These are the 1974 Five Nations Championship squads:
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England
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John Elders
John Elders (18 December 1930 – 3 May 2015) was an English rugby union player and coach. He played with Leicester Tigers between 1953–1958, scoring the third most tries in the 1950s for his club (38). Elders was also club captain for a numb ...
Fran Cotton
Francis Edward Cotton (born 3 January 1947) is a former rugby union prop forward who played for England and the British Lions. His clubs included Coventry R.F.C. and Sale. After retiring, he remained in rugby administration and founded a clo ...
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Peter Dixon
Peter John Dixon (born 30 April 1944) is a former England international rugby union player.
Dixon played for Oxford University RFC in four consecutive Varsity Matches from 1967 to 1970. He played for Cumberland at county level alongside Da ...
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David Duckham
David John Duckham MBE (28 June 1946 – 9 January 2023) was an English rugby union player. He played 36 games for England (scoring 10 tries), in three tests on the 1971 British Lions tour to New Zealand and for Barbarians F.C. in their 1973 ...
Dusty Hare
William Henry "Dusty" Hare (born 29 November 1952) is a former international rugby union footballer who played fullback.
Hare holds the world record for points scored in a first-class rugby career, with 7,337 points.
He was born in Newark ...
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Nigel Horton
Nigel Edgar Horton (born 13 April 1948) is a former England national rugby union team, England international rugby union player. He toured New Zealand in 1977 with the British and Irish Lions and at the time played club rugby for Moseley Rugby F ...
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Tony Jorden
Anthony Mervyn Jorden (28 January 1947 – 20 October 2023) was an English sportsman who played international rugby union for England and first-class cricket.
Education
Jorden attended Monmouth School before going up to Fitzwilliam College, Cam ...
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Tony Neary
Anthony Neary (born 25 November 1948) is a former England international rugby union player. He represented England at U18s basketball as well as rugby. He attended De La Salle College in Pendleton, Salford and Liverpool University before qual ...
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Alan Old
Alan Gerald Bernard Old (born 23 September 1945) is an English rugby union player who had 16 caps for England.
Old was an undergraduate at Queen Mary College and later studied for a year at Durham University, where he competed for Durham Un ...
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John Pullin
John Vivian Pullin (1 November 1941 – 5 February 2021) was an England international rugby union player. A hooker, he played club rugby for Bristol Rugby and captained the England national rugby union team for which he played 42 times between ...
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Chris Ralston
Christopher Wayne Ralston (born ) is a former England international rugby union player. He represented the British and Irish Lions on their 1974 tour to South Africa and at the time played club rugby for Richmond F.C.
Richmond Football Cl ...
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Andy Ripley
Andrew George Ripley OBE (1 December 1947 – 17 June 2010) was an English rugby union international, who represented England from 1972 to 1976, and the Lions on their unbeaten 1974 tour of South Africa.
Early life
Ripley was born in Liverp ...
Stack Stevens
Claude Brian "Stack" Stevens (2 June 1940 – 10 October 2017) was an English rugby union player who played Prop (rugby union), prop for Cornish Pirates, Penzance and Newlyn, Harlequin F.C., Harlequins, Cornwall Rugby Football Union, Cornwall ...
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Roger Uttley
Roger Miles Uttley (born 11 September 1949) OBE is a former English rugby union player.
Career
Uttley played 23 games for England both in the second row and the back row, five times as captain, and four tests in the Lions back row on the unde ...
France
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Head coach:
Jean Desclaux
Jean Desclaux (1922 – 24 March 2006) was a French rugby union player and coach who played for US Dax as flanker.
Born in 1922 in Dax, he played and coached club rugby for US Dax only; as a player he served the club from 1947 to 1959 and represe ...
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Jean-Michel Aguirre
Jean-Michel Aguirre (born Tostat, 2 November 1951) is a former French rugby union player. He played as a Scrum-half and Fullback.
Aguirre played for Stade Bagnérais. He started his career as a Scrum-half but his usual positions became Ful ...
Jean-Louis Bérot
Jean-Louis Bérot (born 28 July 1947) is a French former rugby union international.
Biography Early life
Bérot hails from the town of Dax, Landes, Dax and was a product of hometown club US Dax.
Career
A Stade Toulousain and US Dax fly-half, Bér ...
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Roland Bertranne
Roland Bertranne (born 6 December 1949 in Ibos) is a former French rugby union player. He played as a Centre.
Bertranne played for Stade Bagnérais and Toulon. He earned his first national cap on 27 February 1971 against the England in Twickenh ...
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Victor Boffelli
Victor Boffelli (born 20 March 1947) is a French former rugby union coach and international player.
Boffelli, born in Arques, Aude, was a flanker and played his rugby for Stade Aurillacois Cantal Auvergne, Aurillac.
Capped 18 times, Boffelli play ...
Claude Dourthe
Claude Dourthe (born 20 November 1948, in Magescq) is a former French rugby union player. He played as a centre.
Dourthe played for US Dax, where he was runners-up of the French Championship, in 1965/66, and twice winner of the Challenge Yves du M ...
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Michel Droitecourt
Michel Droitecourt (born 30 October 1949) is a former French rugby union player who was capped 17 times for France.
Droitecourt played as Fullback for the AS Montferrandaise where he played 2 final of the French Championship. With France he pl ...
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André Dubertrand
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Jean-François Gourdon Jean-François Gourdon (born Paris, 28 September 1954) is a former French rugby union player. He played as a wing. His is professionally a consultant on risk management and an insurance broker. He is the son of a Ukrainian mother and a French father ...
Jean-Pierre Lux
Jean-Pierre Lux (9 January 1946
– 15 December 2020). was a French rugby union player and sports director. He played as a centre. He was professionally a dental surgeon.
Club career
Lux played for US Tyrosse until 1970/71, moving to US Dax in 1 ...
Jean-Pierre Romeu
Jean-Pierre Romeu (born 15 April 1948) is a former French rugby union footballer. His position was fly-half. He was nicknamed ''Le Gaulois'' (The Gaul), for his moustache.
He first played for US Carmaux, in 1967/68. He moved afterwards to ASM C ...
Jean-Claude Skrela
Jean-Claude Skrela (born 1 October 1949 in Colomiers, Haute-Garonne) is a former coach of the France national rugby union team, French national rugby union team. His son, David Skrela, is a French rugby union player and his daughter, Gaëlle Skrel ...
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Claude Spanghero
Claude Spanghero (born 5 June 1948) is a former French rugby union footballer.
He was a part of the French side which won the Five Nations in 1973. He played for France over 22 times and 7 with his Brother Walter Spanghero. He played at number 8 ...
Ireland
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Syd Millar
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Moss Keane
Maurice Ignatius "Moss" Keane (27 July 1948 – 5 October 2010) was a Gaelic footballer and a rugby union footballer who played for Ireland and the British and Irish Lions.
Life and career
Born at Currow in County Kerry, Keane started out as a ...
Patrick Lavery
Patrick Lavery (28 February 1884 – May 1922) was an English professional footballer who played in the Football League for Hull City as an outside left.
Personal life
Born in Walker, Lavery grew up in County Tyrone and Blackhill. As of 1914, ...
Willie John McBride
William James McBride, CBE, better known as Willie John McBride (born 6 June 1940) is a former rugby union footballer who played as a Lock (rugby union), lock for Ireland national rugby union team, Ireland and the British and Irish Lions. He pla ...
Richard Milliken
Richard "Dick" Alexander Milliken (born 2 September 1950) is a former Ireland international rugby union player.
Education
Milliken is a geography graduate of Queen's University in Belfast.
Rugby playing career
He toured South Africa in 1974 with ...
Fergus Slattery
John Fergus Slattery (born 12 February 1949 in Dún Laoghaire, Ireland) is a former rugby union player who represented Ireland. He played schools rugby for Blackrock College and then moved on to play senior rugby for UCD, before earning a call ...
Scotland
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Bill Dickinson
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Gordon Brown
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Sandy Carmichael
Alexander Bennett Carmichael Order of the British Empire, MBE (2 February 1944 – 27 October 2021) was a Scotland national rugby union team, Scotland international rugby union player.Bath, p123-4Massie, p169
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Lewis Dick
Lewis Dick (born 20 November 1950) is a former Scotland rugby union international player.
Early life
Lewis Dick was born on 20 December 1950 in Perth.
He attended Morrison's Academy, an independent school in Crieff, from 1963 to 1969.
He wa ...
Alan Lawson
Alan Lawson (born 19 May 1948, in Kirkcaldy) is a former Scotland international rugby union player.
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
He played for Edinburgh Wanderers. Lawson stated: 'When I played in the 1970s, Jimmy Thain, the head groun ...
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Wilson Lauder
Wilson Lauder (born 4 November 1948) is a former Scotland rugby union international based in Wales.
Lauder was born in the village of Thornton in Fife, Scotland. He spent several years of his childhood in Rhodesia and when he was 11 years of age ...
Duncan Madsen
Duncan Madsen is a former Scottish rugby union footballer.
He was capped by Scotland and was part of the 1976 & 1977 Gosforth team that won the 1975–76 John Player Cup
The 1975–76 John Player Cup was the fifth edition of England's premi ...
Alastair McHarg
Alastair McHarg (born 17 June 1944) is a former Scotland international rugby union player. He played at Lock for the national side between 1968 and 1979.Bath, p147
Rugby Union career
Amateur career
Like Ian McLauchlan and Gordon Brown who we ...
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Ian McLauchlan
John McLauchlan (born 14 April 1942), known as Ian McLauchlan, is a former Scotland international rugby union player.Bath, p147 Nicknamed Mighty Mouse, he represented Scotland at loosehead prop from 1969 to 1979.Massie, p168
Rugby union care ...
Wales
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Roy Bergiers
Roy Thomas Edmond Bergiers (born 11 November 1950) is a Welsh former rugby union player. Born in Carmarthen, he played his club rugby for Llanelli RFC
Llanelli Rugby Football Club ( cy, Clwb Rygbi Llanelli) is a Welsh rugby union club founde ...
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Roger Blyth
William Roger Blyth (born 2 April 1950) is a Welsh rugby union administrator and former international.
Born in Swansea, Blyth is the son of 1950s Wales flanker Len Blyth and was educated at Bishop Gore School. He played his rugby as a fullback a ...
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Terry Cobner
Terence John Cobner (born 10 January 1946) Scrum.com is a former
Mervyn Davies
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Early life
Davies was born in Swansea, where he attended Penlan County School ...
Alex Finlayson
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Ian Hall
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Dai Morris
William David "Dai" Morris MBE (born 11 November 1941 in Rhigos, Cynon Valley) is a Welsh former rugby union footballer, who won 34 caps for Wales in the years between 1967 and 1974, scoring six tries. His usual position was as a back-row forwar ...
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Derek Quinnell
Derek Leslie Quinnell (born 22 May 1949 in Llanelli, Carmarthenshire) is a former Welsh rugby union player. He played as a lock-forward and as a number eight. He was capped for Wales youth 1967/8 season.
Club career
Educated at Coleshill Seco ...
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Glyn Shaw
Glyndwr Shaw (11 April 1951 – 10 May 2022) was a Welsh dual-code international rugby union, and rugby league footballer who played in the 1970s and 1980s. He played representative level rugby union for Wales, and at club level for Neath RF ...
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Delme Thomas
William Delme Thomas (born 12 September 1942) is a former rugby union player who became one of Wales' best known rugby players in the 1960s and 1970s. He joined Llanelli RFC in 1961 and was the team's captain when they won the league in the 197 ...
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Geoff Wheel
Geoff Wheel (born 30 June 1951, in Swansea) is a former Wales international rugby union player who attained 32 international caps. A lock-forward, he played club rugby for Mumbles RFC and then Swansea RFC
Swansea Rugby Football Club is a Wels ...
J. P. R. Williams
John Peter Rhys Williams (born 2 March 1949) is a former Welsh rugby union player who represented Wales in international rugby during their Golden Era in the 1970s.
He became known universally as J. P. R. Williams (or sometimes just as JPR) aft ...
Bobby Windsor
Robert William Windsor (born 31 January 1948 in Newport, Monmouthshire), known as Bobby and nicknamed "The Duke", is a former rugby union player who gained 28 rugby union caps for Wales as a hooker between 1973 and 1979. Windsor published his au ...