The 1950 Five Nations Championship was the twenty-first series of the rugby union

Five Nations Championship The Six Nations Championship (known as the Guinness Six Nations for sponsorship reasons) is an annual international men's rugby union competition between the teams of England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales. The current champions ar ...

. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the fifty-sixth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 14 January and 25 March. It was contested by

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and

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won his 11th title, and also the

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and the

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Participants

The teams involved were:

Table

Results

External links

The official RBS Six Nations Site
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