Rugby pioneer Dougie Dyers dies: Rugby pioneer Dougie Dyers, the first captain of a black national side to leave South Africa, has died aged 86.
The next year he captained the first coloured side to play an international side when they met England on SA soil. He also captained the Proteas against the British & Irish Lions in 1974.
Dyers made his union debut for Parow at the age of 19 and soon established himself as a player and leader in the team, before moving to Walvis Bay in 1961. SA Rugby said in a statement: “The match between the Proteas and England in 1972 was the first international in which blacks played against whites on South African soil, shortly before the African Leopards also faced the tourists.”After he retired from playing, Dyers went into coaching and later took charge of the Proteas, before being appointed to coach the SA Barbarians team in 1979, the first of its kind to tour outside SA.
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