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1975 Five Nations Championship
1975 Five Nations Championship
Date	18 January - 15 March 1975
Countries	England; Ireland; France; Scotland; Wales
Tournament statistics
Champions	Wales (18th title)
Matches played	10
Tries scored	36 (3.6 per match)
Top point scorer(s)	Billy McCombe (26)
Top try scorer(s)	Gerald Davies (3)
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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	L	PF	PA	PD	Pts
1	Wales	4	3	1	87	30	+57	6
2	Scotland	4	2	2	47	40	+7	4
2	Ireland	4	2	2	54	67	−13	4
2	France	4	2	2	53	79	−26	4
5	England	4	1	3	40	65	−25	2

Source: ^{[citation needed]}

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

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

1975 Five Nations results

External links

The official RBS Six Nations Site

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

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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>{{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)|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.
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 *[https://web.archive.org/web/20080705165434/http://www.rbs6nations.com/index_6nations.htm The official RBS Six Nations Site]
+{{Six Nations Championship}}
-{{S-start}}
-{{Succession box
-|title=[[Six Nations Championship|Five Nations Championship]]
-|before=[[1974 Five Nations Championship|1974 Five Nations]]
-|after=[[1976 Five Nations Championship|1976 Five Nations]]
-|years='''1975''' }}
-{{S-end}}
-{{Six nations new}}
 [[Category:Six Nations Championship seasons]]
 [[Category:1975 rugby union tournaments for national teams|Five Nations]]
-[[Category:1975 in Irish sport|Five Nations]]
+[[Category:1974–75 in Irish rugby union|Five Nations]]
 [[Category:1974–75 in English rugby union|Five Nations]]
 [[Category:1974–75 in Welsh rugby union|Five Nations]]