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1971 Five Nations Championship

Rugby Union tournament


Rugby Union tournament

FieldValue
name1971 Five Nations Championship
date16 January - 27 March 1971
countries
champions
count17
grand slam(6th title)
triple crown(12th title)
matches10
tries35
top point scorerENG Bob Hiller (35)
top try scorerWAL Davies (5)
previous year1970
previous tournament1970 Five Nations Championship
next year1972
next tournament1972 Five Nations Championship

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. Ten matches were played between 16 January and 27 March. It was contested by England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

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:

**Nation****Venue****City****Head coach****Captain**
TwickenhamLondonDon WhiteTony Bucknall/John Spencer
Stade Olympique Yves-du-ManoirColombesFernand CazenaveBenoît Dauga/Christian Carrère
Lansdowne RoadDublinRonnie DawsonTom Kiernan/Mike Gibson
MurrayfieldEdinburghBill DickinsonPeter Brown
National StadiumCardiffClive RowlandsJohn Dawes

Table

Squads

Results

date = 1971-01-16| home = | score = 13–8 | away = | Villepreux Con: Villepreux (2) Pen: Villepreux Con: Brown Pen: Smith attendance = 32,466 | referee = K. D. Kelleher (Ireland)}}

date = 1971-01-16| home = | score = 22–6 | away = | Davies (2) Con: Taylor (2) Pen: Williams Drop: John (2) Pen: Rossborough | attendance = | referee = D. P. d'Arcy (Ireland)}}


date = 1971-01-30| home = | score = 9–9 | away = | Pen: O'Driscoll (2) Drop: Bérot attendance = 55,000 | referee = G. C. Lamb (England)}}

date = 1971-02-06| home = | score = 18–19 | away = | Rea Pen: Brown (4) Edwards John Davies Con: John Taylor Pen: John attendance = | referee = M. H. Titcomb (England)}}

date = 1971-02-13| home = | score = 6–9 | away = | Duggan attendance = | referee = M. Joseph (Wales)}}

date = 1971-02-27| home = | score = 5–17 | away = | Con: Brown Grant Con: Gibson Pen: Gibson (2) attendance = | referee = W. K. M. Jones (Wales)}}

date = 1971-02-27| home = | score = 14–14 | away = | Con: Hiller Pen: Hiller (3) Cantoni Con: Villepreux Pen: Villepreux Drop: Bérot attendance = 70,000 | referee = A. R. Lewis (Wales)}}

date = 1971-03-13| home = | score = 23–9 | away = | Edwards (2) Con: John Pen: John (2) Drop: John attendance = | referee = R. F. Johnson (England)}}

date = 1971-03-20| home = | score = 15–16 | away = | Neary Pen: Hiller (3) Paterson Rea Con: Brown (2) Drop: Paterson attendance = | referee = C. Durand (France)}}

date = 1971-03-27| home = | score = 5–9 | away = | Con: Villepreux John **Pen.: **John attendance = 50,703 | referee = J. Young (Scotland)}}

References

References

  1. "Scoring history". Rugby Football History.
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