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
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. Ireland also claimed the
Triple Crown, their sixth, which would be their last until
2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
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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.
Participants
The teams involved were:
Table
Squads
Results
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References
1985 Five Nations results
External links
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