
  • Luis Moran- Gradín
  • Walter 0. Aniz.

Sources

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Notes

  1. The match with Junior Springboks was considered an official match only by Union Argentina de Rugby
  2. Not "cap match" for South African Rugby Board