Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { ?s ?p "The 1888 British Isles tour to New Zealand and Australia was a series of rugby union games played by an unofficial British team, known at the time as the \"English Footballers\", against invitational teams in New Zealand and Australia. Although a private venture, this series of games was the first major tour of the Southern Hemisphere undertaken by a European team, and would pave the way for future tours which eventually manifested as the British Lions. The team boarded the SS Kaikoura at Gravesend on 9 March, returning to England on the same ship on 11 November. The team's legacy was honoured by the International Rugby Board in 2013 when the team, along with initial captain Robert Seddon, were inducted into the IRB Hall of Fame.Unlike the next tour to South Africa in 1891, many publications do not retrospectively class this tour as a British Lions tour, officially or unofficially. From the tour, only four players were capped, or would be capped for their countries; Seddon, Andrew Stoddart and Tom Kent for England, and Willie Thomas for Wales."@en }
Showing triples 1 to 1 of
1
with 100 triples per page.
- 1888_British_Lions_tour_to_New_Zealand_and_Australia abstract "The 1888 British Isles tour to New Zealand and Australia was a series of rugby union games played by an unofficial British team, known at the time as the \"English Footballers\", against invitational teams in New Zealand and Australia. Although a private venture, this series of games was the first major tour of the Southern Hemisphere undertaken by a European team, and would pave the way for future tours which eventually manifested as the British Lions. The team boarded the SS Kaikoura at Gravesend on 9 March, returning to England on the same ship on 11 November. The team's legacy was honoured by the International Rugby Board in 2013 when the team, along with initial captain Robert Seddon, were inducted into the IRB Hall of Fame.Unlike the next tour to South Africa in 1891, many publications do not retrospectively class this tour as a British Lions tour, officially or unofficially. From the tour, only four players were capped, or would be capped for their countries; Seddon, Andrew Stoddart and Tom Kent for England, and Willie Thomas for Wales.".