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Description: | A year after record breaking crowds turned out to watch the 1905 New Zealand touring side it was the South African rugby team's turn to thrill English rugby fans. Almost every game they played attracted huge numbers. This programme for the December 1906 match was played at Crystal Palace, before the England team had its own home ground. Crystal Palace was the largest stadium in its day and provided enough space to accommodate the expected number of fans. The match was played in dreadful conditions; one journalist wrote that the South Africans "shivered like stray dogs at a street corner". The teams went on to draw the match 3-3. | License: | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/2.5/ | Publisher: | World Rugby Museum | Rights holder: | World Rugby Museum | Subjects: | Sport | Temporal: | 1906 | Source: | World Rugby Museum | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Go to resource |
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