Once Were Lions

The Players' Stories: Inside the World's Most Famous Rugby Team

Jeff Connor, Martin Hannan

• Publisher: HarperSport
• Year: 2009
• eBook ISBN:
  9780007325900
• Print ISBN:
  9780007241521

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Foreword by Finlay Calder OBE
• Preface The men who once were Lions
• Chapter 1 - First twenty years of the Lions 1888–1908
• Chapter 2 - Then they were Lions 1910–1938
• Chapter 3 - Karl Mullen’s Happy Band Australia and New Zealand 1950
• Chapter 4 - Robin Thompson’s Quality Street Gang South Africa 1955
• Chapter 5 - Ronnie Dawson’s Proud Squad Australia, New Zealand and Canada 1959
• Chapter 6 - Arthur Smith’s Big Boys didn’t cry South Africa 1962
• Chapter 7 - Mike Campbell-Lamerton and how the Lions were mauled Australia, New Zealand and Canada 1966
• Chapter 8 - Tom Kiernan’s Frolicsome Brigade South Africa 1968
• Chapter 9 - John Dawes and The Great Revival New Zealand and Australia 1971
• Chapter 10 - Willie John Mcbride’s Legends South Africa 1974
• Chapter 11 - Phil Bennett’s Bad News Boys New Zealand and Fiji 1977
• Chapter 12 - Bill Beaumont and The Bad Luck Tour South Africa 1980
• Chapter 13 - Ciaran Fitzgerald’s Men Cut Down New Zealand 1983
• Chapter 14 - Finlay Calder: No Compromise Australia
• Chapter 15 - Gavin Hastings and the tale of two tours New Zealand 1993
• Chapter 16 - Martin Johnson’s Marvels South Africa 1997
• Chapter 17 - Scribblers for Martin Johnson’s Lions Australia 2001
• Chapter 18 - Speared by the all Blacks: Brian O’Driscoll New Zealand 2005
• Chapter 19 - Lions for ever
• Index
• Roll of Honour and Archive of Results
• Copyright
• About the Publisher