1967–68 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France
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The 1967–68 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain and France was the twelfth Kangaroo Tour, and saw the Australian national rugby league team travel to Europe and play twenty-one matches against British and French club and representative rugby league teams, in addition to three Test matches against Great Britain and three Tests against the French. It followed the tour of 1963-64 and the next was staged in 1973.
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Manager | Jack Drewes Harry Schmidt | ||||
Coach(es) | Reg Gasnier | ||||
Tour captain(s) | Reg Gasnier Johnny Raper | ||||
Top point scorer(s) | Graeme Langlands 101 | ||||
Top try scorer(s) | Brian Moore 10 | ||||
Top test point scorer(s) | Graeme Langlands 31 | ||||
Top test try scorer(s) | Johnny Greaves 3 Graeme Langlands 3 | ||||
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Previous tour | 1963-64 | ||||
Next tour | 1973 |
The 1967–68 Kangaroo tour became infamously known as the "Bowler Hat Tour". Legend had it that a Kangaroos forward had walked through the West Yorkshire town of Ilkley one night wearing nothing but a bowler hat. Although Johnny Raper often jokingly claimed it was him, in 1988 on Brisbane television, Dennis Manteit claimed that he was in fact the man in the bowler hat. At the time, Kangaroo touring teams were housed in the Ilkley Moors Hotel located approximately 25 km west of Leeds in an effort to not only keep down costs but also to keep players out of trouble by being located in a small town rather than a larger city.