1975 Five Nations Championship Explained

1975 Five Nations Championship
Date:18 January - 15 March 1975
Countries:



Count:18
Matches:10
Tries:36
Top Point Scorer: Billy McCombe (26)
Top Try Scorer: Gerald Davies (3)
Previous Year:1974
Previous Tournament:1974 Five Nations Championship
Next Year:1976
Next Tournament: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).[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

NationVenueCityHead coachCaptain
TwickenhamLondonJohn BurgessFran Cotton
Parc des PrincesParisJean DesclauxJacques Fouroux/Claude Dourthe
Lansdowne RoadDublinRoly MeatesWillie John McBride
MurrayfieldEdinburghBill DickinsonIan McLauchlan
National StadiumCardiffJohn DawesMervyn Davies

Results

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References

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Wales 32 Ireland 4. 17 March 1975. Glasgow Herald (page 21). 30 August 2013 .