1975 Five Nations Championship

Rugby union competition 1975 Five Nations Championship 18 January - 15 March 1975 ENGIREFRASCOWAL WAL 18 10 36 IRE rugby union Billy McCombe (26) WAL Gerald Davies (3) 1974 1974 Five Nations Championship 1976 1976 Five Nations Championship The 1975 Five Nations Championship was the forty-sixth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the eighty-first series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 18 January and 15 March. It was contested by England, France, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The championship was won by Wales, the team's eighteenth title (excluding another nine shared championships). https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19750317&printsec=frontpage&hl=en Wales 32 Ireland 4 17 March 1975 Glasgow Herald (page 21) 30 August 2013 The game between Scotland and Wales at the Murrayfield Stadium in Edinburgh on 1 March attracted a World Record rugby attendance of 104,000 fans. This record would not be broken until a Bledisloe Cup game between Australia and New Zealand attracted 107,042 to the Sydney Olympic Stadium in 1999. The attendance at Murrayfield remains the Championship's record crowd, the record attendance in Europe and the third highest rugby attendance in history. With Scotland winning 12-10 it was the only loss for the Welsh during the 1975 Five Nations. Participants NationVenueCityHead coachCaptainENGTwickenhamLondonJohn BurgessFran CottonFRAParc des PrincesParisJean DesclauxJacques Fouroux/Claude DourtheIRELansdowne RoadDublinRoly MeatesWillie John McBrideSCOMurrayfieldEdinburghBill DickinsonIan McLauchlanWALNational StadiumCardiffJohn DawesMervyn Davies Table main WDL Q points 2 WAL WAL SCO SCO IRE 2 IRE FRA 2 FRA ENG ENG 3 0 1 87 30 2 0 2 47 40 2 0 2 54 67 2 0 2 53 79 1 0 3 40 65 #ccffcc A complete Squads each nation's squad for the 1975 Five Nations Championship 1975 Five Nations Championship squads Results 18 January 1975 FRA 10–25 WAL Tries: GourdonPen.: Taffary (2) Tries: CobnerDaviesEdwardsFenwickPriceCon.: FenwickPen.: Fenwick Parc des Princes, Paris 43,603 K. A. Pattinson (England) 18 January 1975 IRE 12–9 ENG Tries: GibsonMcCombeCon.: McCombe (2) Tries: StevensCon.: OldDrops: Old Lansdowne Road, Dublin F. Palmade (France) 1 February 1975 ENG 20–27 FRA Tries: DuckhamRossboroughPen.: Rossborough (4) Tries: EtcheniqueGourdonGuilbertSpangheroCon.: Pariès (4)Pen.: Pariès Twickenham, London 70,000 T. F. E. Grierson (Scotland) 1 February 1975 SCO 20–13 IRE Tries: RenwickSteelePen.: Irvine (2)Drops: McGeechanMorgan Tries: DennisonGraceCon.: McCombePen.: McCombe Murrayfield, Edinburgh R. F. Johnson (England) 15 February 1975 WAL 20–4 ENG Tries: DaviesFenwickJ.J. WilliamsCon.: MartinPen.: Martin (2) Tries: Horton National Stadium, Cardiff Alan Hosie (Scotland) 15 February 1975 FRA 10–9 SCO Tries: DourthePen.: ParièsDrops: Astre Pen.: Irvine (3) Parc des Princes, Paris 43,472 M. S. Lewis (Wales) 1 March 1975 IRE 25–6 FRA Tries: EnsorGraceMcBrideCon.: McCombe (2)Pen.: McCombeDrops: McCombe (2) Pen.: ParièsDrops: Pariès Lansdowne Road, Dublin 50,000 D. M. M. Lloyd (Wales) 1 March 1975 SCO 12–10 WAL Pen.: Morgan (3)Drops: McGeechan Tries: EvansPen.: Fenwick (2) Murrayfield, Edinburgh 104,000 *Rugby Union World Record until 1999 J. R. West (Ireland) Source - Quinn, Encyclopaedia of World Rugby 15 March 1975 WAL 32–4 IRE Tries: BergiersDaviesEdwardsFaulknerJ.J. WilliamsCon.: Bennett (3)Pen.: Bennett (2) Tries: Duggan National Stadium, Cardiff J. Saint-Guillem (France) 15 March 1975 ENG 7–6 SCO Tries: MorleyPen.: Bennett Pen.: Morgan (2) Twickenham, London D. P. d'Arcy (Ireland) References 1975 Five Nations results 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