1995 Rugby World Cup squads

This article lists the official squads for the 1995 Rugby World Cup in South Africa.

Pool A

ru|AUS

Head Coach: Bob Dwyer

# Matt Pini (Fullback)
# Matt Burke (Fullback/utility back)
# Daniel Herbert (Centre)
# Jason Little (Centre)
# Tim Horan (Centre)
# Joe Roff (Centre/Wing)
# David Campese (Wing)
# Damian Smith (Wing)
# Michael Lynagh (Fly half and captain)
# Scott Bowen (Fly half)
# George Gregan (Scrum half)
# Peter Slaterry (Scrum half)
# Tim Gavin (No. 8)
# Troy Croker (No. 8/Flanker)
# Viliami Ofahengaue (Blindside flanker)
# Ilivasi Tabua (Flanker)
# David Wilson (Openside flanker)
# Rod McCall (Lock)
# John Eales (Lock)
# Warwick Waugh (Lock)
# Tony Daly (Prop)
# Dan Crowley (Prop)
# Ewen McKenzie (Prop)
# Mark Hartill (Prop)
# Phil Kearns (Hooker)
# Michael Foley (Hooker)

ru|CAN

Forwards
# Richard Bice
# Mark Cardinal
# Al Charron
# Glenn Ennis
# Eddie Evans
# Ian Gordon
# John Hutchinson
# Mike James
# Paul LeBlanc
# Gordon MacKinnon
# Colin McKenzie
# Chris Michaluk
# Gareth Rowlands
# Rod Snow
# Karl Svoboda

Backs
# John Graf
# Steve Gray
# David Lougheed
# Shawn Lytton
# Gareth Rees (captain)
# Bob Ross
# Winston Stanley
# Christian Stewart
# Scott Stewart
# Ron Toews
# Alan Tynan

ru|ROM

# Vasile Brici
# Lucian Cocleriu
# Ionel Rotaru
# Gheorghe Solomie
# Adrian Lungu
# Radu Fugigi
# Romeo Gontineac
# Nicolae Racean
# Ilie Ivanciuc
# Neculai Nichitean
# Vasile Flutur
# Daniel Neaga
# Catalin Draguceanu
# Tiberiu Brinza (captain)
# Andrei Guranescu
# Alexandru Gealapu
# Traian Oroian
# Ovidiu Slusariuc
# Sandu Ciorascu
# Constantin Cojocariu
# Valere Tufa
# Ionel Negreci
# Vasile Lucaci
# Gabriel Vlad
# Leodor Costea
# Gheorghe Leonte

ru|RSA

Head Coach: Kitch Christie
# Os du Randt (prop) (Orange Free State)
# Balie Swart (prop) (Transvaal)
# Marius Hurter (Northern Transvaal)
# Garry Pagel (Western Province)
# Chris Rossouw (hooker) (Transvaal)
# James Dalton (Transvaal)
# Mark Andrews (lock) (Natal)
# Kobus Wiese (Transvaal)
# Hannes Strydom (Transvaal)
# Krynauw Otto (Northern Transvaal)
# Francois Pienaar (loose forward) (capitan) (Transvaal)
# Ruben Kruger (Northern Transvaal)
# Robbie Brink (Western Province)
# Rudolph Straeuli (Transvaal)
# Adriaan Richter (Transvaal)
# Joost van der Westhuizen (scrum-half) (Northern Transvaal)
# Johan Roux (Transvaal)
# Joel Stransky (fly-half) (Western Province)
# Hennie le Roux (Transvaal)
# Japie Mulder (centre) (Transvaal)
# Brendan Venter (Orange Free State)
# Christiaan Scholtz (Transvaal)
# Chester Williams (wing) (Western Province) **
# James Small (Natal)
# Andre Joubert (full back) (Natal)
# Gavin Johnson (Transvaal)

** Suffered injury against Western Samoa and not fully recovered, replaced by Pieter Hendriks.

Pool B

ru|ARG

Head Coaches : Alejandro Petra and Ricardo Paganini

Backs
# Agustin Pichot
# Rodrigo Crexell
# Guillermo del Castillo
# Jose Cilley
# Fernando del Castillo
# Lisandro Arbizu
# Sebastian Salvat (capitan)
# Francisco Garcia
# Gonzalo Camardon
# Diego Cuesta Silva
# Martin Teran
# Diego Albanese
# Santiago Meson
# Ezequiel Jurando

Forwards
# Matias Corral
# Marcelo Urbano
# Roberto Grau
# Patricio Noriega
# Federico Mendez
# Ricardo Le Fort
# German Llanes
# Pedro Sporleder
# Nicolas Bossicovich
# Pablo Buabse
# Rolando Martin
# Christian Viel
# Martin Sugasti
# Sebastian Irazoqui
# Jose Santamarina
# Augustin Macome

ru|ENG

Head Coach: Jack Rowell

# Mike Catt (Bath)
# Jonathan Callard (Bath)
# Tony Underwood (Leicester)
# Rory Underwood (Leicester)
# Ian Hunter (Northampton)
# Will Carling (Harlequins)
# Jeremy Guscott (Bath)
# Phil de Glanville (Bath)
# Damian Hopley (Wasps)
# Rob Andrew (Wasps)
# Kyran Bracken (Bristol)
# Dewi Morris (Orrell)
# Jason Leonard (Harlequins)
# Graham Rowntree (Leicester)
# Victor Ubogu (Bath)
# John Mallett (Bath)
# Brian Moore (Harlequins)
# Graham Dawe (Bath)
# Martin Bayfield (Northampton)
# Martin Johnson (Leicester)
# Richard West (Gloucester)
# Tim Rodber (Northampton)
# Dean Richards (Leicester)
# Ben Clarke (Bath)
# Steve Ojomoh (Bath)
# Neil Back (Leicester)

ru|ITA

Head Coach: flagicon|FRA Georges Coste

Backs
# Alessandro Troncon
# Francesco Trecate
# Diego Dominguez
# Luigi Troiani
# Massimo Bonomi
# Ivan Francescato
# Stefano Bordon
# Marco Platania
# Massimo Ravazzolo
# Marcello Cuttitta
# Mario Oscar Gerosa
# Francesco Mazzariol
# Massimiliano Perziano
# Paolo Vaccari
# Piermassimiliano Dotto Forwards
# Massimo Cuttitta (capitan)
# Franco Properzi
# Giovanni Grespan
# Mauro Dal Sie
# Andrea Castellani
# Roberto Favaro
# Mark Giacheri
# Pierpaolo Pedroni
# Giambattista Croci
# Carlo Checchinato
# Diego Scaglia
# Julian Gardner
# Orazio Arancio
# Andrea Sgorlon
# Massimiliano Capuzzoni
# Moreno Trevisiol
# Carlos Orlandi

ru|SAM

# Tupo Fa`amasino
# Michael Umaga
# George Harder
# Brian Lima
# George Leaupepe
# Esera Puleitu
# Fereti Tuilagi
# To`o Vaega
# Darren Kellett
# Fata Sini
# Tuetu Nu`ualiitia
# Vaapuu Vitale
# Peter Fatialofa
# George Latu
# Micheal Mika
# Tala Leiasamaivo
# Brendan Reidy
# Lio Falaniko
# Potu Leavasa
# Saini Lemanea
# Daryl Williams
# Malaki Iupeli
# Junior Paramore
# Sila Viafale
# Pat Lam
# Sham Tatupu

Pool C

ru|IRE

Head Coach: Gerry Murphy

Backs
# Jim Staples (Harlequins & Irish Exiles)
# Conor O'Shea (Lansdowne & Leinster)
# Simon Geoghegan (Bath & Irish Exiles)
# Richard Wallace (Garryowen & Munster)
# Daragh O'Mahoney (U.C.D & Leinster)
# Brendan Mullin (Blackrock & Leinster)
# Jonathan Bell (Ballymena & Ulster)
# Maurice Field (Malone & Ulster)
# Eric Elwood (Lansdowne & Leinster)
# Paul Burke (Cork Constitution & Munster)
# Niall Hogan (Terenure & Leinster)
# Michael Bradley (Cork Constitution & Munster(reserve))

Forwards
# Nick Popplewell (Wasps & Irish Exiles)
# John Fitzgerald (Young Munster & Munster)
# Gary Halpin (London Irish & Irish Exiles)
# Paul Wallace (Blacrock & Leinster)
# Terry Kingston (Dolphin & Munster) (capitan)
# Keith Wood (Garryowen & Munster)
# Neil Francis (Old Belvedere & Leinster)
# Gabriel Fulcher (Cork Constitution & Munster)
# Davy Tweed (Ballymena & Ulster)
# Anthony Foley (Shannon & Munster)
# David Corkery (Cork Constitution & Munster)
# Eddie Halvey (Shannon & Munster)
# Dennis McBride (Malone & Ulster)
# Paddy Johns (Dungannon & Ulster)

ru|JPN

Backs
# Tsutomu Matsuda
# Kiyoshi Imaizumi
# Terunori Masuho
# Akira Yoshida
# Lopeti Oto
# Seiji Hirao
# Yoshihito Yoshida
# Yukio Motoki
# Katsuhiro Matsuo
# Keiji Hirose
# Masami Horikoshi
# Wataru Murata

Forwards
# Osamu Ota
# Kazuaki Takahashi
# Masanori Takura
# Masahiro Kunda (captain)
# Eiji Hirotsu
# Kazu Hamabe
# Yoshihiko Sakuraba
# Bruce Ferguson
# Takashi Akatsuka
# Hiroyuki Kajihara
# Sinari Latu
# Ko Izawa
# Sione Latu
# Tomoya Haneda

ru|NZL

Head Coach: Laurie Mains

Backs
# Glen Osborne (North Harbour)
# Eric Rush (North Harbour)
# Jeff Wilson (Otago)
# Marc Ellis (Otago)
# Jonah Lomu (Counties)
# Frank Bunce (North Harbour)
# Walter Little (North Harbour)
# Alama Ieremia (Wellington)
# Andrew Mehrtens (Canterbury)
# Simon Culhane (Southland)
# Ant Strachan (North Harbour)
# Graeme Bachop (Canterbury)

Forwards
# Zinzan Brooke (Auckland)
# Kevin Schuler (North Harbour)
# Mike Brewer (Canterbury)
# Jamie Joseph (Otago)
# Paul Henderson (Southland)
# Josh Kronfeld (Otago)
# Blair Larsen (North Harbour)
# Ian Jones (North Harbour)
# Robin Brooke (Auckland)
# Craig Dowd (Auckland)
# Olo Brown (Auckland)
# Richard Loe (Canterbury)
# Sean Fitzpatrick (Auckland) (capitan)
# Norm Hewitt (Southland)

ru|WAL

Head Coach: flagicon|AUS Alex Evans

Backs
# Tony Clement (Swansea)
# Adrian Davies (Cardiff)
# Dai Evans (Treorchy)
# Ieuan Evans (Llanelli)
# Steve Ford (Cardiff)
# Mike Hall (Cardiff) (capitan)
# Neil Jenkins (Pontypridd)
# Robert Jones (Swansea)
# Andy Moore (Cardiff)
# Wayne Proctor (Llanelli)
# Gareth Thomas (Bridgend)
# Justin Thomas (Cardiff Institute)

Forwards
# Mark Bennett (Cardiff)
# John Davies (Neath)
# Stuart Davies (Swansea)
# Ricky Evans (Llanelli)
# Mike Griffiths (Cardiff)
# Jonathan Humphreys (Cardiff)
# Garin Jenkins (Swansea)
# Spencer John (Llanelli)
# Derwyn Jones (Cardiff)
# Emyr Lewis (Cardiff)
# Gareth Llewellyn (Neath)
# Greg Prosser (Pontypridd)
# Stuart Roy (Cardiff)
# Hemi Taylor (Cardiff)

Pool D

ru|FRA

Head Coach: Pierre Berbizier

# Jean-Luc Sadourny (Colomiers) 28 years-old, 27 caps
# Sébastien Viars (Brive) 23 - 13
# Philippe Saint-André (Montferrand) 27 - 43
# Philippe Sella (Agen) 33 - 106
# Franck Mesnel (Racing) 33 - 53
# Emile Ntamack (Stade Toulousain) 24 - 7
# Thierry Lacroix (Dax) 27 - 27
# William Techouereyes (SBUC) 28 - 7
# Christophe Deylaud (Stade Toulousain) 30 - 9
# Yann Delaigue (Toulon) 21 - 4
# Aubin Hueber (Toulon) 28 - 18
# Guy Accoceberry (Begles) 27 - 7
# Abdelatif Benazzi (Agen) 28 - 32
# Philippe Benetton (Agen) 26 - 29
# Marc Cecillon (Bourgoin) 35 - 41
# Laurent Cabannes (Racing) 30 - 34
# Arnaud Costes (Montferrand) 21 - 1 cap
# Olivier Roumat (Dax) 28 - 50
# Olivier Brouzet (Grenoble) 22 - 5
# Olivier Merle (Montferrand) 29 - 15
# Christian Califano (Stade Toulousain) 22 - 7
# Philippe Gallart (Beziers) 32 - 15
# Jean-Michel Gonzalez (Bayonne) 27 - 23
# Louis Armary (Lourdes) 31 - 40
# Laurent Benezech (Racing) 28 - 8
# Marc de Rougemont (Toulon) 22 - 0

ru|CIV

Backs
# Felix Dago
# Frederic Dupont
# Aboubacar Camara
# Atahanase Dali (capitan)
# Thierry Kouame
# Lucien Niakou
# Aboubacar Soulama
# Paulin Bouazo
# Max Brito
# Celestin N'Gbala
# Victor Kouassi
# Jean Sathicq

Forwards
# Ernest Bley
# Toussaint Djehi
# Jean-Pascal Ezoua
# Daniel Quansah
# Edouard Angoran
# Achille Niamien
# Ble Aka
# Gilbert Bado
# Amidou Kone
# Ismaila Lassissi

* Only 24 players were selected.

ru|SCO

Head Coach: Jim Telfer

# Gavin Hastings (Watsonians) (capitan)
# Cameron Glasgow (Heriots)
# Kenny Logan (Stirling Co.)
# Craig Joiner (Melrose)
# Tony Stanger (Hawick)
# Scott Hastings (Watsonians)
# Ian Jardin (Stirling Co.)
# Graham Shiel (Melrose)
# Craig Chalmers (Melrose)
# Bryan Redpath (Melrose)
# David Hilton (Bath)
# John Manson (Dundee HS)
# Peter Wright (Boroughmuir)
# Paul Burnell (London Scot.)
# Kenny Milne (Heriots)
# Kevin McKenzie (Stirling Co.)
# Stewart Campbell (Dundee HS)
# Damian Cronin (Bourges)
# Jeremy Richardson (Edinburgh Acs)
# Doddie Weir (Melrose)
# Rob Wainwright (West Hartlepool)
# Peter Walton (Northampton)
# Ian Morrison (London Scot.)
# Ian Smith (Gloucester)
# Eric Peters (Bath)

ru|TON

Forwards
# Mana Otai (captain)
# Tu`akalau Fukofuka
# Etuini Talaki
# Sa`ili Fe`ao
# Fe`ao Vunipola
# Fololisi Masila
# Pouvalu Latukefu
# Falamani Mafi
# Willie Lose
# Ipolitio Fenukitau
# Toutai Kefu
# Fili Finau
# Inoke Afeaki
# Danial Manu
# Feleti Fakaongo
# Feleti Mahoni
# Takau Lutua

Backs
# Manu Vunipola
# Akuila Mafi
# Elisi Vunipola
# Pita Alatini
# Falanisi Manukia
# Penieli Latu
# Sione Ngauamo
# Alasika Taufa
# Tevita Va`enuku
# Semi Taupeaafe
# Sateki Tu'ipulotu
# Taipe `Isitolo
# Simani Mafile'o
# Tevita Manako
# Nafe Tufui

External links

* [http://www.uidaho.edu/clubs/womens_rugby/RugbyRoot/rugby/games/World_Cup/1995/teams.html]