PETER JACKSON

Miss: Van der Schyff hangs his head

No touring team in any theatre of global sport can match the Lions for outrageous storylines, like the one about the crocodile hunter snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.
Jack van der Schyff paid a severe price for letting the Lions off the hook at the end of the opening Test at Ellis Park in 1955, his missed conversion considered grave enough for the Springbok selectors to give their fullback the last rites before he had time to shower.
From then on, poor old Jack had carte blanche to do the same to the crocs in the Limpopo and Zam...