1977 Five Nations Championship
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The 1977 Five Nations Championship was the forty-eighth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship
. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the eighty-third series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 15 January and 19 March.
won the championship for the sixth time outright. Including shared titles this was France's tenth championship overall. France won the Grand Slam
for the second time and did so with the same fifteen players in all four matches and without conceding a try. No previous Grand Slam winners had achieved either of these feats. won the Triple Crown
for the second consecutive season and the fourteenth time overall, equalling England's record of Triple Crown wins.
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Six Nations Championship
The Six Nations Championship is an annual international rugby union competition involving six European sides: England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales....
. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the eighty-third series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 15 January and 19 March.
won the championship for the sixth time outright. Including shared titles this was France's tenth championship overall. France won the Grand Slam
Grand Slam (Rugby Union)
In rugby union, a Grand Slam occurs when one team in the Six Nations Championship manages to beat all the others during one year's competition...
for the second time and did so with the same fifteen players in all four matches and without conceding a try. No previous Grand Slam winners had achieved either of these feats. won the Triple Crown
Triple Crown (Rugby Union)
In rugby union, the Triple Crown is an honour contested annually by the four national teams of the British Isles who compete within the larger Six Nations Championship: England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. If any one team manages to win all their games against the other three they win the...
for the second consecutive season and the fourteenth time overall, equalling England's record of Triple Crown wins.
Table
| Position | Nation | Games | Points | Table points |
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| Played | Won | Drawn | Lost | For | Against | Difference | |||
| 1 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 21 | 8 | ||
| 2 | 4 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 66 | 43 | 6 | ||
| 3 | 4 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 42 | 24 | |4 | ||
| 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 39 | 85 | −46 | 2 | |
| 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 33 | 65 | −32 | 0 | |
Results
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