The 1965 Five Nations Championship was the thirty-sixth series of the rugby union

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. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the seventy-first series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 9 January and 27 March. It was contested by

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and

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. missed out on a fourth

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after losing to at

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despite winning the title.

Participants

The teams involved were:

Table

Results

External links

The official RBS Six Nations Site
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