World Cup - Golden Lions - Alex Murphy

World Cups (1) - Great Britain 1960
Tries 1

Alex Murphy was one of many players who matured during their National Service in the post-war years, when he was chiefly responsible for the RAF XV at last matching the Army and the sailors in the inter-Services tournaments of 1958-60. He would frequently star in an Air Force team at union the same week he played for St Helens at league. In 1958 he beat Billy Boston's four-year-old record as the youngest British tourist Down Under, and was instantly identified as one of the greatest scrum-halves Australia and New Zealand had ever seen, a key figure in the 25-18 victory in the Second Test at Brisbane, when the Lions were effectively reduced to eleven men, though their captain Alan Prescott played most of the match with a broken arm.

Read his Hall of Fame entry here.

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