The tour also featured the 11th Ashes series which comprised three Test matches and was the first to be won by Great Britain in a clean sweep.

The squad's outbound journey was marred by tragedy when Sydney University centre Ray Morris contracted meningitis en route and died in hospital.

Les Heidke was suffering from leg ulcers before the squad left Sydney and Dan Dempsey was brought in to take his place.

For the first sixty-five minutes of the match there was no score in the muddy conditions, then Lions fullback Jim Sullivan proved the difference with two penalty goals.

[3] In winning the match which was played in thick fog, England became the first team to post a 3–0 clean sweep in an Anglo-Australian Test series.