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1977 Five Nations Championship

Rugby union competition

Rugby union competition

FieldValue
name1977 Five Nations Championship
date15 January - 19 March 1977
countries
champions
count6
grand slam(2nd title)
triple crown(14th title)
matches10
tries25
top point scorer{{ubl
top try scorer{{ubl
previous year1976
previous tournament1976 Five Nations Championship
next year1978
next tournament1978 Five Nations Championship

|WAL Phil Bennett (24) |IRE Mike Gibson (24) |SCO Bill Gammell (2) |WAL J. P. R. Williams (2) |FRA Dominique Harize (2)

The 1977 Five Nations Championship was the forty-eighth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the eighty-third series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 15 January and 19 March.

won the championship for the sixth time outright. Including shared titles this was France's tenth championship overall. France won the Grand Slam for the second time and did so with the same fifteen players in all four matches (a unique feat for a Grand Slam winner) and without conceding a try. England, in 1913, are the only other Grand Slam winners not to concede a try. France also registered the lowest points total, 58, of any Grand Slam winner in the four point-try era (1972–92). won the Triple Crown for the second consecutive season and the fourteenth time overall, equalling England's record of Triple Crown wins. They were the first Triple Crown winners to finish as runners-up in the championship.

The third game of the tournament — France v. Wales in Paris — was the subject of the 1978 film Grand Slam; the ending had to be rewritten when Wales unexpectedly lost.

Participants

The teams involved were:

NationVenueCityHead coachCaptain
TwickenhamLondonPeter ColstonRoger Uttley
Parc des PrincesParisJean DesclauxJacques Fouroux
Lansdowne RoadDublinRoly MeatesTom Grace
MurrayfieldEdinburghBill DickinsonIan McGeechan
National StadiumCardiffJohn DawesPhil Bennett

Table

Squads

Results

Davies J. P. R. Williams Con.: Bennett (2) Pen.: Bennett (2) Drops: Fenwick

Slemen Uttley Young Con.: Hignell (2) Pen.: Hignell (2)

Skrela Con.: Romeu Pen.: Romeu (2)

Madsen Pen.: Irvine (2) Drops: Morgan Con.: Gibson Pen.: Gibson (2) Quinn Drops: Quinn

Harize Paco Paparemborde Con.: Romeu (2) Pen.: Romeu

J. P. R. Williams Pen.: Fenwick (2)

Quinn Con.: Aguirre Pen.: Aguirre (2) Romeu

Con.: Irvine Drops: McGeechan J.J. Williams Con.: Bennett (2) Pen.: Bennett (2)

References

References

  1. (Jenkins, p57)
  2. Seeckts, Richard. "A frugal French victory". espnscrum.com.
  3. "A watertight defence".
  4. Owen, Roger. (15 September 2013). "Gwenlyn Parry". University of Wales Press.
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