1971 Five Nations Championship

1971 Five Nations Championship
Date	16 January 1971 - 27 March 1971
Countries	England  Ireland  France  Scotland  Wales
Tournament statistics
Champions	Wales (17th title)
Matches played	10
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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. 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.

Table

Position	Nation	Games				Points			Table points
		Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference
1	Wales	4	4	0	0	73	38	+35	8
2	France	4	1	2	1	41	40	+1	4
3	Ireland	4	1	1	2	41	46	−5	3
3	England	4	1	1	2	44	58	−14	3
5	Scotland	4	1	0	3	47	64	−17	2

Results

1971-01-16	France	13–8	Scotland	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes Attendance: 32466
	Tries:Sillieres c Villepreux c Con:Villepreux(2) Pen:Villepreux		Try:Steele c Con:Brown Pen:Smith

1971-01-16	Wales	22–6	England	National Stadium, Cardiff
	Tries:Bevan m Davies (2)c Con:Taylor (2/3) Pen:Williams Drop:John (2)		Try:Hannaford m Pen:Rossbourough

1971-01-30	Ireland	9–9	France	Lansdowne Road, Dublin Attendance: 55000
	Try:Grant m Pen:O'Driscoll (2)		Pen:Villepreux (2) Drop:Berot

1971-02-06	Scotland	18–19	Wales	Murrayfield, Edinburgh
	Tries:Carmichael m Rea m Pen:Brown (4)		Tries:Taylor c Edwards m John m Davies c Con:John Taylor

1971-02-13	Ireland	6–9	England	Lansdowne Road, Dublin
	Tries:Grant m Duggan m		Pen:Hiller (3)

1971-02-27	Scotland	5–17	Ireland	Murrayfield, Edinburgh
	Try:Frame c Con:Brown		Tries:Duggan (2)m,c Grant m Con:Gibson Pen:Gibson

1971-02-27	England	14–14	France	Twickenham, London Attendance: 70000
	Try:Hiller c Con:Hiller Pen:Hiller (3)		Tries:Bertranne m Cantoni c Con:Villepreux Pen:Villepreux Drop:Berot

1971-03-13	Wales	23–9	Ireland	National Stadium, Cardiff
	Tries: Davies (2) Edwards (2) Con: John Pen: John (2) Drop:John		Pen: Gibson (3)

1971-03-20	England	15–16	Scotland	Twickenham, London
	Tries: Hiller m Neary c Con: Hiller Pen: Hiller (3)		Tries: Brown c Paterson m Rea c Con: Brown(2/3) Drop:Paterson

1971-03-27	France	5–9	Wales	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes Attendance: 50703
	Try:Dauga c Con: Villepreux		Tries:Edwards m John m Pen:John

External links

Rugby union portal

• The official RBS Six Nations Site