During its second tour to Argentina, the British Isles team, formed by English and Scottish players,[1] played 9 matches in the country, winning all of them with more than 295 points scored and only 9 conceded.

On July 19, 1927, a team composed of twenty-three players from England, Scotland and Ireland under the direction of James Baxter, none other than the president of the RFU, and a first-class referee, arrived in Buenos Aires and settled in the headquarters of Hurlingham Club for a fixture of nine games.

His captain, David MacMyn, was a leading Scottish forward who had been part of the team that won its first Grand Slam in 1925 and shared the title of the Five Nations with Ireland in 1926.

During the long sea voyage to Argentina, MacMyn made good use of onboard time for his men to train and make a tactical plan for the tour.

And so, the hard training and the free exchange of ideas stimulated us for the exhausting days that we had ahead.In their first games, the Lions played an Anglo-Argentine combined and the Argentine champion San Isidro, which had won eight consecutive domestic championships to date.

[4] The British Lions tour on Argentina was a huge success, with a great number of people attending the games in spite of the large defeats to the national team.

In sporting terms, the tour of the British team of 1927 was of great importance for Argentine rugby, which gave a powerful boost to the expansion of the game in the country.