1972 Five Nations Championship

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The 1972 Five Nations Championship was the forty-third series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the seventy-eighth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. The championship was not completed for the first time since World War II. Scotland and Wales refused to travel to Dublin to play Ireland because members of their teams had received anonymous threatening letters, purportedly from the IRA.^{[citation needed]} Although the remaining fixtures of the schedule were fulfilled, as both Ireland and Wales won all their matches, neither could claim the title. To fill the gap of the missing two fixtures, France played a friendly match in Dublin (in addition to the scheduled match in Paris). In total nine matches were played between January 15 and April 29. It was contested by England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.

[edit] Table

Position	Nation	Games				Points			Table points
		Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference
1	Wales	3	3	0	0	67	21	+46	6
2	Ireland	2	2	0	0	30	21	+9	4
3	Scotland	3	2	0	1	55	53	+2	4
4	France	4	1	0	3	62	66	−4	2
5	England	4	0	0	4	36	88	−52	0

[edit] Results

1972-01-15
	England	3–12	Wales	Twickenham, London

1972-01-15
	Scotland	20–9	France	Murrayfield, Edinburgh

1972-01-29
	France	9–14	Ireland	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes

1972-02-05
	Wales	35–12	Scotland	National Stadium, Cardiff

1972-02-12
	England	12–16	Ireland	Twickenham, London

1972-02-26
	France	37–12	England	Stade Olympique Yves-du-Manoir, Colombes

1972-03-18
	Scotland	23–9	England	Murrayfield, Edinburgh

1972-02-25
	Wales	20–6	France	National Stadium, Cardiff

1972-04-29
	Ireland	24–14 (Friendly)	France	Lansdowne Road, Dublin

[edit] External links

Rugby union Portal

• The official RBS Six Nations Site

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