1971 Five Nations Championship

Season of the six nations' tournament

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)
| ← 1970 (Previous) | (Next) 1972 →

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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.

## Participants

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The teams involved were:

Nation | Venue | City | Head coach | Captain

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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

## Table

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Pos | Team  | Pld | W | D | L | PF | PA | PD | Pts

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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

Source: [citation needed]

## Squads

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For each nation's squad for the 1971 Five Nations Championship, see 1971 Five Nations Championship squads.

## Results

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1971-01-16

France | 13–8|  Scotland

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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

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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)

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1971-01-30

Ireland | 9–9|  France

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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

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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

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Tries: Grant
Duggan| | Pen: Hiller (3)
Lansdowne Road, Dublin
Referee: M. Joseph (Wales)

1971-02-27

Scotland | 5–17|  Ireland

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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

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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

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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

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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

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Tries: Dauga
Con: Villepreux| | Tries: Edwards
John
Pen.: John
Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes
Attendance: 50,703
Referee: J. Young (Scotland)

## References

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1. ^ "Scoring history". Rugby Football History. Retrieved 15 November 2016.

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