Full time20 December 1947
Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff, Wales · Tour 1947Head-to-head
Wales won by 6 points.
Scoring
- –PWales penalty · Bill Tamplin3–0
- –PWales penalty · Bill Tamplin6–0
Line-ups
Wales
- 1Emlyn DaviesProp
- 2Maldwyn JamesHooker
- 3Cliff DaviesProp
- 4Bill TamplinSecond row
- 5John GwilliamSecond row
- 6Ossie WilliamsFlanker
- 7Gwyn EvansFlanker
- 8Les ManfieldNumber 8
- 9Handel GrevilleScrum-half
- 10Glyn DaviesFly-half
- 11Les WilliamsWing
- 12Jack MatthewsCentre
- 13Bleddyn WilliamsCentre
- 14Ken JonesWing
- 15Billy CleaverFull-back
Australia
- 1Robert McMasterProp
- 2Kenny KearneyHooker
- 3Eric DavisProp
- 4Graham CookeSecond row
- 5Donald KraefftSecond row
- 6Douglas KellerFlanker
- 7Colin WindonFlanker
- 8Arthur BuchanNumber 8
- 9Cyril BurkeScrum-half
- 10Neville EmeryFly-half
- 11Terence MacBrideWing
- 12Max HowellCentre
- 13Trevor AllanCentre
- 14Arthur TonkinWing
- 15Brian PiperFull-back
Match officials
Sample data- Referee
- Sample Referee
- Assistant referee
- Sample Assistant 1
- Assistant referee
- Sample Assistant 2
- TMO
- Sample TMO
Sample data Match officials is placeholder content: TheBreakdown has no data source for it yet, so nothing here is real.
Context
All-time, Wales 14–34 Australia, 1 drawn in 49 scored Tests. Full head-to-head
Wales going in
Australia going in
- Previous meeting: 26 November 1927, Wales 8–18 Australia
- Next meeting on record: 4 January 1958
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.