The 1979 Five Nations Championship was the fiftieth series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship

Six Nations Championship

The Six Nations Championship is an annual international rugby union competition involving six European sides: England, France, Ireland, Italy, Scotland and Wales....

. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the eighty-fifth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 20 January and 17 March.

were the champions for the second consecutive season, winning a record twenty-first outright title. They had also shared the championship on nine other occasions. In beating Scotland, Ireland and England they also won the Triple Crown

Triple Crown (Rugby Union)

In rugby union, the Triple Crown is an honour contested annually by the four national teams of the British Isles who compete within the larger Six Nations Championship: England, Scotland, Ireland, and Wales. If any one team manages to win all their games against the other three they win the...

 for a record fourth successive season and extended their record number of Triple Crown wins to sixteen.

Table

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Position	Nation	Games				Points			Table points
		Played	Won	Drawn	Lost	For	Against	Difference
1		4	3	0	1	83	51
6
2		4	2	1	1	50	46
5
3		4	1	2	1	53	51
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4		4	1	1	2	24	52	−28	3
5		4	0	2	2	48	58	−10	2

Results

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External links

• The official RBS Six Nations Site