1997 Five Nations Championship

Rugby union competition January 2021 1997 Five Nations Championship 18 January – 15 March 1997 ENGFRA 1974IRESCOWAL FRA 1974 11 FRA 1974 (5th title) ENG (20th title) 10 50 ENG Paul Grayson (52 points) FRA 1974 David VendittiFRA 1974 Laurent Leflamand (4 tries) 1996 1996 Five Nations Championship 1998 1998 Five Nations Championship The 1997 Five Nations Championship was the sixty-eighth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the hundred-and-third series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played over five weekends from 18 January to 15 March, the crucial match being in Weekend 4 where England inexplicably threw away a 20–6 lead at Twickenham with quarter of the match to go and were pipped by France. France went on to win their first Grand Slam in ten years; England defeated the other Home Nations by large margins to win the Triple Crown. It was the last time that France played at the Parc des Princes, in Paris. Since then, the French team has been playing in the Stade de France, also in Paris.Rothmans Rugby Union Yearbook 1997–98 1997 Headline Book Publishing London 0-7472-7732-X Mick Cleary and John Griffiths Participants The teams involved were: NationVenueCityHead coachCaptainENGTwickenham StadiumLondonJack RowellPhil de GlanvilleFRA 1974Parc des PrincesParisJean-Claude SkrelaAbdelatif BenazziIRELansdowne RoadDublinBrian AshtonKeith Wood/Jim StaplesSCOMurrayfield StadiumEdinburghJim TelferRob WainwrightWALNational StadiumCardiffKevin BowringJonathan Humphreys Squads each nation's squad for the 1997 Five Nations Championship 1997 Five Nations Championship squads Table main WDL Q points 2 FRA FRA 1974 ENG ENG WAL WAL SCO SCO IRE IRE 4 0 0 129 77 3 0 1 141 55 1 0 3 94 106 1 0 3 90 132 1 0 3 57 141 #ccffcc A complete Results Week 1 18 January 1997 15:00 IRE 15–32 Report FRA 1974 Elwood (5) GalthiéVenditti (3) Castaignède (3) Castaignède (2) Lansdowne Road, Dublin 53,000 Andre Watson (South Africa) 18 January 1997 15:00 SCO 19–34 Report WAL S. Hastings Shepherd Shepherd (3) Chalmers EvansN. JenkinsS. QuinnellA. Thomas N. Jenkins (4) N. Jenkins (2) Murrayfield, Edinburgh 67,500 Bertie Smith (Ireland) Week 2 1 February 1997 15:00 ENG 41–13 Report SCO Penalty tryCarlingDe GlanvilleGomarsall Grayson (3) Grayson (5) Eriksson Shepherd Shepherd (2) Twickenham, London 75,000 Paddy O'Brien (New Zealand) 1 February 1997 15:00 WAL 25–26 Report IRE Evans (2)S. Quinnell N. Jenkins (2) N. Jenkins (2) BellHickieMiller Elwood (1) Elwood (3) National Stadium, Cardiff 53,000 Wayne Erickson (Australia) Week 3 15 February 1997 15:00 FRA 1974 27–22 Report WAL Leflamand (2)MerleVenditti Aucagne (1)Dourthe (1) Aucagne BatemanHowleyG. Thomas N. Jenkins (2) N. Jenkins Parc des Princes, Paris 46,000 Peter Marshall (Australia) 15 February 1997 15:00 IRE 6–46 Report ENG Elwood (2) GomarsallHillSleightholme (2)T. Underwood (2) Grayson (2) Grayson (4) Lansdowne Road, Dublin 51,898 Colin Hawke (New Zealand) Week 4 1 March 1997 15:00 ENG 20–23 Report FRA 1974 Dallaglio Grayson (4) Grayson LamaisonLeflamand Lamaison (2) Lamaison (2) Lamaison Twickenham, London 75,000 Jim Fleming (Scotland) 1 March 1997 15:00 SCO 38–10 Report IRE Stanger Tait Townsend Walton Weir Shepherd (5) Shepherd Hickie Humphreys Humphreys Murrayfield, Edinburgh 67,500 Gareth Simmonds (Wales) Week 5 15 March 1997 15:00 FRA 1974 47–20 Report SCO BenazziLeflamandMagneTournaire Lamaison (3) Lamaison (6) Sadourny Tait (2) Shepherd (2) Shepherd (2) Parc des Princes, Paris 49,000 Ed Morrison (England) 15 March 1997 15:00 WAL 13–34 Report ENG Howley J. Davies J. Davies (2) De GlanvilleHillStimpsonT. Underwood Catt (4) Catt (2) National Stadium, Cardiff 53,000 Joel Dume (France) References External links 1997 Five Nations Championship at ESPN Category:1997 rugby union tournaments for national teams 1997 Category:1996–97 in Irish rugby union Category:1996–97 in English rugby union Category:1996–97 in Welsh rugby union Category:1996–97 in Scottish rugby union Category:1996–97 in French rugby union Five Nations Five Nations Five Nations