1997 Five Nations Championship 1997 Five Nations Championship The 1997 Five Nations Championship was the sixty-eighth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the hundred-and-third series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played over five weekends from 18 January to 15 March, the crucial match being in Weekend 4 where England inexplicably threw away a 20-6 lead at Twickenham with quarter of the match to go and were pipped by France. France went on to win their first Grand Slam in ten years; England defeated the
1921–22 French Rugby Union Championship of five played, with the winners qualifying onto the final. Pool A Pool B 1921–22 French Rugby Union Championship The 1921–22 French Rugby Union Championship of first division was won by Toulouse beating Bayonne in the final. The qualification round was completed by two pools of five teams. Stade Toulousain and Bayonne were the teams who qualified to the final. The 1922 Five Nations Championship was won by Wales, while France came last. Thirty clubs participated, divided into 10 pools of 3 (with home and away matches). 3 points were awarded for a win, 2 for a draw, 1 for