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1975 England rugby union tour of Australia

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The 1975 England rugby union tour of Australia was a series of eight matches played by the England national rugby union team in Australia in May and June 1975. England won only four of the eight matches and lost both internationals to Australia. In addition to the two test defeats they also lost to the Sydney and New South Wales Country representative teams.

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The England selectors boldly, and in the circumstances quite rightly, chose an experimental squad for this, England's first tour of Australia. That the experiment was not altogether successful, nor the tour the team building exercise it had been intended to be, was largely due to the extraordinary number of injuries suffered by the England squad, frequently to key players.

Matches

Scores and results list England's points tally first.

Touring party

  • Manager: A.O. Lewis
  • Assistant Manager: J. Burgess
  • Captain: Tony Neary (Broughton Park) 26 Caps
  • Full backs

  • Peter Butler (Gloucester) No Caps
  • Alastair Hignell (Cambridge University) No Caps
  • Three-quarters

  • A.W. Maxwell (New Brighton) No Caps
  • Alan Morley (Bristol) 5 Caps
  • Peter Preece (Coventry) 10 Caps
  • K. Smith (Roundhay) 4 Caps
  • Peter Squires (Harrogate) 12 Caps
  • Derek Wyatt (Bedford) No Caps
  • Half-backs

  • Brian Ashton (Orrell) No Caps
  • Neil Bennett (Bedford) 1 Cap
  • P Kingston (Gloucester) No Caps
  • A.J. Wordsworth (Cambridge University) No Caps
  • Replacements

  • Jeremy Janion (Richmond) 10 Caps
  • Alan Old (Middlesbrough) 12 Caps
  • I.N. Orum (Roundhay) No Caps
  • Forwards

  • Bill Beaumont (Fylde) 1 Cap
  • Phil Blakeway (Gloucester) No Caps
  • Mike Burton (Gloucester) 8 Caps
  • S.A. Callum (Upper Clapton) No Caps
  • Fran Cotton (Coventry) 14 Caps
  • N.D. Mantell (Rosslyn Park) No Caps
  • Tony Neary (Broughton Park) 26 Caps
  • John Pullin (Bristol) 39 Caps
  • J.A.G.D. Raphael (Northampton) No Caps
  • Andy Ripley (Rosslyn Park) 19 Caps
  • Dave Rollitt (Bristol) 9 Caps
  • Roger Uttley (Gosforth) 11 Caps
  • R.M. Wilkinson (Bedford) No Caps
  • Replacements

  • Peter Dixon (Gosforth) 13 Caps
  • B.G. Nelmes (Cardiff) No Caps
  • References

    1975 England rugby union tour of Australia Wikipedia