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1936 British Lions tour to Argentina

Field	Value
date	15 July – 23 August
coach	ENG Doug Prentice
captain	ENG Bernard Gadney
test series winners	British Isles
result	1–0
top test point scorer	ENG John Brett (7)
preceded by	New Zealand and Australia 1930
succeeded by	South Africa 1938
matchplayed	10
matchwon	10
matchdraw	0
matchlost	0
testplayed	1
testwon	1
testdraw	0
testlost	0
opponent1
played1	1
won1	1
draw1	0
lost1	0

|top test point scorer = ENG John Brett (7) |top test try scorer =

The 1936 British Lions tour of Argentina was a series of rugby union matches arranged between the British Lions and various Argentine teams. The tourists played ten matches, nine of which were against club and combined teams while one match took in a full Argentina national team. Despite being sanctioned by the International Rugby Board, no caps were awarded to players from either side.

This was the third and final international tour to South America by a combined British team, and although classed as the British Lions, it was predominantly English, with a handful of Scottish and Irish players.

The Lions won all the games played, scoring 399 points and conceding only 12.

Background

By 1936 Argentine rugby was in expansion and growth. Four years earlier, the Junior Springboks had visited the country to play several matches. In 1933 two South African players, Wollie Wolheim and Rybeck Elliot returned to Argentina to play for local team Hindú, which was considered by the Argentine Union as a sort of professionalism and Hindú was suspended for one season.

In 1935 eleven players of San Isidro (the most important rugby team of Argentina by then) were suspended by the club executives. The banned players organised some friendly matches under the name "Abelleyra XV" until they established a new institution, San Isidro Club.

The last Lions tour to Argentina came when former player Douglas Prentice, who had led the team during their tour to New Zealand an Australia in 1930 and was the current manager, arrived with twenty-three players. No Welsh players were part of the team despite Wales had won the Home Nations that year.

The British played only one test v. Argentina at Gimnasia y Esgrima, with a record attendance of 15,000, on August 16. The Lions won by 23–0. The Argentine line-up for that game was Héctor Alfonso; R. Elliot, Herbert Talbot, Horacio Pascuali, Emilio Schiavio; Percy Talbot, Noel Cooper; Jorge Cilley, Gilbert Logan, José Frigoli; J.L. Francombe (cap), Tomás Salzman; Bernardo Mitchelstein, Víctor Inchausti, Archie Cameron.

Belgrano was the only team to score a try against The Lions, when the visiting team won by 37–3.

Touring party

Doug Prentice (Leicester), Manager
Dr. Hugh Llewellyn Glyn Hughes (Blackheath), Referee

Players

Bernard Gadney (Leicester) Captain
Charles Beamish (Leicester)
John Brett (Oxford University)
Vesey Boyle (Dublin University).
John Gordon A'Bear (Gloucester)
Owen Chadwick (Cambridge University)
Paul Cooke (Oxford University)
Pop Dunkley Harlequins)
George Hancock (Birkenhead Park)
Peter Hobbs (Richmond)
Peter Hordern (Gloucester)
Fred Huskisson (Old Merchant Taylors)
Tom Knowles (Birkenhead Park)
J. S. Moll (Lloyds Bank)
Alexander Obolensky (Oxford University)
Denis Pratten (Blackheath)
Robin Prescott (Harlequins)
Wilson Shaw (Glasgow High School)
John Tallent (Blackheath)
Harold Uren (Waterloo)
Jim Unwin (Rosslyn Park)
Jock Waters (Selkirk)
Bill Weston (Northampton)

;Notes

Match summary

Complete list of matches played by the British Isles in Argentina:

Test match

The Lions v. Argentina national team, played on 16 August at GEBA

#	Date	Rival	Score	Venue	City
1	15 Jul	Buenos Aires F.C.	55–0	Gimnasia y Esgrima	Buenos Aires
2	18 Jul	Argentina A	27–0	Gimnasia y Esgrima	Buenos Aires
3	22 Jul	Olivos	27–3	Gimnasia y Esgrima	Buenos Aires
4	26 Jul	Argentina B	28–0	Gimnasia y Esgrima	Buenos Aires
5	29 Jul	Pacific Railway	62–0	Gimnasia y Esgrima	Buenos Aires
6	2 Aug	Litoral Rugby Union	41–0	Plaza Jewell	Rosario
7	5 Aug	Old Georgian	55–6	Gimnasia y Esgrima	Buenos Aires
8	9 Aug	Belgrano A.C.	37–3	Gimnasia y Esgrima	Buenos Aires
9	16 Aug		23–0	Gimnasia y Esgrima	Buenos Aires
10	23 Aug	CASI–Hindú–CUBA Combined	44–0	Gimnasia y Esgrima	Buenos Aires

Pl	W	D	L	Ps	Pc
10	10	0	0	399	12

Match details

Argentina Test

Tallent Unwin

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Bernardo Mitchelstein	P	1	P	Robin Prescott

References

(June 2017). "La Unión de Rugby del Río de la Plata". UAR.com.
"1936 Argentina". lionsrugby.com.
[http://www.periodismo-rugby.com.ar/2017/06/01/lions-tercer-viaje-olvidado/ Lions (tercer viaje olvidado)] by Ricardo Sabanes on Periodismo Rugby website, 1 Jun 2017
[http://www.lanacion.com.ar/720582-sic-el-alumbramiento SIC: El alumbramiento], ''La Nación'', 12 July 2005
[http://www.rugbyfootballhistory.com/lions_results.html British & Irish Lions results] on Rugby Football History
[https://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/rugby_union/international/4428407.stm Early Lions: Squads and results (1888–1938)] on BBC Sport, 18 May 2005
[http://www.espnscrum.com/scrum/rugby/match/19527.html Match report Great Britain XV tour - Buenos Aires, 16 August 1936]

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