page_title: 1947–48 Australia rugby union tour of Britain, Ireland, France and North America
section_title: Touring party
hierarchical_section_title: 1947–48 Australia rugby union tour of Britain, Ireland, France and North America / Touring party
caption_attribution_description: Footballer Cyril Burke returns from Wallabies 1953 South African tour
context_page_description: Between July 1947 and March 1948 the Australia national rugby union team – the Wallabies – conducted a world tour encompassing Ceylon, Britain, Ireland, France and the United States on which they played five Tests and thirty-six minor tour matches. It was the first such tour in twenty years, since that of the 1927–28 Waratahs, as the 1939–40 Australia rugby union tour of Britain and Ireland tour had been thwarted by World War II. They were known as the Third Wallabies.
  The 1947–48 side was notable in preserving their try-line uncrossed by any of the Home Nations in the first four Tests played. The nine-month journey was one of the last of that era of epic tours when transport was mostly by ship and when the tourists were whole-heartedly welcomed by rugby fans and townships, civic officials and royalty.
  The Australians in those days were still showcasing the new running style of rugby that had not yet been fully embraced in the northern hemisphere. The legacy of Johnnie Wallace's leadership of 1927–28, of Cyril Towers and the credo of galloping rugby as played at his Randwick club in Sydney had some bearing on this.
context_section_description: Manager: Arnold Tancred
  Tour secretary: Jeff Noseda
  Captain: Bill McLean
  Vice-captain: Trevor Allan
caption: Cyril Burke & family.
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