1971_Five_Nations_Championship

1971 Five Nations Championship

1971 Five Nations Championship

Season of the six nations' tournament

The 1971 Five Nations Championship was the forty-second series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the seventy-seventh series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. This was the last Five Nations tournament where a try was worth 3 points.[1] Ten matches were played between 16 January and 27 March. It was contested by England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

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Wales won all their four matches to win the championship for the seventeenth time outright, excluding shared titles. They won the Triple Crown for the second time in three seasons and the twelfth time overall, and completed the Grand Slam for the first time since 1952 and the sixth time overall.

Participants

The teams involved were:

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Squads

For each nation's squad for the 1971 Five Nations Championship, see 1971 Five Nations Championship squads.

Results

1971-01-16
France 13–8 Scotland
Tries: Sillières
Villepreux
Con: Villepreux (2)
Pen: Villepreux		Tries: Steele
Con: Brown
Pen: Smith
Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes
Attendance: 32,466
Referee: K. D. Kelleher (Ireland)
1971-01-16
Wales 22–6 England
Tries: Bevan
Davies (2)
Con: Taylor (2)
Pen: Williams
Drop: John (2)		Tries: Hannaford
Pen: Rossborough
National Stadium, Cardiff
Referee: D. P. d'Arcy (Ireland)
1971-01-30
Ireland 9–9 France
Tries: Grant
Pen: O'Driscoll (2)		Pen: Villepreux (2)
Drop: Bérot
Lansdowne Road, Dublin
Attendance: 55,000
Referee: G. C. Lamb (England)
1971-02-06
Scotland 18–19 Wales
Tries: Carmichael
Rea
Pen: Brown (4)		Tries: Taylor
Edwards
John
Davies
Con: John
Taylor
Pen: John
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Referee: M. H. Titcomb (England)
1971-02-13
Ireland 6–9 England
Tries: Grant
Duggan		Pen: Hiller (3)
Lansdowne Road, Dublin
Referee: M. Joseph (Wales)
1971-02-27
Scotland 5–17 Ireland
Tries: Frame
Con: Brown		Tries: Duggan (2)
Grant
Con: Gibson
Pen: Gibson (2)
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Referee: W. K. M. Jones (Wales)
1971-02-27
England 14–14 France
Tries: Hiller
Con: Hiller
Pen: Hiller (3)		Tries: Bertranne
Cantoni
Con: Villepreux
Pen: Villepreux
Drop: Bérot
Twickenham, London
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: A. R. Lewis (Wales)
1971-03-13
Wales 23–9 Ireland
Tries: Davies (2)
Edwards (2)
Con: John
Pen: John (2)
Drop: John		Pen: Gibson (3)
National Stadium, Cardiff
Referee: R. F. Johnson (England)
1971-03-20
England 15–16 Scotland
Tries: Hiller
Neary
Pen: Hiller (3)		Tries: Brown
Paterson
Rea
Con: Brown (2)
Drop: Paterson
Twickenham, London
Referee: C. Durand (France)
1971-03-27
France 5–9 Wales
Tries: Dauga
Con: Villepreux		Tries: Edwards
John
Pen.: John
Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes
Attendance: 50,703
Referee: J. Young (Scotland)

References

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    "Scoring history". Rugby Football History. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
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