Blue Bulls is a South African rugby union team that participates in the annual Currie Cup tournament.
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23 Facts About Blue Bulls
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Blue Bulls was to captain Northerns in a further 3 finals and in total play 8 finals - none of them ever on a losing side.
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The Blue Bulls shared the 2006 Currie Cup with the Free State Cheetahs with the score remaining locked at 28-all after twenty minutes of extra time.
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From 1997 to 2002 The Blue Bulls did not reach the final on a single occasion, at times ending last in the competition.
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The Blue Bulls have a positive winning record against all the South African domestic sides including their arch rivals, Western Province.
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One of the most recent Currie Cup seasons when both sides made it to the final was the 1998 season: The Blue Bulls beat the Western Province by four points, 24 to 20, at Loftus Versfeld.
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Blue Bulls was the first of the truly great Springbok rugby players produced by the Blue Bulls.
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Blue Bulls will be remembered for his enthusiastic team talks and witty speeches.
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Blue Bulls's try for the Light Blues against the Junior Springboks in 1955, when he beat one player after another in spectacular a zigzag run of almost 80 metres, is still lauded as the try of all tries.
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Blue Bulls played in 8 Currie Cup finals and was never on a losing side.
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Blue Bulls was a very resourceful captain and player and highly respected on and off the field.
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The partnership he established with Brigadier Buurman van Zyl, was the foundation on which the Blue Bulls built their dominance of the Currie Cup scene in the 1970s.
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Blue Bulls was the greatest match winner SA rugby has ever seen and has a record that speaks for itself.
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Blue Bulls was an absolute genius and his insight into and knowledge of the game and its rules, and his ability to motivate players, made him the ideal player-captain.
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Blue Bulls received the SA Rugby Player of the Year award a record 4 times .
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Blue Bulls is one of only a handful of players that have won a World Cup winners medal, and Tri-Nations winners medal and a Currie Cup winners medals .
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Blue Bulls captained his side in both the Currie Cup finals he played and was later awarded the captaincy of the Springboks in the 1999 World Cup.
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Blue Bulls was Deputy Chairman of the South African Rugby Board for 15 years, member of the International Rugby Board for 27 years as well as chairman for a term, and co-chairman of the SA Rugby Football Union .
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Blue Bulls started coaching the Bulls in 1968 and for the following 14 seasons he coached Northerns to 12 finals winning 9 times sharing it twice.
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Blue Bulls doesn't know whether his remarkable hat trick is a first for Blue Bull rugby, but he is proud of the fact that, as player, he was on the winning side in Currie Cup rugby three times from 1973 to 1975 and was the Bulls coach when they won the Cup in 1987 and 1988 and shared it with Western Province in 1989.
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Blue Bulls was part of the Blue Bulls' administration when the team won the cup in 1998.
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Blue Bulls became the first South African coach to achieve success at Super Rugby level when the Bulls beat the Sharks in 2007.
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Blue Bulls represent the Limpopo province in the Currie Cup, the northernmost province in South Africa, as well as part of the Gauteng province, drawing all their players from these two areas.
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