The 1959–60 Kangaroo tour was the tenth Kangaroo tour, in which the Australian national rugby league team traveled to Europe and played thirty-seven matches...
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Kangaroo Tour is the name given to Australia national rugby league team tours of Great Britain and France, tours to New Zealand and the one-off tour to...
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against the French. The tour followed the 1959-60 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France and was followed by the 1967-68 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and...
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Zealand 1956–57 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France 1959–60 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain, France, and Italy 1961 Kangaroo tour of New Zealand 1963–64...
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23 January 1960. This match was part of the 1959-60 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France. The Kangaroos defeated the home side with a score of 37–15...
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The 1986 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France was the sixteenth Kangaroo tour in which the Australian national rugby league team (known as the Winfield...
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Australia national rugby league team (redirect from Australian Kangaroos)
series 2–1. Australia hosted and won the 1957 World Cup. For the 1959–60 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain, the home nation retained the Ashes by winning...
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front of a small crowd of just 3,105 the Kangaroos, playing the 37th and last game of their 1959–60 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France, defeated the...
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His testimonial match for the club took place in 1959. Later that year, during the 1959–60 Kangaroo tour, he won his only cap for Great Britain in the 11-10...
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series with 162,169 attending the games. 1938-39 Kangaroo Tour - France vs Australia Australian Kangaroos - Head to Head Australia vs France rugby league...
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their streak of not having lost a test series in England since the 1959–60 Kangaroo tour. On 4 December 1994, at the Stade de la Méditerranée in Béziers...
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1959. He was the 1959 NSWRFL season's leading try-scorer with 19 and was rewarded with selection in the Australian side for the 1959-60 Kangaroo tour...
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Halton Stadium (section Rugby League Tour Matches)
leading to the ground being renamed in his honour. During the 1978 Kangaroo tour Widnes defeated Australia at Naughton Park before a crowd of 12,202...
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Wilderspool Stadium (section Rugby League Tour Matches)
ground. The record Kangaroo Tour attendance at the stadium was on the 1948-9 tour when 26,879 saw Warrington defeat the Kangaroos 16-7. Warrington RLFC...
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test during the 1963 Kangaroo tour. Played in front of 30,843 fans, the match became known as the "Swinton Massacre" as the Kangaroos ran riot. Winger Ken...
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non-playing coach of the Australia national team for their 1959–60 Kangaroo tour. On the tour the Australians lost the Ashes series to Great Britain but...
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Headingley Rugby Stadium (section Tour Matches)
(sometimes called English League) side play host to various international touring teams from 1911 to 2015. Headingley has hosted five games of the World...
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held since the 1978 Kangaroo tour and keeping their record of not having lost a series in England since the 1959–60 Kangaroo tour. Boyd's volatile nature...
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They have also played against international representative sides during tours to Great Britain. Titles 34: 1895–1896, 1896–1897, 1899–1900, 1900–1901...
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against the touring Great Britain side in 1958 and was the vice-captain to Welsh born Kangaroos captain Keith Barnes on the 1959–60 Kangaroo tour. An injury...
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Fartown Ground (section Rugby League Tour Matches)
defeated Gloucestershire by 67 runs. Yorkshire also played games against the touring Australians and South Africans at Fartown and an England XI played the...
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his international debut for Australia, becoming Kangaroo No. 338. He went on the 1959–60 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France, represented Australia...
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player in the fittest team in the competition. In 1959–60 he made the first of his three Kangaroo tours, scoring a try on debut in the third Test loss vs...
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He then toured with the Kangaroos to Great Britain in 1959-60 as vice-captain. Mossop played a total of nine Tests for Australia. In 1959 Mossop played...
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Rugby League Project. Retrieved 5 November 2023. "Dashing Finish by Kangaroos". The Sydney Morning Herald. Australia. 16 April 1953. p. 7. Retrieved...
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The 1994 Kangaroo Tour was the 18th and last Kangaroo Tour played in the conventional format, where the Australia national rugby league team (known as...
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The 1990 Kangaroo Tour was the seventeenth Kangaroo Tour, where the Australian national rugby league team (known as the XXXX Kangaroos due to sponsorship...
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Wales in 1959 and was subsequently selected for the 1959-60 Kangaroo Tour of Britain, France and Italy as a fullback. Chapman played 18 tour games and...
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England in the first test on the 1959-60 Kangaroo Tour. He is listed on the Australian Players Register as Kangaroo No.349. He won a premiership with...
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