Full time17 May 1953
Venue not recordedHead-to-head
Italy won by 18 points.
Scoring
- 7’TItaly try · Paolo Dari0–3
- 13’TGermany try · Hubert Rendelmann3–3
- 52’TItaly try · Paolo Dari3–6
- 59’CItaly conversion · Piero Marini3–8
- 59’TItaly try · Paolo Dari3–11
- 70’CItaly conversion · Piero Marini3–13
- 70’TItaly try · Paolo Rosi3–16
- 79’CItaly conversion · Piero Marini3–18
- 79’TItaly try · Sergio Lanfranchi3–21
Line-ups
Germany
- 1Rolf GrossProp
- 2Dr Armin NiebelHooker
- 3Willi MelcherProp
- 4Herbert WegenerSecond row
- 5Ewald ZapfeSecond row
- 6PlatteFlanker
- 7Otto WucherpfenningFlanker
- 8Gunter JagerNumber 8
- 9Friedel BukovskiScrum-half
- 10Hermann SchwarzeFly-half
- 11Werner OhlheiserWing
- 12Kuno BirkCentre
- 13Hubert RendelmannCentre
- 14Karl WiegmannWing
- 15Heinz MonpetainFull-back
Italy
- 1Luciano TurcatoProp
- 2Gennaro ManciniHooker
- 3Giorgio FornariProp
- 4Paolo DariSecond row
- 5Leonardi RiccioniSecond row
- 6Sergio LanfranchiFlanker
- 7Sergio BarilariFlanker
- 8Gianfranco ZanchiNumber 8
- 9Mario PisaneschiScrum-half
- 10Piero MariniFly-half
- 11Enzo GerosaWing
- 12Romano BettarelloCentre
- 13Paolo RosiCentre
- 14Pietro StievanoWing
- 15Nando BarbiniFull-back
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Context
All-time, Germany 4–15 Italy, 1 drawn in 20 scored Tests. Full head-to-head
Germany going in
Italy going in
- Previous meeting: 27 April 1952, Germany 6–14 Italy
- Next meeting on record: 13 March 1955
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.