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
1950–51 French Rugby Union Championship 1950–51 French Rugby Union Championship The 1949-50 French Rugby Union Championship of first division was contested by 48 teams divided en eight pools de six. Twenty-four teams were qualified to play a second phase with eight pools of three clubs. The first of each pool were qualified to play Quarter of finals. The Championship was won by Carmaux that beat Stadoceste in the final. It were the only titile won by Union Sportive Carmausine. The 1951 Five Nations Championship was won by Ireland, while France finished second. The "Coupe de France" was won by Lourdes that beat Stadoceste in the