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The 1912–13 South Africa rugby union tour was a collection of friendly rugby union games undertaken by the South Africa national rugby union team against England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales and France. The tour also took in several matches against British and Irish club, county and invitational teams. This was the second South African tour of the Northern Hemisphere, after the very successful 1906 tour.
Although not managing to win all the matches on the tour, the Springboks managed to win all five test matches against international opposition. Billy Millar was the tour captain even though he was the last person chosen for the tour and was not the selectors' choice of captain, but they were over-ruled by the South African Rugby Board. Millar did have the advantage of being one of the few players to have toured Britain in the previous test, but was seen by the hosts as a fiery character and was not as popular with the players or fans as the 1906's tour captain, Paul Roos. The other two members of the squad to have played in the 1906 tour were vice-captain Fred 'Uncle' Dobbin and Doug Morkel.
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Springboks - Outgoing squad
- Frederick James Dobbin
- Joseph Adrian Jooste Francis
- Jacobus Hendrik Immelman
- Arnold Sedgfield Knight
- Septimus Heyns Ledger
- Richard Robins Luyt
- Frederick Pieter Luyt
- John Douglas Luyt
- Frederick Pieter Luyt
- John Douglas Luyt
- John Duncan McCulloch
- Evelyn Edgar McHardy
- William Alexander Millar
- Pieter Gerhard Morkel
- Douglas Francis Theodore Morkel
- Jan Willem Hurter Morkel
- William Herman Morkel
- Ernest Hamilton Shum
- Johannes Augustus Stegmann
- Gerald Thompson
- Thomas Frederik Jansen Van Vuuren