1976 Five Nations Championship

Rugby union competition 1976 Five Nations Championship 10 January - 20 March 1976 ENGIREFRASCOWAL WAL 19 WAL (7th title) WAL (13th title) 10 30 WAL Phil Bennett (38) WAL Gareth Edwards (3) 1975 1975 Five Nations Championship 1977 1977 Five Nations Championship The 1976 Five Nations Championship was the 47th series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the 82nd series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 10 January and 20 March 1976. Wales won their 19th title, with a Grand Slam, and the Triple Crown. The victory consolidated Wales’s dominance during the 1970s, a decade in which they secured three Grand Slams and five championships.Wales’ dominance in the 1970s https://www.wru.wales/history/the-seventies/ Welsh Rugby Union 13 January 2025 The Scotland vs France match was played one week earlier than the England vs Wales fixture, allowing the BBC to cover both that game and the Ireland vs Australia test in Dublin on the same day. Bill Mclaren thus, unusually, commentated on the opening two games of a Five Nations Championship for the first time since the two games per weekend format was introduced in 1974. Participants NationVenueCityHead coachCaptainENGTwickenhamLondonPeter ColstonTony NearyFRAParc des PrincesParisJean DesclauxJacques FourouxIRELansdowne RoadDublinRoly MeatesMike GibsonSCOMurrayfieldEdinburghBill DickinsonIan McLauchlanWALNational StadiumCardiffJohn DawesMervyn Davies Table main WDL Q points 2 WAL WAL FRA FRA SCO SCO IRE IRE ENG ENG 4 0 0 102 37 3 0 1 82 37 2 0 2 49 59 1 0 3 31 87 0 0 4 42 86 #ccffcc A complete Squads each nation's squad for the 1976 Five Nations Championship 1976 Five Nations Championship squads Results 10 January 1976 SCO 6–13 FRA Renwick Morgan Dubertrand Romeu (3) Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh 55,000 K. A. Pattinson (England) 17 January 1976 ENG 9–21 WAL Hignell (3) EdwardsJ. P. R. Williams (2) Fenwick (3) Martin Twickenham Stadium, London G. Domercq (France) 7 February 1976 FRA 26–3 IRE CholleyFourouxPécuneRives BastiatRomeu BastiatRomeu Robbie Parc des Princes, Paris 42,585 A. Welsby (England) 7 February 1976 WAL 28–6 SCO EdwardsEvansJ. J. Williams Bennett (2) Bennett (3) Fenwick Irvine Morgan National Stadium, Cardiff A. Cuny (France) 21 February 1976 IRE 9–34 WAL McGann (3) BennettDavies (2)Edwards Bennett (3) Bennett (3)Martin Lansdowne Road, Dublin N. Sanson (Scotland) 21 February 1976 SCO 22–12 ENG Lawson (2)Leslie Irvine (2) Irvine (2) Maxwell Old Old (2) Murrayfield Stadium, Edinburgh 70,000 D. M. M. Lloyd (Wales) 6 March 1976 WAL 19–13 FRA J. J. Williams Bennett (2)Fenwick (2)Martin AverousGourdon Romeu Romeu National Stadium, Cardiff 55,000 J. R. West (Ireland) 6 March 1976 ENG 12–13 IRE Old (4) Grace McGann (2) McGann Twickenham Stadium, London Alan Hosie (Scotland) 20 March 1976 FRA 30–9 ENG BastiatFourouxGourdonPaparemborde (2)Romeu Romeu (3) Dixon Butler Butler Parc des Princes, Paris 43,611 K. H. Clark (Ireland) 20 March 1976 IRE 6–15 SCO McGann (2) Irvine (4) Wilson Lansdowne Road, Dublin M. S. Lewis (Wales) References External links Sports The official RBS Six Nations Site Category:Six Nations Championship seasons Five Nations Five Nations Five Nations Five Nations Five Nations Five Nations Five Nations Five Nations Five Nations