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1952 Five Nations Championship

rugby union competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ1421650 ↗
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The 1952 Five Nations Championship was the twenty-third series of the rugby union Five Nations Championship. Including the previous incarnations as the Home Nations and Five Nations, this was the fifty-eighth series of the northern hemisphere rugby union championship. Ten matches were played between 12 January and 5 April. It was contested by England, France, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. Wales won their 5th Grand Slam and a 9th Triple Crown.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1952—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Five, Nations and Championship can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as rugby union competition. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “1952 Five Nations Championship” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.