- 1977 Five Nations Championship
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
January 15 andMarch 19 ,1977 .Nrut|France 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 and without conceding a try. No previous Grand Slam winners had achieved either of these feats. Nrut|Wales won the Triple Crown for the second consecutive season and the fourteenth time overall, equalling England's record of Triple Crown wins.
Table
Results
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date =1977-01-15
home = ru-rt|WAL | score = 25–9
away = ru|IRE | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium = National Stadium,Cardiff
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date =1977-01-15
home = ru-rt|ENG | score = 26–6
away = ru|SCO | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium = Twickenham,London
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date =1977-02-05
home = ru-rt|FRA | score = 16–9
away = ru|WAL | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium =Parc des Princes ,Paris
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date =1977-02-05
home = ru-rt|IRE | score = 0–4
away = ru|ENG | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium =Lansdowne Road ,Dublin
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date =1977-02-19
home = ru-rt|ENG | score = 3–4
away = ru|FRA | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium = Twickenham,London
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date =1977-02-19
home = ru-rt|SCO | score = 21–18
away = ru|IRE | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium = Murrayfield,Edinburgh
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date =1977-03-05
home = ru-rt|FRA | score = 23–3
away = ru|SCO | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium =Parc des Princes ,Paris
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date =1977-03-05
home = ru-rt|WAL | score = 14–9
away = ru|ENG | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium = National Stadium,Cardiff
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date =1977-03-19
home = ru-rt|IRE | score = 6–15
away = ru|FRA | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium =Lansdowne Road ,Dublin
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date =1977-03-19
home = ru-rt|SCO | score = 9–18
away = ru|WAL | homescore = | awayscore = | stadium = Murrayfield,Edinburgh
attendance =External links
* [http://www.rbs6nations.com/index_6nations.htm The official RBS Six Nations Site]
References
*cite book |last=Jenkins |first=Vivian |authorlink=Vivian Jenkins|editor= |title=Rothmans Rugby Yearbook 1977-78|year=1977 |month= |publisher=Macdonald and Jane's |isbn= 0354090208|pages=p57-68 |chapter= |chapterurl= |quote=
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