Doc Craven's Tibute The legends of Springbok Rugby 1889 - 1989

Doc Craven's Tribute The Legends of Springbok Rugby 1889-1989 - Edited by K Clayton - Standard first edition - Privately published, December 1989 - 232p - Prefusely illustrated in colour and black & white - Includes 130 facsimlie signatures of players -  Alphabetical index of players - Hardcover and dustcover in very good condition - Internally clean and tightly bound; first page has been trimmed out.

Contents:

• Acknowledgements

• Foreword

• Additional foreword by the editor/publisher

• Index of players

• Introduction

• Editor's note

• Autographs

• The three periods of our history

• The Captains

• The individual players

• The unfortunates

• The youngest Springbok

• The greatest teams to leave our shores

• The Springboks today

Additional foreword is to assist reader in following the sequence of the boob:

1. The Captains: Doc Craven insisted, and quite rightly so, that every player who had been appointed as a Springbok captain should be appear in the book. After all, as Doc says: "They were the men who lead us to glory"

2. The individual players: As in the case of the captains each individual player appears in the sequence that he was selected to play for his country.

3. The Springboks today: Although this chapter forms the last part of the book it is probably the most fascinating. Many of the Springboks countrywide were kind enough to send me up-to-date photographs of themselves and their families.