- 1981 Five Nations Championship
The 1981 Five Nations Championship was the fifty-second series of the rugby union
Five Nations Championship . Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the eighty-seventh series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played betweenJanuary 17 andMarch 21 .Nrut|France were the winners, winning the championship outright for the eighth time. They had also shared the title on four other occasions. In winning all their four matches they also won the Grand Slam for the third time.
Table
Results
rugbybox
date =1981-01-17
home = ru-rt|FRA | score = 16–9
away = ru|SCO | homescore = Tries: Blanco
Bertranne c
Con: Caussade
Pen: Vivies
Gabernet | awayscore = Tries: Rutherford c
Con: Renwick
Pen: Irvine | stadium =Parc des Princes ,Paris
attendance =
referee= K Rowlands flagicon|WALrugbybox
date =1981-01-17
home = ru-rt|WAL | score = 21–19
away = ru|ENG | homescore = Tries: Davis c
Con: Fenwick
Pen: Fenwick (4)
Drop: Davies | awayscore = Tries: Hare
Pen: Hare (5) | stadium = National Stadium,Cardiff
attendance =
referee= J.B. Anderson flagicon|SCO----rugbybox
date =1981-02-07
home = ru-rt|IRE | score = 13–19
away = ru|FRA | homescore = Tries: MacNeill
Pen: Campbell (3) | awayscore = Tries: Pardo
Pen: Laporte (2)
Gabernet
Drop: Laporte (2)| stadium =Lansdowne Road ,Dublin
attendance =
referee=rugbybox
date =1981-02-07
home = ru-rt|SCO | score = 15–6
away = ru|WAL | homescore = Tries: Tomes
Irvine c
Con: Renwick
Pen: Renwick| awayscore = Pen: Fenwick (2)| stadium = Murrayfield,Edinburgh
attendance =
referee= D.I.H. Burnett flagicon|IRE----rugbybox
date =1981-02-21
home = ru-rt|WAL | score = 9–8
away = ru|IRE
homescore = Pen: Evans (2)
Drop: Pearce | awayscore = Tries: Slattery
MacNeill | stadium = National Stadium,Cardiff
attendance =
referee= F Palmade flagicon|FRArugbybox
date =1981-02-21
home = ru-rt|ENG | score = 23–17
away = ru|SCO | homescore = Tries: Woodward c
Slemen
Davies
Con: Hare
Pen: Hare (3) | awayscore = Tries: Munro
Munro c
Calder
Con: Irvine
Pen: Irvine | stadium = Twickenham,London
attendance =
referee= D.I.H. Burnett flagicon|IRE----rugbybox
date =1981-03-07
home = ru-rt|FRA | score = 19–15
away = ru|WAL | homescore = Tries: Gabernet
Pen: Laporte (3)
Gabernet (2) | awayscore = Tries: Richards c
Con: Evans
Pen: Evans (2)| stadium =Parc des Princes ,Paris
attendance =
referee= A Welsby flagicon|ENGrugbybox
date =1981-03-07
home = ru-rt|IRE | score = 6–10
away = ru|ENG | homescore = Drop: MacNeill
Campbell
awayscore = Tries: Rose
Dodge c
Con: Rose
stadium =Lansdowne Road ,Dublin
attendance =
referee= J P Bonnett flagicon|FRA----rugbybox
date =1981-03-21
home = ru-rt|ENG | score = 12–16
away = ru|FRA | homescore = Pen: Rose (4)| awayscore = Tries: Lacans
Pardo c
Con: Laporte
Drop: Laporte (2) | stadium = Twickenham,London
attendance =
referee= A L Hosie flagicon|SCOrugbybox
date =1981-03-21
home = ru-rt|SCO | score = 10–9
away = ru|IRE | homescore = Tries: Hay
Pen: Irvine
Drop: Rutherford | awayscore = Tries: Irwin
Con: Campbell
Pen: Campbell | stadium = Murrayfield,Edinburgh
attendance =
referee= L M Prideaux flagicon|ENG----
External links
* [http://www.rbs6nations.com/index_6nations.htm The official RBS Six Nations Site]
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