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The '''1975 Five Nations Championship''' was the forty-sixth series of the rugby union [[Six Nations Championship|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 national rugby union team|England]], [[France national rugby union team|France]], [[Ireland national rugby union team|Ireland]], [[Scotland national rugby union team|Scotland]], and [[Wales national rugby union team|Wales]]. The championship was won by Wales, the team's eighteenth title (excluding another nine shared championships).<ref>{{citeweb|url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19750317&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|title= Wales 32 Ireland 4|date=17 March 1975|work=Glasgow Herald (page 21)|accessdate=30 August 2013 }}</ref>
The '''1975 Five Nations Championship''' was the forty-sixth series of the rugby union [[Six Nations Championship|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 national rugby union team|England]], [[France national rugby union team|France]], [[Ireland national rugby union team|Ireland]], [[Scotland national rugby union team|Scotland]], and [[Wales national rugby union team|Wales]]. The championship was won by Wales, the team's eighteenth title (excluding another nine shared championships).<ref>{{cite web|url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=GGgVawPscysC&dat=19750317&printsec=frontpage&hl=en|title= Wales 32 Ireland 4|date=17 March 1975|work=Glasgow Herald (page 21)|access-date=30 August 2013 }}</ref>


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 [[The Wallabies|Australia]] and [[All Blacks|New Zealand]] attracted 107,042 to the [[ANZ Stadium|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.
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 national rugby union team|Australia]] and [[All Blacks|New Zealand]] attracted 107,042 to the [[ANZ Stadium|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==
==Participants==
{| class="wikitable"
The teams involved were:
|-
{|class="wikitable"
!'''Nation'''
!Nation
!'''Venue'''
!Venue
!'''City'''
!City
!'''Head coach'''
!Head coach
!Captain
|-
|-
|{{ru|ENG}}
|{{ru|ENG}}
|[[Twickenham Stadium|Twickenham]]
|[[Twickenham Stadium|Twickenham]]
|[[London]]
|[[London]]
|John Burgess
|[[John Burgess (rugby union)|John Burgess]]
|[[Fran Cotton]]
|-
|-
|{{ru|FRA}}
|{{ru|FRA}}
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|[[Paris]]
|[[Paris]]
|[[Jean Desclaux]]
|[[Jean Desclaux]]
|[[Jacques Fouroux]]/[[Claude Dourthe]]
|-
|-
|{{Ru|IRE}}
|{{Ru|IRE}}
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|[[Dublin]]
|[[Dublin]]
|[[Roly Meates]]
|[[Roly Meates]]
|[[Willie John McBride]]
|-
|-
|{{ru|SCO}}
|{{ru|SCO}}
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|[[Edinburgh]]
|[[Edinburgh]]
|[[Bill Dickinson]]
|[[Bill Dickinson]]
|[[Ian McLauchlan]]
|-
|-
|{{ru|WAL}}
|{{ru|WAL}}
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|[[Cardiff]]
|[[Cardiff]]
|[[John Dawes]]
|[[John Dawes]]
|[[Mervyn Davies (rugby union)|Mervyn Davies]]
|}
|}


==Table==
==Table==
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!rowspan=2 width="18%"| Nation
|team1=WAL|name_WAL={{Ru|WAL}}
!colspan=4 width="32%"| Games
|team2=SCO|name_SCO={{Ru|SCO}}
!colspan=3 width="32%"| Points
|team3=IRE|pos_IRE=2|name_IRE={{Ru|IRE}}
!rowspan=2 width="10%"| Table<br/>points
|team4=FRA|pos_FRA=2|name_FRA={{Ru|FRA}}
|-
|team5=ENG|name_ENG={{Ru|ENG}}
!width="8%"| Played
|win_WAL=3|draw_WAL=0|loss_WAL=1|pf_WAL=87|pa_WAL=30
!width="8%"| Won
|win_SCO=2|draw_SCO=0|loss_SCO=2|pf_SCO=47|pa_SCO=40
!width="8%"| Drawn
|win_IRE=2|draw_IRE=0|loss_IRE=2|pf_IRE=54|pa_IRE=67
!width="8%"| Lost
|win_FRA=2|draw_FRA=0|loss_FRA=2|pf_FRA=53|pa_FRA=79
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|win_ENG=1|draw_ENG=0|loss_ENG=3|pf_ENG=40|pa_ENG=65
!width="8%"| Against

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|2||align=left|{{Ru|SCO}}
==Squads==
|4||2||0||2||47||40||+7||'''4'''
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|2||align=left|{{Ru|IRE}}
|4||2||0||2||54||67||&minus;13||'''4'''
|-
|2||align=left|{{Ru|FRA}}
|4||2||0||2||53||79||&minus;26||'''4'''
|-
|5||align=left|{{Ru|ENG}}
|4||1||0||3||40||65||&minus;25||'''2'''
|-
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==Results==
==Results==
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score = 10&ndash;25 |
score = 10&ndash;25 |
away = {{Ru|WAL}} |
away = {{Ru|WAL}} |
homescore = '''Tries''': [[Jean-François Gourdon|Gourdon]]<br />'''Pen.''': [[Michel Taffary|Taffary]] (2) |
homescore = |
awayscore = '''Tries''': [[Terry Cobner|Cobner]]<br />[[Gerald Davies|Davies]]<br />[[Gareth Edwards|Edwards]]<br />[[Steve Fenwick|Fenwick]]<br />[[Graham Price|Price]]<br />'''Con.''': [[Steve Fenwick|Fenwick]]<br />'''Pen.''': [[Steve Fenwick|Fenwick]] |
awayscore = |
stadium = [[Parc des Princes]], [[Paris]] |
stadium = [[Parc des Princes]], [[Paris]] |
attendance = }}
attendance = 43,603 |
referee = K. A. Pattinson (England)}}


{{Rugbybox |
{{Rugbybox |
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score = 12&ndash;9 |
score = 12&ndash;9 |
away = {{Ru|ENG}} |
away = {{Ru|ENG}} |
homescore = '''Tries''': [[Mike Gibson (rugby union)|Gibson]]<br />[[Billy McCombe|McCombe]]<br />'''Con.''': [[Billy McCombe|McCombe]] (2) |
homescore = |
awayscore = '''Tries''': [[Stack Stevens|Stevens]]<br />'''Con.''': [[Alan Old|Old]]<br />'''Drops''': [[Alan Old|Old]] |
awayscore = |
stadium = [[Lansdowne Road]], [[Dublin]] |
stadium = [[Lansdowne Road]], [[Dublin]] |
attendance = }}
attendance = |
referee = F. Palmade (France)}}


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score = 20&ndash;27 |
score = 20&ndash;27 |
away = {{Ru|FRA}} |
away = {{Ru|FRA}} |
homescore = '''Tries''': [[David Duckham|Duckham]]<br />[[Peter Rossborough|Rossborough]]<br />'''Pen.''': [[Peter Rossborough|Rossborough]] (4) |
homescore = |
awayscore = '''Tries''': [[Jean-Martin Etchenique|Etchenique]]<br />[[Jean-François Gourdon|Gourdon]]<br />[[Alain Guilbert|Guilbert]]<br />[[Claude Spanghero|Spanghero]]<br />'''Con.''': [[Lucien Pariès|Pariès]] (4)<br />'''Pen.''': [[Lucien Pariès|Pariès]] |
awayscore = |
stadium = [[Twickenham Stadium|Twickenham]], [[London]] |
stadium = [[Twickenham Stadium|Twickenham]], [[London]] |
attendance = }}
attendance = 70,000 |
referee = T. F. E. Grierson (Scotland)}}


{{Rugbybox |
{{Rugbybox |
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score = 20&ndash;13 |
score = 20&ndash;13 |
away = {{Ru|IRE}} |
away = {{Ru|IRE}} |
homescore = '''Tries''': [[Jim Renwick|Renwick]]<br />[[William Steele (rugby union)|Steele]]<br />'''Pen.''': [[Andy Irvine (rugby union)|Irvine]] (2)<br />'''Drops''': [[Ian McGeechan|McGeechan]]<br />[[Dougie Morgan|Morgan]] |
homescore = |
awayscore = '''Tries''': [[Seamus Dennison|Dennison]]<br />[[Tom Grace|Grace]]<br />'''Con.''': [[Billy McCombe|McCombe]]<br />'''Pen.''': [[Billy McCombe|McCombe]] |
awayscore = |
stadium = [[Murrayfield Stadium|Murrayfield]], [[Edinburgh]] |
stadium = [[Murrayfield Stadium|Murrayfield]], [[Edinburgh]] |
attendance = }}
attendance = |
referee = R. F. Johnson (England)}}


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score = 20&ndash;4 |
score = 20&ndash;4 |
away = {{Ru|ENG}} |
away = {{Ru|ENG}} |
homescore = '''Tries''': [[Gerald Davies|Davies]]<br />[[Steve Fenwick|Fenwick]]<br />[[J. J. Williams (rugby union)|J.J. Williams]]<br />'''Con.''': [[Allan Martin (rugby union)|Martin]]<br />'''Pen.''': [[Allan Martin (rugby union)|Martin]] (2) |
homescore = |
awayscore = |
awayscore = '''Tries''': [[Nigel Horton|Horton]] |
stadium = [[Cardiff Arms Park|National Stadium]], [[Cardiff]] |
stadium = [[Cardiff Arms Park|National Stadium]], [[Cardiff]] |
attendance = }}
attendance = |
referee = [[Alan Hosie]] (Scotland)}}


{{Rugbybox |
{{Rugbybox |
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score = 10&ndash;9 |
score = 10&ndash;9 |
away = {{Ru|SCO}} |
away = {{Ru|SCO}} |
homescore = '''Tries''': [[Claude Dourthe|Dourthe]]<br />'''Pen.''': [[Lucien Pariès|Pariès]]<br />'''Drops''': [[Richard Astre|Astre]] |
homescore = |
awayscore = |
awayscore = '''Pen.''': [[Andy Irvine (rugby union)|Irvine]] (3) |
stadium = [[Parc des Princes]], [[Paris]] |
stadium = [[Parc des Princes]], [[Paris]] |
attendance = }}
attendance = 43,472 |
referee = M. S. Lewis (Wales)}}


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score = 25&ndash;6 |
score = 25&ndash;6 |
away = {{Ru|FRA}} |
away = {{Ru|FRA}} |
homescore = '''Tries''': [[Tony Ensor (rugby union, born 1949)|Ensor]]<br />[[Tom Grace|Grace]]<br />[[Willie John McBride|McBride]]<br />'''Con.''': [[Billy McCombe|McCombe]] (2)<br />'''Pen.''': [[Billy McCombe|McCombe]]<br />'''Drops''': [[Billy McCombe|McCombe]] (2) |
homescore = |
awayscore = '''Pen.''': [[Lucien Pariès|Pariès]]<br />'''Drops''': [[Lucien Pariès|Pariès]] |
awayscore = |
stadium = [[Lansdowne Road]], [[Dublin]] |
stadium = [[Lansdowne Road]], [[Dublin]] |
attendance = }}
attendance = 50,000 |
referee = D. M. M. Lloyd (Wales)}}


{{Rugbybox |
{{Rugbybox |
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score = 12&ndash;10 |
score = 12&ndash;10 |
away = {{Ru|WAL}} |
away = {{Ru|WAL}} |
homescore = '''Pen.''': [[Dougie Morgan|Morgan]] (3)<br />'''Drops''': [[Ian McGeechan|McGeechan]] |
homescore = |
awayscore = '''Tries''': [[Trefor Evans|Evans]]<br />'''Pen.''': [[Steve Fenwick|Fenwick]] (2) |
awayscore = |
stadium = [[Murrayfield Stadium|Murrayfield]], [[Edinburgh]] |
stadium = [[Murrayfield Stadium|Murrayfield]], [[Edinburgh]] |
attendance = }}
attendance = 104,000 *Rugby Union World Record until 1999 |
referee = J. R. West (Ireland)}}

* Source - Quinn, Encyclopaedia of World Rugby


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score = 32&ndash;4 |
score = 32&ndash;4 |
away = {{Ru|IRE}} |
away = {{Ru|IRE}} |
homescore = '''Tries''': [[Roy Bergiers|Bergiers]]<br />[[Gerald Davies|Davies]]<br />[[Gareth Edwards|Edwards]]<br />[[Charlie Faulkner|Faulkner]]<br />[[J. J. Williams (rugby union)|J.J. Williams]]<br />'''Con.''': [[Phil Bennett|Bennett]] (3)<br />'''Pen.''': [[Phil Bennett|Bennett]] (2) |
homescore = |
awayscore = |
awayscore = '''Tries''': [[Willie Duggan|Duggan]] |
stadium = [[Cardiff Arms Park|National Stadium]], [[Cardiff]] |
stadium = [[Cardiff Arms Park|National Stadium]], [[Cardiff]] |
attendance = }}
attendance = |
referee = J. Saint-Guillem (France)}}


{{Rugbybox |
{{Rugbybox |
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score = 7&ndash;6 |
score = 7&ndash;6 |
away = {{Ru|SCO}} |
away = {{Ru|SCO}} |
homescore = '''Tries''': [[Alan Morley|Morley]]<br />'''Pen.''': [[Neil Bennett (rugby union)|Bennett]] |
homescore = |
awayscore = |
awayscore = '''Pen.''': [[Dougie Morgan|Morgan]] (2) |
stadium = [[Twickenham Stadium|Twickenham]], [[London]] |
stadium = [[Twickenham Stadium|Twickenham]], [[London]] |
attendance = }}
attendance = |
referee = D. P. d'Arcy (Ireland)}}


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
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Revision as of 23:49, 7 August 2024

1975 Five Nations Championship
Date18 January - 15 March 1975
Countries England
 Ireland
 France
 Scotland
 Wales
Tournament statistics
Champions Wales (18th title)
Matches played10
Tries scored36 (3.6 per match)
Top point scorer(s)Ireland Billy McCombe (26)
Top try scorer(s)Wales Gerald Davies (3)
← 1974 (Previous) (Next) 1976 →

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).[1]

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

Nation Venue City Head coach Captain
 England Twickenham London John Burgess Fran Cotton
 France Parc des Princes Paris Jean Desclaux Jacques Fouroux/Claude Dourthe
 Ireland Lansdowne Road Dublin Roly Meates Willie John McBride
 Scotland Murrayfield Edinburgh Bill Dickinson Ian McLauchlan
 Wales National Stadium Cardiff John Dawes Mervyn Davies

Table

Pos Team Pld W D L PF PA PD Pts
1  Wales 4 3 0 1 87 30 +57 6
2  Scotland 4 2 0 2 47 40 +7 4
2  Ireland 4 2 0 2 54 67 −13 4
2  France 4 2 0 2 53 79 −26 4
5  England 4 1 0 3 40 65 −25 2
Source: [citation needed]

Squads

For each nation's squad for the 1975 Five Nations Championship, see 1975 Five Nations Championship squads.

Results

18 January 1975
France 10–25 Wales
Tries: Gourdon
Pen.: Taffary (2)		Tries: Cobner
Davies
Edwards
Fenwick
Price
Con.: Fenwick
Pen.: Fenwick
Parc des Princes, Paris
Attendance: 43,603
Referee: K. A. Pattinson (England)
18 January 1975
Ireland 12–9 England
Tries: Gibson
McCombe
Con.: McCombe (2)		Tries: Stevens
Con.: Old
Drops: Old
Lansdowne Road, Dublin
Referee: F. Palmade (France)
1 February 1975
England 20–27 France
Tries: Duckham
Rossborough
Pen.: Rossborough (4)		Tries: Etchenique
Gourdon
Guilbert
Spanghero
Con.: Pariès (4)
Pen.: Pariès
Twickenham, London
Attendance: 70,000
Referee: T. F. E. Grierson (Scotland)
1 February 1975
Scotland 20–13 Ireland
Tries: Renwick
Steele
Pen.: Irvine (2)
Drops: McGeechan
Morgan		Tries: Dennison
Grace
Con.: McCombe
Pen.: McCombe
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Referee: R. F. Johnson (England)
15 February 1975
Wales 20–4 England
Tries: Davies
Fenwick
J.J. Williams
Con.: Martin
Pen.: Martin (2)		Tries: Horton
National Stadium, Cardiff
Referee: Alan Hosie (Scotland)
15 February 1975
France 10–9 Scotland
Tries: Dourthe
Pen.: Pariès
Drops: Astre		Pen.: Irvine (3)
Parc des Princes, Paris
Attendance: 43,472
Referee: M. S. Lewis (Wales)
1 March 1975
Ireland 25–6 France
Tries: Ensor
Grace
McBride
Con.: McCombe (2)
Pen.: McCombe
Drops: McCombe (2)		Pen.: Pariès
Drops: Pariès
Lansdowne Road, Dublin
Attendance: 50,000
Referee: D. M. M. Lloyd (Wales)
1 March 1975
Scotland 12–10 Wales
Pen.: Morgan (3)
Drops: McGeechan		Tries: Evans
Pen.: Fenwick (2)
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Attendance: 104,000 *Rugby Union World Record until 1999
Referee: J. R. West (Ireland)
  • Source - Quinn, Encyclopaedia of World Rugby
15 March 1975
Wales 32–4 Ireland
Tries: Bergiers
Davies
Edwards
Faulkner
J.J. Williams
Con.: Bennett (3)
Pen.: Bennett (2)		Tries: Duggan
National Stadium, Cardiff
Referee: J. Saint-Guillem (France)
15 March 1975
England 7–6 Scotland
Tries: Morley
Pen.: Bennett		Pen.: Morgan (2)
Twickenham, London
Referee: D. P. d'Arcy (Ireland)

References

  1. ^ "Wales 32 Ireland 4". Glasgow Herald (page 21). 17 March 1975. Retrieved 30 August 2013.


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