Van Vollenhoven, Tom

Van Vollenhoven, Tom

▪ South African athlete
byname of  Karel Thomas Van Vollenhoven 
born April 29, 1935, Bethlehem, S.Af.

      South African rugby football player who reached the pinnacle of success in both rugby union and rugby league. He played on the wing for the South African national team, the Springboks, in 1955 against the British Lions (now the British and Irish Lions) and during its 1956 tour of New Zealand. Against the Lions at Newlands Stadium in Cape Town, he became the first Springbok to perform a hat trick (score three tries) on home soil.

      After the 1956 tour Van Vollenhoven left rugby union and South Africa to join St. Helens in the English Rugby League. In 1957–58 he set a single-season club record with 62 tries. He scored a record-equaling six tries in one match in 1957 and again in 1962. He played as a winger for 11 years, scoring a record total of 392 tries. His pace and artistry were legendary. In the 1959 championship final against Hunslet at Odsal Stadium in Bradford, Eng., Van Vollenhoven scored his most famous individual try in a length-of-the-field run on which he weaved his way through the entire opposition. In the 1961 Challenge Cup final win against Wigan at Wembley Stadium in London, he finished off one of rugby league's greatest tries in a length-of-the-field passing extravaganza with Ken Large as they exchanged the ball several times while running past the opposition. Van Vollenhoven is regarded as one of the all-time leading wingers of rugby league football.

John Nauright
 

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