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
1954–55 French Rugby Union Championship 1954–55 French Rugby Union Championship The 1954-55 French Rugby Union Championship of first division was contested by 48 clubs divided into six pools of eight. The five better of each pool and the two better sixths (for a sum of 32 clubs) were qualified to play a "single match play-off" tournament. Previously the FFR created three divisions: Nationale (or first division), Fédérale (second division) and Excellence (third division). The Championship of first division was won by the Perpignan that defeated Lourdes in the final. It was the sixth won by Perpignan. The 1955 Five Nations Championship was won by Wales