1989 Five Nations Championship 1989 Five Nations Championship The 1989 Five Nations Championship was the 60th series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the 95th series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played over five weekends between 21 January and 18 March. France won it with three wins and one defeat (against England), while no British team was able to win the Triple Crown. England entered the final round of matches knowing that a win would certainly clinch the championship, but were overturned in Cardiff as
Rugby union in the Australian Capital Territory the New Zealanders going on to win by 57–5. The Federal Capital Territory Rugby Union was renamed the Australian Capital Territory Rugby Union in 1939. Rugby union expanded quickly after World War II, particularly in New South Wales. The ACT representative team, often referred to simply as "Canberra", grew in stature throughout the 1950s and 1960s as part of the NSW Country Rugby Union. The team won the Caldwell Cup for the Country Championship for the first time in 1964 and went on to win it three times in a row. In 1966, five Canberra players were chosen in the