1975 Five Nations Championship

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1975 Five Nations Championship
Date18 January - 15 March 1975
CountriesFlag of England.svg  England
IRFU flag.svg  Ireland
Flag of France.svg  France
Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales
Tournament statistics
Champions Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales (18th title)
Matches played10
Tries scored36 (3.6 per match)
Top point scorer(s) IRFU flag.svg Billy McCombe (26)
Top try scorer(s) Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg 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]

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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
Flag of England.svg  England Twickenham London John Burgess Fran Cotton
Flag of France.svg  France Parc des Princes Paris Jean Desclaux Jacques Fouroux/Claude Dourthe
IRFU flag.svg  Ireland Lansdowne Road Dublin Roly Meates Willie John McBride
Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland Murrayfield Edinburgh Bill Dickinson Ian McLauchlan
Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales National Stadium Cardiff John Dawes Mervyn Davies

Table

PosTeamPldWDLPFPAPDPts
1Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  Wales 43018730+576
2Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland 42024740+74
2IRFU flag.svg  Ireland 42025467134
2Flag of France.svg  France 42025379264
5Flag of England.svg  England 41034065252
Source: [ citation needed ]

Squads

Results

18 January 1975
France  Flag of France.svg1025Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  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  IRFU flag.svg129Flag of England.svg  England
Tries: Gibson
McCombe
Con.: McCombe (2)
Tries: Stevens
Con.: Old
Drops: Old
Lansdowne Road, Dublin
Referee: F. Palmade (France)

1 February 1975
England  Flag of England.svg2027Flag of France.svg  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  Flag of Scotland.svg2013IRFU flag.svg  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  Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg204Flag of England.svg  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  Flag of France.svg109Flag of Scotland.svg  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  IRFU flag.svg256Flag of France.svg  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  Flag of Scotland.svg1210Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg  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  Flag of Wales (1959-present).svg324IRFU flag.svg  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  Flag of England.svg76Flag of Scotland.svg  Scotland
Tries: Morley
Pen.: Bennett
Pen.: Morgan (2)
Twickenham, London
Referee: D. P. d'Arcy (Ireland)

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References

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