1978 Five Nations Championship

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The 1978 Five Nations Championship was the forty-ninth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the eighty-fourth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between January 21 and March 18, 1978. The tournament was contested by England, France, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales. The championship was won by Wales, the twentieth time the team won the competition outright. The Welsh had won another nine titles, which were shared with other teams.Having won all four of their games, Wales also won the Grand Slam, the eighth occasion the team did so. Victories over England, Ireland and Scotland (the Home Nations), also meant Wales won the Triple Crown for the third consecutive time, a record, given no other team had ever won the Triple Crown more than twice in a row. It was Wales' fifteenth in total, also a record, surpassing the fourteen won by England.

1 Table
2 Results
3 References
4 External links

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Position	Nation	Games				Points			Table points
Position	Nation	Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference	Table points
1	Wales	4	4	0	0	67	43	+24	8
2	France	4	3	0	1	51	47	+4	6
3	England	4	2	0	2	42	33	+9	4
4	Ireland	4	1	0	3	46	54	−8	2
5	Scotland	4	0	0	4	39	68	−29	0

[edit] Results

1978-01-21
	France	15–6	England	Parc des Princes, Paris
				Parc des Princes, Paris

1978-01-21
	Ireland	12–9	Scotland	Lansdowne Road, Dublin
				Lansdowne Road, Dublin

1978-02-04
	Scotland	16–19	France	Murrayfield, Edinburgh
				Murrayfield, Edinburgh

1978-02-04
	England	6–9	Wales	Twickenham, London
				Twickenham, London

1978-02-18
	Wales	22–14	Scotland	National Stadium, Cardiff
				National Stadium, Cardiff

1978-02-18
	France	10–9	Ireland	Parc des Princes, Paris
				Parc des Princes, Paris

1978-03-04
	Scotland	0–15	England	Murrayfield, Edinburgh
				Murrayfield, Edinburgh

1978-03-04
	Ireland	16–20	Wales	Lansdowne Road, Dublin
				Lansdowne Road, Dublin

1978-03-18
	Wales	16–7	France	National Stadium, Cardiff
				National Stadium, Cardiff

1978-03-18
	England	15–9	Ireland	Twickenham, London
				Twickenham, London

[edit] References

1978 Five Nations results

[edit] External links

Rugby union Portal

The official RBS Six Nations Site

Preceded by 1977 Five Nations	Five Nations Championship 1978	Succeeded by 1979 Five Nations

v • d • e Six Nations Championship

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