Captain: Bob Hiller

The Sixth Springboks will always be known as the Protest Tour but there was some rugby played – 25 games in fact – and it did include one memorable Test at Twickenham which resulted in England’s first ever win over the Springboks.
England, tiring of ritual hammerings, had taken the radical step of organising a series of squad training sessions every Sunday morning for a month before the game, usually at Welford Road or Coundon Road, Coventry. Rather self-consciously they had also appointed the first ever England coach – Don White – and ta...