The 1960 Five Nations Championship was the thirty-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 sixty-sixth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 9 January and 9 April. It was contested by

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and

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. The championship was jointly won by England and France. Both teams beat Ireland, Scotland and Wales and the France-England game was drawn 3-3, giving both teams a total of 7 points in the final table. There was no tie-break in the Five Nations at the time and the championship was shared. England's three wins gave them the

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for the fourteenth time; they would not win it again until the

1980 Five Nations Championship The 1980 Five Nations Championship was the 51st Five Nations Championship series of the annual rugby union competition contested by the national teams of , , , , and . Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this ...

Participants

The teams involved were:

Table

Results

External links

The official RBS Six Nations Site
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