At the SCG, 69 years before Monday morning’s historic World Cup humiliation, Australia lost to their Pacific island cousins under a whopping cloud of controversy.
On June 26, 1954, the White Australia policy was still in place, a 27-year-old Queen Elizabeth II had just completed her inaugural royal tour and tries were still worth three points. Nick Shehadie was also wrestling Taniela Ranavue at the SCG.
Cue Shehadie rolling around on the ground with fullback Ranavue, and just about every other Fiji player storming Furness and linesman Frank Hodgson to ask who should have been given the decisive throw-in.Harry Martin At the Brisbane Exhibition Ground , Ranavue traded blows with several Australian players and left winger Eddie Stapleton with two cracked ribs. The June 6reported Stapleton “returned to play after 10 minutes, but he was useless and was sent off”.
In that piece, Kameli Rakoko wrote: “Ranavue began a big brawl after he had been watching helplessly from the back as a big Australian prop of Lebanese origin NM Shehadie was throwing punches in the scrum, rucks and mauls.
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