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1988 Five Nations Championship

Rugby union tournament

Field	Value
name	1988 Five Nations Championship
date	16 January – 19 March 1988
countries

champions	and
triple crown	(17th title)
matches	10
tries	31
top point scorer	SCO Gavin Hastings (41 points)
top try scorer	ENG Chris Oti (3 tries)
previous year	1987
previous tournament	1987 Five Nations Championship
next year	1989
next tournament	1989 Five Nations Championship

The 1988 Five Nations Championship was the 59th series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the ninety–fourth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played over five weekends between 16 January and 19 March. Wales and France were declared joint winners with six points each; it was the most recent time the Championship was shared between two or more nations as the rules were changed in 1994 to make such an event unlikely.

The final match of the tournament, England's victory over Ireland, was notable for the crowd bursting into song with "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" as a response to the hat-trick of tries scored by England's Chris Oti (only the second black player, and the first for 80 years, to be capped by England). The song was subsequently to become the unofficial rugby anthem for England.

Wales missed out on a ninth Grand Slam after losing to France at Cardiff Arms Park.

Participants

The teams involved were:

Venue	City	Head coach	Captain
Twickenham	London	Geoff Cooke	Mike Harrison/Nigel Melville
Parc des Princes	Paris	Jacques Fouroux	Daniel Dubroca
Lansdowne Road	Dublin	Jim Davidson	Donal Lenihan
Murrayfield	Edinburgh	Jim Telfer	Gary Callander
National Stadium	Cardiff	Tony Gray	Bleddyn Bowen

Squads

Table

Results

Round 1

MacNeill Mullin Laidlaw

Round 2

Tukalo

Round 3

Camberabero Carminati Lagisquet Sella

I. Evans Watkins Duncan

Round 4

Round 5

Rees R. Underwood (2) Webb

References

Murray, Scott. (2011-02-18). "The Joy of Six: Five Nations memories". Guardian.
(13 March 2008). "Oti the man to blame as 'Swing Low Sweet Chariot' continues to roll". Irish Independent.
(1988). "Rothmans Rugby Union Yearbook 1988-89". Queen Anne Press.

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