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1950 Five Nations Championship

rugby union competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ1421639 ↗
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The 1950 Five Nations Championship was the twenty-first series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. 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 England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Wales won their 11th title, and also the Grand Slam and the Triple Crown.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1950 Five Nations Championship” is rugby union competition. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Five, Nations and Championship, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1950—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Five, Nations and Championship is the immediate research focus.
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