1976 Five Nations Championship
The 1976 Five Nations Championship was the 47th series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the 82nd series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 10 January and 20 March 1976.
Wales won their 19th title, with a Grand Slam, and the Triple Crown. The victory consolidated Wales’s dominance during the 1970s, a decade in which they secured three Grand Slams and five championships.
The Scotland vs France match was played one week earlier than the England vs Wales fixture, allowing the BBC to cover both that game and the Ireland vs Australia test in Dublin on the same day. Bill Mclaren thus, unusually, commentated on the opening two games of a Five Nations Championship for the first time since the two games per weekend format was introduced in 1974.
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