Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's African Qualifiers Football at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Men's African Qualifiers 3 groups of 2 teams each. Winners qualify for the Final Tournament. "Nigeria won 3–2 and qualified for the 1976 Summer Olympics football tournament." "Ghana won 2–1 and qualifiyed for the 1976 Summer Olympics football tournament." "Zambia won 5–4 on penalties after 2–2 on aggregates and qualifiyed for the 1976 Summer Olympics football tournament." The three African participants withdrew a day before the start of the Games and were not replaced. They boycotted the Olympics protesting the participation of New Zealand, whose rugby team planned a summer tour of South
History of the South Africa national rugby union team but did not do so well in the Tests—losing all three. In 1963 the touring Wallabies beat the Springboks in consecutive Tests, the first team to do so since the 1896 British team. Wales toured South Africa and played several games and one Test in 1964—their first overseas tour. They lost the Test against South Africa in Durban 24–3, their biggest defeat in 40 years. At the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) annual general meeting that year, the outgoing WRU President D. Ewart Davies declared that "it was evident from the experience of the South African Tour that a much more