Roll of Honour | Lions

Dawson Lions

Some legendary players have worn the famous red shirt of the British and Irish Lions as well as the black, green and gold.

Leading the total number of Lions appearances is Dickie Jeeps with 13 from his three tours. Jeeps is also unique in this list for being capped by the Lions before playing for England.

There are several other players who have toured more than once - Jeff Butterfield, Keith Savage and Matt Dawson, who has also gone into Lions folklore for his spectacular try in the first test against the Springboks in Cape Town, 1997. In Sir Ian McGeechan Saints also provided the head coach for this successful tour of South Africa as well as five players, the highest number to come from the club for any one tour.

The most recent Lion was Euan Murray, who toured South Africa in the summer of 2009.

Year

Country Toured

Players

1955

South Africa

Jeff Butterfield, Dickie Jeeps, Frank Sykes

1959

Australia, New Zealand

Jeff Butterfield, Dickie Jeeps

1962

South Africa

Dickie Jeeps

1966

New Zealand

David Powell, Keith Savage

1968

South Africa

Peter Larter, Keith Savage, Bob Taylor,
Bryan West

1993

New Zealand

Martin Bayfield, Ian Hunter

1997

South Africa

Nick Beal, Matt Dawson, Paul Grayson, Tim Rodber,
Gregor Townsend, Sir Ian McGeechan (coach)

2001

Australia

Ben Cohen, Matt Dawson

2005

New Zealand

Steve Thompson

2009

South Africa

Euan Murray

In 1899 and 1904 Blair Swannell was capped seven times by a British touring side, an early forerunner of the Lions.

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