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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

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.

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