1971 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.[1] Ten matches were played between 16 January and 27 March. It was contested by England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
| 1971 Five Nations Championship | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Date | 16 January - 27 March 1971 | ||
| Countries |     .svg.png){kind=small} | ||
| Tournament statistics | |||
| Champions | | ||
| Grand Slam | | ||
| Triple Crown | | ||
| Calcutta Cup | | ||
| Matches played | 10 | ||
| Tries scored | 35 (3.5 per match) | ||
| Top point scorer(s) | | ||
| Top try scorer(s) | | ||
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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:
Table
| Position | Nation | Games | Points | Table points | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | For | Against | Difference | |||
| 1 | |
4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 73 | 38 | +35 | 8 |
| 2 | |
4 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 41 | 40 | +1 | 4 |
| 3 | |
4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 41 | 46 | −5 | 3 |
| 3 | |
4 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 44 | 58 | −14 | 3 |
| 5 | |
4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 47 | 64 | −17 | 2 |
Squads
Results
1971-01-16 |
| France |
13–8 | |
|---|---|---|
| Tries: Sillières Villepreux Con.: Villepreux (2) Pen.: Villepreux |
Tries: Steele Con.: Brown Pen.: Smith |
1971-01-16 |
| Wales |
22–6 | |
|---|---|---|
| Tries: Bevan Davies (2) Con.: Taylor (2) Pen.: Williams Drops: John (2) |
Tries: Hannaford Pen.: Rossborough |
1971-02-06 |
| Scotland |
18–19 | |
|---|---|---|
| Tries: Carmichael Rea Pen.: Brown (4) |
Tries: Taylor Edwards John Davies (2) Con.: John Taylor |
1971-02-27 |
| Scotland |
5–17 | |
|---|---|---|
| Tries: Frame Con.: Brown |
Tries: Duggan (2) Grant Con.: Gibson Pen.: Gibson (2) |
1971-02-27 |
| England |
14–14 | |
|---|---|---|
| Tries: Hiller Con.: Hiller Pen.: Hiller (3) |
Tries: Bertranne Cantoni Con.: Villepreux Pen.: Villepreux Drops: Bérot |
1971-03-13 |
| Wales |
23–9 | |
|---|---|---|
| Tries: Davies (2) Edwards (2) Con.: John Pen.: John (2) Drops: John |
Pen.: Gibson (3) |
1971-03-20 |
| England |
15–16 | |
|---|---|---|
| Tries: Hiller Neary Pen.: Hiller (3) |
Tries: Brown Paterson Rea Con.: Brown (2) Drops: Paterson |
References
- "Scoring history". Rugby Football History. Retrieved 15 November 2016.
External links
| Preceded by 1970 Five Nations |
Five Nations Championship 1971 |
Succeeded by 1972 Five Nations |