1949 in Sports - Rugby Union

Rugby Union

Five Nations Championship

  • 55th Five Nations Championship series is won by Ireland
  • 3 September – "blackest day" in All Blacks history as two Test matches are lost on the same day: 6–11 at home to the Wallabies; and 3–9 on tour to South Africa.

Read more about this topic:  1949 In Sports

Famous quotes containing the word union:

    It would be unjust, and moreover Utopian, for Shakespeare to direct the shoemakers’ union. But it would be equally disastrous for the shoemakers’ union to ignore Shakespeare.
    Albert Camus (1913–1960)