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The Calcutta Cup is the trophy awarded to the winner of the rugby match between England and Scotland played annually in the Six Nations Championship.Like the match itself (England–Scotland), the Calcutta Cup is the oldest trophy contested between any two international rugby union teams, pre-dating the Bledisloe Cup (Australia–New Zealand) by more than half a century.
A Calcutta auction is an open auction held in conjunction with a golf tournament, [1] horse race or similar contest with multiple entrants. It is popular in backgammon , the Melbourne Cup , and college basketball pools during March Madness . [ 2 ]
The 1938 Calcutta Cup match was the first live televised rugby international. It was broadcast by BBC Television. [1] [2] The first two international sides to play against each other, the England–Scotland fixture is the second most-played international rugby union match as of 2023.
Calcutta Cup: Raeburn Place: 1879 Scotland England [4] 6: Dublin Hospitals Rugby Cup: Ireland: 1881: Meath Hospital: Sir Patrick Dun's Hospital [5] 7: Home Nations Championship: England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Italy: 1883 England Scotland [6] 8: Leinster Towns Cup: Ireland: 1888: Blackrock College RFC [7] 9: Currie Cup: South Africa ...
Scotland, England and Ireland placed second, third and fourth respectively with two wins each, while Wales placed last with a one-point victory over England. England won the Calcutta Cup, while none of the Home Nations achieved the Triple Crown. For the first time, a trophy was awarded to the winning team. [3]
The tournament took a surprisingly similar course to five years earlier, where England and Scotland both won their first three matches and met in the final week, with an undefeated record, a Grand Slam, Triple Crown and the Calcutta Cup all at stake for the victor: however, this time it was England who prevailed in the deciding match. Even the ...
France won with a Grand Slam, for the fourth time, while England won the Calcutta Cup, in their only win. Originally the opening matches of the Championship were due to be played on the 17th January with England v Scotland at Twickenham and Wales v Ireland at Cardiff but both matches were called off due to the bad weather and postponed until ...
The 1971 Scotland versus England rugby union match, also known as the Rugby Union Centenary International, [2] was an international rugby union match played between Scotland and England on 27 March 1971, the centenary of the match between the two teams played in 1871.