The 1973 Australia rugby union tour of Europe was a series of nine matches played by the Australia national rugby union team (the Wallabies) in England and Wales in October and November 1973. The Wallabies won only of three of their matches, lost five and drew the other one; they lost both of their international matches, against Wales and England. The final match with Italy, is not considered as a capped Test match by Australian Rugby Union.
Matches Scores and results list Australia's points tally first. Opposing Team For Against Date Venue Metropolitan Counties 17 15 24 October Bournemouth South and South-West Counties 14 15 27 October Recreation Ground, Bath East Wales 11 19 31 October Rodney Parade, Newport Swansea 9 9 3 November St. Helen's, Swansea West Wales 18 13 6 November Talbot Athletic Ground, Port Talbot WALES 0 24 10 November Cardiff Arms Park, Cardiff Northern Counties 13 16 13 November Gosforth ENGLAND 3 20 17 November Twickenham London Italy 59 21 21 November Stadio Fattori L'Aquila
Touring party Manager: John Freedman Assistant manager: Bob Templeton Captain: Peter Sullivan
Backs
Dave Burnet David L'Estrange Russell Fairfax Rod Hauser John Hipwell Arthur McGill Laurie Monaghan Geoff Richardson Owen Stephens Jeff McLean Peter Rowles Geoff Shaw
Forwards
Bruce Battishall Chris Carberry Dick Cocks Garrick Fay Mick Freney Ron Graham Stuart Gregory Jake Howard Stuart Macdougall Ken McCurrach Tony Shaw Reg Smith Peter Sullivan
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