Once Were Lions: The Players’ Stories: Inside the World’s Most Famous Rugby Team
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Jeff Connor. Once Were Lions: The Players’ Stories: Inside the World’s Most Famous Rugby Team
CONTENTS
FOREWORD By Finlay Calder OBE Captain, the British and Irish Lions in Australia, 1989
PREFACE THE MEN WHO ONCE WERE LIONS
CHAPTER ONE FIRST TWENTY YEARS OF THE LIONS 1888–1908
CHAPTER TWO THEN THEY WERE LIONS 1910–1938
CHAPTER THREE KARL MULLEN’S HAPPY BAND Australia and New Zealand 1950
CHAPTER FOUR ROBIN THOMPSON’S QUALITY STREET GANG South Africa 1955
CHAPTER FIVE RONNIE DAWSON’S PROUD SQUAD Australia, New Zealand and Canada 1959
CHAPTER SIX ARTHUR SMITH’S BIG BOYS DIDN’T CRY South Africa 1962
CHAPTER SEVEN MIKE CAMPBELL-LAMERTON AND HOW THE LIONS WERE MAULED Australia, New Zealand and Canada 1966
CHAPTER EIGHT TOM KIERNAN’S FROLICSOME BRIGADE South Africa 1968
CHAPTER NINE JOHN DAWES AND THE GREAT REVIVAL New Zealand and Australia 1971
CHAPTER TEN WILLIE JOHN McBRIDE’S LEGENDS South Africa 1974
CHAPTER ELEVEN PHIL BENNETT’S BAD NEWS BOYS New Zealand and Fiji 1977
CHAPTER TWELVE BILL BEAUMONT AND THE BAD LUCK TOUR South Africa 1980
CHAPTER THIRTEEN CIARAN FITZGERALD’S MEN CUT DOWN New Zealand 1983
CHAPTER FOURTEEN FINLAY CALDER: NO COMPROMISE Australia 1989
CHAPTER FIFTEEN GAVIN HASTINGS AND THE TALE OF TWO TOURS New Zealand 1993
CHAPTER SIXTEEN MARTIN JOHNSON’S MARVELS South Africa 1997
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN SCRIBBLERS FOR MARTIN JOHNSON’S LIONS Australia 2001
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN SPEARED BY THE ALL BLACKS:BRIAN O’DRISCOLL New Zealand 2005
CHAPTER NINETEEN LIONS FOR EVER
INDEX
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C
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ROLL OF HONOUR AND ARCHIVE OF RESULTS. 1888—NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA
1891—SOUTH AFRICA
1896—SOUTH AFRICA
1899—AUSTRALIA
1903—SOUTH AFRICA
1904—AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
1908—NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA
1910—SOUTH AFRICA
1924—SOUTH AFRICA
1930—NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA
1938—SOUTH AFRICA
1950—NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA
1955—SOUTH AFRICA
1959—AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND and CANADA
1962—SOUTH AFRICA
1966—AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND and CANADA
1968—SOUTH AFRICA
1971—NEW ZEALAND AND AUSTRALIA
1974—SOUTH AFRICA
1977—NEW ZEALAND AND FIJI
1980—SOUTH AFRICA
1983—NEW ZEALAND
1989—AUSTRALIA
1993—NEW ZEALAND
1997—SOUTH AFRICA
2001—AUSTRALIA
2005—NEW ZEALAND
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ONCE WERE LIONS
Jeff Connor & Martin Hannan
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Sadly, his health failed as a result of his wartime injuries, and he began to drink heavily and developed diabetes. His private practice in London failed, and he was declared bankrupt shortly before his death in 1923, aged just 49. You will read in this book of how life after the Lions has often been an anti-climax for individual players, but that could not be said of war hero Crean.
It was said at one time that the two most famous men in South Africa were Cecil Rhodes and Tom Crean. Crean’s heroism as a player and in combat were not forgotten—in the third of their special Boer War centenary commemorative stamps issued by the South African Post Office in 2001, he was one of two people honoured with their own stamp.
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