1985 Five Nations Championship

1985 Five Nations Championship
Date 2 February 1985 - 20 April 1985
Countries  England
 Ireland
 France
 Scotland
 Wales
Tournament statistics
Champions  Ireland (10th title)
Triple Crown  Ireland (6th title)
Calcutta Cup  England
Matches played 10
Top point scorer(s) Ireland Michael Kiernan (42 points)
Top try scorer(s) Ireland Trevor Ringland (3 tries)
1984 (Previous) (Next) 1986

The 1985 Five Nations Championship was the fifty-sixth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the ninety-first series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 2 February and 20 April. The championship was contested by England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. The championship winner was Ireland, winning their tenth title (excluding eight other shared titles); it would prove to be their last in 24 years, until their Grand Slam in 2009. Ireland also claimed the Triple Crown, their sixth, which would be their last until 2004.

The tournament suffered three match postponements due to bad weather. The opening fixtures, Ireland v England and France v Wales, were postponed to late March and the Wales v England match was put back from February to April because of a frozen pitch in Cardiff. The rescheduled match was notable for the debut, at fly half for Wales, of Jonathan Davies.[1]


Participants

The teams involved were:

Nation Venue City Head coach
 England Twickenham London Dick Greenwood
 France Parc des Princes Paris Jacques Fouroux
 Ireland Lansdowne Road Dublin Mick Doyle
 Scotland Murrayfield Edinburgh Derrick Grant
 Wales National Stadium Cardiff John Bevan

Table

Position Nation Games Points Table
points
Played Won Drawn Lost For Against Difference
1 Ireland 43106749+187
2 France 42204930+196
3 Wales 42026171104
4 England 4112445393
5 Scotland 40044664180

Squads

For each nation's squad for the 1985 Five Nations Championship, see 1985 Five Nations Championship squads.

Results

1985-02-02
England  99  France
Pen.: Andrew (2)
Drops: Andrew
report Drops: Lescarboura (3)
Twickenham, London
Attendance: 60,000
Referee: D. I. H. Burnett (Ireland)
1985-02-02
Scotland  1518  Ireland
Pen.: Dods (4)
Drops: Rutherford
Report Tries: Ringland (2)
Con.: Kiernan (2)
Pen.: Kiernan
Drops: Kiernan
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Referee: S. Strydom (South Africa)

1985-02-16
France  113  Scotland
Tries: Blanco (2)
Pen.: Lescarboura
Report Pen.: Dods
Parc des Princes, Paris
Attendance: 45,146
Referee: L. M. Prideaux (England)

1985-03-02
Scotland  2125  Wales
Tries: Paxton (2)
Con.: Dods (2)
Pen.: Dods
Drops: Rutherford (2)
Report Tries: Pickering (2)
Con.: Wyatt
Pen.: Wyatt (4)
Drops: G. Davies
Murrayfield, Edinburgh
Referee: R. Hourquet (France)
1985-03-02
Ireland  1515  France
Pen.: Kiernan (5) Report Tries: Codorniou
Esteve
Con.: Lescarboura (2)
Pen.: Lescarboura
Lansdowne Road, Dublin
Attendance: 56,000
Referee: Kieran Fitzgerald (Australia)

1985-03-16
England  107  Scotland
Tries: S. Smith
Pen.: Andrew (2)
Report Tries: Robertson
Pen.: Dods
Twickenham, London
Referee: C. Norling (Wales)
1985-03-16
Wales  921  Ireland
Tries: Lewis
Con.: Wyatt
Drops: G. Davies
Report Tries: Crossan
Ringland
Con. Kiernan (2)
Pen.: Kiernan (3)
National Stadium, Cardiff
Referee: Kieran Fitzgerald (Australia)

1985-03-30
Ireland  1310  England
Tries: Mullin
Pen.: Kiernan (2)
Drops: Kiernan
Report Tries: R. Underwood
Pen.: Andrew (2)
Lansdowne Road, Dublin
Referee: J. M. Fleming (Scotland)
1985-03-30
France  143  Wales
Tries: Esteve
Gallion
Pen.: Lescarboura (2)
Report Pen.: Thorburn
Parc des Princes, Paris
Attendance: 49,164
Referee: S. Strydom (South Africa)

1985-04-20
Wales  2415  England
Tries: J. Davies
Roberts
Con.: Thorburn (2)
Pen.: Thorburn (3)
Drops: J. Davies
Report Tries: S. Smith
Con.: Andrew
Pen.: Andrew (2)
Drops: Andrew
National Stadium, Cardiff
Referee: F. Palmade (France)

References

  1. Griffiths, John (13 February 2012). "Postponed Championship matches, father and son England players and the career of Squire Wilkins". espn.co.uk. Retrieved 1 December 2014.

External links

Preceded by
1984 Five Nations
Five Nations Championship
1985
Succeeded by
1986 Five Nations
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