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The 1951–52 South Africa tour of Britain, Ireland and France was a collection of friendly rugby union games undertaken by the South Africa national rugby union team against the four British Home Nation teams and France. The tour also took in several matches against British, Irish and French club, county and invitational teams. This was the sixth South Africa tour and the fourth tour of the Northern Hemisphere. It was also the first time the South Africans played the invitational British Barbarian team.
The tour was the most successful the South African team had undertaken; the team only lost a single match. In the tests played the team beat all four Home Nations, France and the Barbarians. The only team to beat the Springboks was the invitational London Counties team. The final tour record saw 31 matches played, with South Africa winning 30 and losing just the one game.
Springboks - Outgoing squad
- Willem Hendrik Minnaar Barnard
- Jaap Bekker
- Johannes Daniel Brewis
- John Ulrich Buchler
- Willem Hendrik Delport
- Ernst Erich Dinkelmann
- Jacobus Abraham Du Rand
- Pieter Alfonso Du Toit
- Stephen Perry Fry
- Aaron Okey Geffin
- Paul Geoffrey Allen Johnstone
- August Christoffel Koch
- Marthinus Theunis Lategan
- Franswa Pierre Marais
- Hennie Muller
- Johann Karl Ochse
- Ryk Arnoldus Mauritius Van Schoor
- Christiaan Johannes van Wyk