1971 Five Nations Championship

1971 Five Nations Championship
Date	16 January - 27 March 1971
Countries	England  Ireland  France  Scotland  Wales
Tournament statistics
Champions	Wales (17th title)
Grand Slam	Wales (6th title)
Triple Crown	Wales (12th title)
Matches played	10
Tries scored	35 (3.5 per match)
Top point scorer(s)	Bob Hiller (35)
Top try scorer(s)	Davies (5)
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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. 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.

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.

The teams involved were:

Nation	Venue	City	Head coach	Captain
England	Twickenham	London	Don White	Tony Bucknall/John Spencer
France	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir	Colombes	Fernand Cazenave	Benoît Dauga/Christian Carrère
Ireland	Lansdowne Road	Dublin	Ronnie Dawson	Tom Kiernan/Mike Gibson
Scotland	Murrayfield	Edinburgh	Bill Dickinson	Peter Brown
Wales	National Stadium	Cardiff	Clive Rowlands	John Dawes

Pos	Team	Pld	W	D	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
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

1971-01-16

France	13–8	Scotland
Tries: Sillières Villepreux Con: Villepreux (2) Pen: Villepreux		Tries: Steele Con: Brown Pen: Smith

Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes Attendance: 32,466 Referee: K. D. Kelleher (Ireland)

1971-01-16

Wales	22–6	England
Tries: Bevan Davies (2) Con: Taylor (2) Pen: Williams Drop: John (2)		Tries: Hannaford Pen: Rossborough

National Stadium, Cardiff Referee: D. P. d'Arcy (Ireland)

1971-01-30

Ireland	9–9	France
Tries: Grant Pen: O'Driscoll (2)		Pen: Villepreux (2) Drop: Bérot

Lansdowne Road, Dublin Attendance: 55,000 Referee: G. C. Lamb (England)

1971-02-06

Scotland	18–19	Wales
Tries: Carmichael Rea Pen: Brown (4)		Tries: Taylor Edwards John Davies Con: John Taylor Pen: John

Murrayfield, Edinburgh Referee: M. H. Titcomb (England)

1971-02-13

Ireland	6–9	England
Tries: Grant Duggan		Pen: Hiller (3)

Lansdowne Road, Dublin Referee: M. Joseph (Wales)

1971-02-27

Scotland	5–17	Ireland
Tries: Frame Con: Brown		Tries: Duggan (2) Grant Con: Gibson Pen: Gibson (2)

Murrayfield, Edinburgh Referee: W. K. M. Jones (Wales)

1971-02-27

England	14–14	France
Tries: Hiller Con: Hiller Pen: Hiller (3)		Tries: Bertranne Cantoni Con: Villepreux Pen: Villepreux Drop: Bérot

Twickenham, London Attendance: 70,000 Referee: A. R. Lewis (Wales)

1971-03-13

Wales	23–9	Ireland
Tries: Davies (2) Edwards (2) Con: John Pen: John (2) Drop: John		Pen: Gibson (3)

National Stadium, Cardiff Referee: R. F. Johnson (England)

1971-03-20

England	15–16	Scotland
Tries: Hiller Neary Pen: Hiller (3)		Tries: Brown Paterson Rea Con: Brown (2) Drop: Paterson

Twickenham, London Referee: C. Durand (France)

1971-03-27

France	5–9	Wales
Tries: Dauga Con: Villepreux		Tries: Edwards John Pen.: John

Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes Attendance: 50,703 Referee: J. Young (Scotland)

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