Springbok Rugby History, Chapter 1

Johan Jooste is a very enthusiastic and passionate Springbok rugby supporter of the
amateur era. Like most like-minded enthusiasts who grew up long before the advent of
television, he used to listen to radio commentary when he was still a teenager. And as
many young kids of the time in the middle sixties, did not have the opportunity to go and
watch the Springboks play, they collected pictures and stories of their heroes for their
scrapbooks which was very popular in those days for young and old.
The idea to compile a record of all Springbok international matches into one document
which should include video and audio clips, was very appealing as there was and still is
as far as we know, not something like that available for the public. Now every test match
can be admired as it is compiled in a series of the years that the Springboks played international
rugby from 1891 up to 1996 when the game turned professional.
The document is available as individual series (like 1891, 1896, 1903 etc.) or in Chapters
which from 1949 onwards is compiled as decades. When completed, all the series’ will
also be available as PDF files in
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one digital book. At this stage there is no plan to make a
printed book.
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