Grand Slam tours

Grand Slam tours

This feat has been achieved four times by nrut|South Africa, twice by New Zealand and once by nrut|Australia, who are the only Southern Hemisphere team to suffer a Grand Slam of defeats against the Home Nations, in 1957–58.

South Africa are the only team to have achieved the Grand Slam against the Five Nations: in the tours of 1912–13 and 1951–52 they also played, and defeated, France.

External links

* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/rugby_union/international/3984061.stm BBC News article on past Grand Slam tours]


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