{"id":803485,"date":"2026-10-15T15:00:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803485\/"},"modified":"2026-10-15T15:00:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-15T15:00:09","slug":"1946-great-britain-side-inducted-into-rugby-league-hall-of-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/803485\/","title":{"rendered":"1946 Great Britain side inducted into Rugby League Hall of Fame"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 1946 Great Britain side which toured Australia and New Zealand has been inducted into the Rugby League Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Nicknamed the &#8216;Indomitables&#8217; after the navy aircraft carrier they sailed on, the 26-man squad completed an unbeaten Ashes series against Australia, following an 8-8 draw in Sydney with a 14-5 win in Brisbane and a 20-7 victory back in Sydney.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">They remain the only Great Britain rugby league team to go unbeaten in an away Test series against Australia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Across the five-month trip, which was the first major overseas sporting tour by a British team following the end of World War Two, Welshman Gus Risman&#8217;s side played 27 matches, winning 21, drawing one, and losing five.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The 1946 Great Britain side which toured Australia and New Zealand has been inducted into the Rugby League&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":803486,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[5903,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-803485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-rugby","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803485"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803485\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/803486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}