The 1970s: multiple tours History of the Argentina national rugby union team
the forward line of 1970: garcía yáñez, handley , foster
through 1970s, argentina confirmed steady rise towards top-tier status under influence of first world-class player, fly-half hugo porta.
in 1971 argentina made second tour on south africa included series of 14 matches played in june , july. pumas didn t play against springboks (playing meanwhile in australia, againnts gazelles, selection of emerging under-23 players). scheduled match in rhodesia, cancelled after prohibition of argentine government. argentina won 9 games, being defeated 4 times. line-up v. gazelles d. morgan; m. pascual, r. matarazzo, a. rodríguez jurado (h), a. travaglini; r. espagnol, g. blaksley; h. silva (c), j. wittman, n. carbone; b. otaño, a. anthony; r. foster, r. handley, l. garcía yáñez.
two years later los pumas went on tour ireland , scotland, playing 8 matches in october , november. argentina won 2 games, losing 4 2 draws. in matches v. national sides, argentina lost ireland 21–8 on november 10. other game vs national team v. scotland, 14 days later, argentina lost 12–11.
the second argentine tour on europe came in 1975 when team played 7 matches in france during october. argentina won 3 matches, 4 losses, 2 of them vs. france national team (29–6 , 36–21). 1 year later argentina went on tour around wales , england play 6 matches. during tour, pumas came tantalizingly close historic victory @ cardiff arms park on wales, dominant force in northern hemisphere. phil bennett penalty on foul gabriel travaglini @ death allowed welsh escape 20–19 victory. line-up argentina v. wales martin sansot; daniel beccar varela, alejandro travaglini, gonzalo beccar varela, jorge gauweloose; hugo porta, adolfo etchegaray (c); jorge carracedo, ricardo mastai, carlos neyra; josé fernández, eliseo branca; rito iraneta, jose costante, fernando insúa. argentina played total of 6 matches, winning 3 3 losses. of club teams argentina faced cardiff , aberavon.
the team beat australia in 1979 in buenos aires.
two years later argentina returned competitions tour on england, ireland , italy. team held virtually full-strength england xv 13–13 draw, before losing 6–19 italy in first test match between them. argentine played wales b team, being beat 17–14. tour captain, hugo porta, played 9 games, scored 94 of team s 157 points on tour , established himself 1 of world s great players on tour.
the last tour of argentine side in 1979 when team trip new zealand play series of 9 games. argentina won 6 of them, losing 3 games. on september 18, argentina played blacks first time in history. match, held @ carisbrook, won new zealand 18-9. argentine line-up martín sansot; adolfo cappelletti, marcelo loffreda, rafael madero, marcelo ocampo; hugo porta, alfredo soares gache; gabriel travaglini, tomas petersen, héctor silva; marcos iachetti, alejandro iachetti; enrique rodriguez, javier pérez cobo, hugo nicola. second test-match, played 1 week later, ended in new victory new zealand 15–6.
that same year, australian side toured on argentina first time. during october , november, australia played series of 7 games. in first test match, argentina defeated australia 24–13 on october 27 @ ferro carril oeste stadium. in second game (played on november 3) argentina defeated 17–12.
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