Written by Alan Garside, John Punshon and Greg Stock. For more details see credits
| An Australian team toured South Africa over two months in 1950. The side played four test matches against the South Africans which are found in the A archive, and a number of games against club and representative sides. These matches are listed below. | ||||
| Played : Wednesday May 24 1950 | Venue : Capetown, South Africa | |||
| Western Province (SAF) A Credie, W Brown, J Hastie, M Maskin, A Louw, A Powell, T McKay, A Boswell, A Luck, L Miller, J Bingle Goal : Bingle pen |
1 | - | 2 | Australia Norman Conquest, Kevin O'Neill, Cec Drummond, Bob Lawrie (c), Tom Jack, Bob Young, George Sanders, Allan Johns, Gordon Nunn, Eric Hulme, Harry Robertson Goals : Nunn 15' 16' |
| Attendance : 10,000 Coach : Tom Jack (Australia) | ||||
| Played : Saturday May 27 1950 | Venue : Ellis Park, Johannesburg | |||
| Southern Transvaal (SAF) P Els, B Mechanick, Gordon Frew, H Konner, L Boonznaier (C), G Jacques, R Montgomery, K Zeising, V Morais, A Butler, M Taylor Goal : Montgomery 47' |
1 | - | 1 | Australia Norman Conquest, Kevin O'Neill, Cec Drummond, Bob Lawrie (c), Tom Jack, Bob Young, George Sanders, Allan Johns, Gordon Nunn, Frank Parsons, Harry Robertson Goal : Parsons 85' |
| Attendance : 25,000 Coach : Tom Jack | ||||
| Played Wednesday May 31 1950 | Venue : Pretoria, South Africa | |||
| Northern Transvaal (SAF) Aubrey Tyrell (GK), Roulf Oelofse, P Whyte, C Swemmer, Harry Naish (c), W Bunton, M Gray, K Shea, Johnny Claassens, Tony Holtz, Venter Goals : Holtz 10' _' Venter (Other scorers unavailable) |
5 | - | 3 | Australia Norman Conquest, Kevin O'Neill, Cec Drummond, Bob Lawrie (c), Tom Jack, Bob Young, George Sanders, Allan Johns, Gordon Nunn, Frank Parsons, Harry Robertson Goals : Nunn pen (Other scorers unavailable) |
| Attendance : 13,000 Coach : Tom Jack (Australia) | ||||
| Played : Saturday June 3 1950 | Venue : Durban, South Africa | |||
| Natal (SAF) K Nadauld, S Reece, V Hall (c), B Upton, K Chamberlain, E Dickson, L Grunsell, B Gibson, I Palmer, G Stewart, J Carr Goal : Palmer 15' Stewart |
2 | - | 1 | Australia Norman Conquest, Cyrill Nicholls, Cec Drummond, Bob Lawrie (c), Tom Jack, Bob Young, George Sanders, Allan Johns, Gordon Nunn, Eric Hulme, Harry Robertson Goal : Lawrie 55' |
| Attendance : 13,000 Coach : Tom Jack (Australia) | ||||
| Played : Wednesday June 7 1950 | Venue : Bloemfontein, South Africa | |||
| Orange Free State (SAF)
(Lineup incomplete) Nicholas (GK) Goals : (scorer unavailable) pen |
1 | - | 2 | Australia Bill Mahoney, Cyril Nichols, Cec Drummond, Bob Lawrie (c), Tom Jack, Bob Young, George Sanders, Allan Johns, Frank Parsons, Eric Hulme, Harry Robertson Goals : Johns 10' Parsons |
| Coach : Tom Jack (Australia) | ||||
| Played : Saturday June 10 1950 | Venue : Benoni, South Africa | |||
| Eastern Transvaal (SAF)
Jimmy Pickerill, G Gloete, J Preston, G Penn, P Driver, V Ferreira, Ray Botha, Harold Paton, S Westcott, N Turner, N Welman Reserves: Ray Ferreira, Blewett Goals : Botha 10'pen (2nd scorer unavailable) |
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- | 2 | Australia (Lineup incomplete) Bill Mahoney, Cec Drummond, Tom Jack, Eric Hulme, Allan Johns, Frank Parsons, Harry Robertson Goals : Robertson, Jack 86pen |
| Attendance : 15,000 Coach : Tom Jack (Australia) | ||||
| Australia then travelled north to Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) where they played two matches against the Southern Rhodesian side. These games are considered B matches, mainly because considerable doubt exist that these were full 'A' games. | ||||
| Played Wednesday June 14 1950 | Venue : Salisbury, Rhodesia | |||
| Southern Rhodesia (RHO)
Blair, Fitzgerald, Johnson, Prescott, Wood, Coop, Davies, Ball, Lewis, Buchanan, Law |
0 | - | 5 | Australia Norman Conquest, Kevin O'Neill, Bob Young, Bob Lawrie (c), Tom Jack, Jack Smith, George Sanders, Allan Johns, Frank Parsons, Eric Hulme, Harry Robertson Goals : Johns (x2), Hulme (x2), Parsons 51' |
| Attendance : 6,000 Coach : Tom Jack (Australia) | ||||
| Played : Saturday June 17 1950 | Venue : Bulawayo, Rhodesia | |||
| Southern Rhodesia (RHO)
Bell, Fitzgerald, Johnson, Prescott, Wood, Coop, Davies, Ball, Badenhorst, Kirkpatrick, Law Goal : Badenhorst |
1 | - | 4 | Australia Norman Conquest, Cyril Nicholls, Cec Drummond, Bob Lawrie, Tom Jack, Bob Young, George Sanders, Allan Johns, Frank Parsons, Eric Hulme, Harry Robertson Goals : Sanders (x2), Johns, Hulme |
| Coach : Tom Jack (Australia) | ||||
| The Australian team then returned to South Africa where they played some further enagements including four "tests" against the Souh African national side (see A archive). | ||||
| Played : June 21 1950 | Venue : Maritzburg, South Africa | |||
| Natal (SAF)
(lineup incomplete) Brian Gibson, Carr, Little Goals : Carr, Little (3rd scorer unavailable) |
3 | - | 2 | Australia (Lineup incomplete) Bill Mahoney (GK), Allan Johns Goals : (scorers unavailable) |
| Coach : Tom Jack (Australia) | ||||
| Played : June 28 1950 | Venue : Wilbaulk, South Africa | |||
| North Transvaal Country (SAF)
(Lineup unavailable) |
0 | - | 9 | Australia (Lineup incomplete) Allan Johns Goals : (scorers unavailable) |
| Coach : Tom Jack (Australia) | ||||
| Played : July 12 1950 | Venue : Kimberley, South Africa | |||
| Griqualand West (SAF)
(Lineup and scorers unavailable) |
3 | - | 7 | Australia (Lineup incomplete) Allan Johns Goals : (scorers unavailable) |
| Coach : Tom Jack (Australia) | ||||
| Played : July 15 1950 | Venue : East London, South Africa | |||
| Fronteir (SAF) (Lineup unavailable) |
0 | - | 4 | Australia (Lineup incomplete) Allan Johns Goals : (scorers unavailable) |
| Coach : Tom Jack (Australia) | ||||
| Played : Wednesday July 19 1950 | Venue : Mossee Bay, South Africa | |||
| South Western Country (SAF)
(Lineup unavailable) |
0 | - | 13 | Australia (Lineup incomplete) Allan Johns Goals : (scorers unavailable) |
| Coach : Tom Jack (Australia) | ||||
| Played : Tuesday July 25 1950 | Venue : Capetown, South Africa | |||
| Western Province (SAF)
(Lineup and scorers unavailable) |
3 | - | 3 | Australia (Lineup incomplete) Allan Johns Goals : (scorers unavailable) |
| Coach : Tom Jack (Australia) | ||||
| When Australia returned home from their tour of South Africa they played a number of games against the representative sides of states. The first of the these was Western Australia. | ||||
| Played : Thursday August 17 1950 | Venue : Subiaco Oval, Perth, Australia | |||
| Australia Norman Conquest, Kevin O'Neill, Cec Drummond, Bob Lawrie (c), Tom Jack, Bob Young, Allan Johns, Frank Parsons, George Sanders, Gordon Nunn, Harry Robertson Goals : Cherry 32' Own Goal, Nunn 43', -', Parsons, Hulme |
5 | - | 1 | Western Australia Syd McGovern, Ron Adair, G Nash, J Grant, R Cherry (c), S Johnstone, Jack Smethurst, A Robertson (vc), E Hughes, A Beale, H Norman Goal : Robertson |
| Referee : A Gilchrist (Australia) Managers : T Johnstone and HGH Barwick (Australia), AF Craigie (Western Australia) | ||||
| The next game was against South Australia, played during the time it took to unload and load cargo on their ship "Arawa". | ||||
| Played : Saturday August 26 1950 | Venue : Kilburn, Adelaide, Australia | |||
| Australia Bill Mahoney, Kevin O'Neill, Cec Drummmond, Bob Lawrie (c), Tom Jack, Bob Young, Eric Hulme, Allan Johns, Gordon Nunn, Frank Parsons, Harry Robertson Goals : Nunn (x3), Johns (x2), Robertson |
6 | - | 0 | South Australia (Lineup incomplete) Giancaspro, Heffernan, Thompson, Combe, Zivic, J Freckleton, W Grace, Cranswick |
| The stopover by the "Arawa" was not long enough to allow a game against the Victorian team. On their return from the Western States they played two games against NSW, the first in Sydney. | ||||
| Played : Saturday September 2 1950 | Venue : Sydney Sportsground, Australia | |||
| Australia Norman Conquest, Kevin O'Neill, Cec Drummond, Bob Lawrie (c), Tom Jack, Bob Young, George Sanders, Alan Johns, Gordon Nunn, Frank Parsons, Harry Robertson |
0 | - | 3 | New South Wales Ron Lord, Cliff Almond, Doug Wendt, Eric Duff, Bill Wilson (c), Milija Vesovic, Ernie Kemp, George Russell, Reg Date, Jock McMahon, Ray Marshall Goals : Marshall, Date, Jack Own Goal |
| Referee : Jack McKenzie (Australia) Crowd : 6000 | ||||
| Australia then played the second match against NSW | ||||
| Played : September 3 1950 | Venue : Crystal Palace Ground, Wallsend, Australia | |||
| Australia (Probable lineup) Bill Mahoney, Kevin O'Neill, Cec Drummond, Bob Lawrie (c), Tom Jack, Bob Young, Eric Hulme, Alan Johns, Gordon Nunn, Frank Parsons, Harry Robertson Goals : Parsons 10' Johns 24' |
2 | - | 1 | New South Wales Ron Lord, Cliff Almond, Doug Wendt, Bob Bignall, Bill Wilson (c), Milija Vesovic, Ernie Kemp, George Russell, Reg Date, Jock McMahon, Ray Marshall Goal : Russell |
| Crowd : 6000 | ||||