The 1950 Five Nations Championship was the twenty-first series of the rugby union
Five Nations Championship
The Six Nations Championship (known as the Six Nations, branded as Guinness M6N) is an annual international rugby union competition by the teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. It is the oldest sports tournament contes ...
. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the fifty-sixth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 14 January and 25 March. It was contested by
England
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,
France
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,
Ireland
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,
Scotland
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and
Wales
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.
Wales
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won their 11th title, and also the
Grand Slam
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and the
Triple Crown.
Participants
The teams involved were:
Table
Results
External links
The official RBS Six Nations Site
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