Full time7 September 1963
Boet Erasmus Stadium, Port Elizabeth, South Africa · Tour 1963Head-to-head
South Africa won by 16 points.
Scoring
- –CSouth Africa conversion · Keith Oxlee2–0
- –CSouth Africa conversion · Keith Oxlee4–0
- –PSouth Africa penalty · Keith Oxlee7–0
- –PSouth Africa penalty · Tiny Naude10–0
- –PSouth Africa penalty · Keith Oxlee13–0
- –TSouth Africa try · John Gainsford16–0
- –TSouth Africa try · Tiny Naude19–0
- –TSouth Africa try · Abie Malan22–0
- –PAustralia penalty · Terry Casey22–3
- –DAustralia drop goal · Phillip Hawthorne22–6
Line-ups
South Africa
- 1Mof MyburghProp
- 2Abie MalanHooker
- 3Dick PutterProp
- 4Stompie Van der MerweSecond row
- 5Tiny NaudeSecond row
- 6Haas SchoemanFlanker
- 7Tommy BedfordFlanker
- 8Douglas HopwoodNumber 8
- 9Nelie SmithScrum-half
- 10Keith OxleeFly-half
- 11Corra DirksenWing
- 12John GainsfordCentre
- 13Dave StewartCentre
- 14Gert CilliersWing
- 15Lionel WilsonFull-back
Australia
- 1Jonathan WhiteProp
- 2Peter JohnsonHooker
- 3John ThornettProp
- 4Robin HemingSecond row
- 5Peter CrittleSecond row
- 6Jules GuerassimoffFlanker
- 7Greg DavisFlanker
- 8John O'GormanNumber 8
- 9Ken CatchpoleScrum-half
- 10Phillip HawthorneFly-half
- 11Jim BoyceWing
- 12Beresford EllwoodCentre
- 13Richard MarksCentre
- 14John WilliamsWing
- 15Terry CaseyFull-back
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Context
All-time, South Africa 55–41 Australia, 3 drawn in 99 scored Tests. Full head-to-head
South Africa going in
Australia going in
- Previous meeting: 24 August 1963, South Africa 9–11 Australia
- Next meeting on record: 19 June 1965
Also on this day
Results to 27 September 2026. Scoring and line-ups come from World Rugby match summaries where available; older Tests may have neither.