1950 British Lions touring team to Australia and New Zealand signed British Isles Rugby Union letterhead, with b & w team photograph, featuring approx. 33 player signatures in black ink, including captain Karl Mullen, George Norton, E.L. Savage, Don Hayward and others, below a b & w team photograph with typed legend, mounted, framed and glazed, 51 by 31cm. overall This 1950 team was the first to be nicknamed the "British Lions” rather than just “British Isles” and sported new re-designed jerseys. They won 22 and drew one of the 29 matches played during their Southern Hemisphere tour.
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1950 British Lions touring team to Australia and New Zealand signed British Isles Rugby Union letterhead, with b & w team photograph, featuring approx. 33 player signatures in black ink, including captain Karl Mullen, George Norton, E.L. Savage, Don Hayward and others, below a b & w team photograph with typed legend, mounted, framed and glazed, 51 by 31cm. overall This 1950 team was the first to be nicknamed the "British Lions” rather than just “British Isles” and sported new re-designed jerseys. They won 22 and drew one of the 29 matches played during their Southern Hemisphere tour.