NO9

Let's carry out the rugby team of the representative of South Africa, and the talk of a spring box today.
The powerful team on a par with All Blacks of NZ and Wallabies of Australia is a spring box.
This team is also a team which that famous Nelson Mandela commanded, and is also a team which had big influence also in the political direction.That the player of the Europe system becomes a subject and is constituted characterizes springbox.
Therefore, it was unpopular in the African system once.
The first test match is a British Lions game on July 30, 1891.
It came to be called springbox from the mark of friend springbox of the Gazelle  in the breast of a uniform which inhabits South Africa.
From the first, although it was a Rugby strong country traditionally, sanctions were imposed from international society according to apartheid, and it was keeping away from the international scene.
Therefore, as for the first time and the second time, Rugby World Cup did not participate, either.
Nelson Mandela will be inaugurated as the President after that, apartheid will finish, and it will return to an international scene.
World Cup will be held at its own country in 1995, and the first participation and a first championship will be achieved (a first-participation first championship removes the first time, and is only in history).
Four convention continuation participation and the 2nd championship will be achieved in 2007. It seems that it is not so although the origin of the name of a spring box thought a splendid play like springbox.
 Sringbok is animal "National animal of the country of South Africa.
It is said that it is an emblem of Orange Free State Orenge River Colony founded by the people from Bohr in 1904 settler from the Netherlands before the South Africa federation is born that the spring box was used as an emblem of a country.
It is said that the South Africa federation a cape, Natal, an orange, Transvaal will be established in 1910, and springbox was drawn on the emblem.