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The game that never was

On 25 July 1981 a scheduled rugby game between the Waikato team and the touring South African Springboks had to be called off after anti-apartheid protesters stormed onto the ground at Rugby Park in Hamilton. Violence erupted after the game was called off, as this film footage shows.

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Nancy Swarbrick. 'Waikato region', Te Ara - the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, updated 25-Sep-11
URL: http://www.TeAra.govt.nz/en/waikato-region/12/6