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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.
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 match, Raeburn Place, Edinburgh, 1890. The Calcutta Cup was gifted to the Rugby Football Union in 1878 by the members of the short-lived Calcutta Rugby Club. The members had decided to disband: the cup was crafted from melted-down silver rupees which became available when the club's funds were withdrawn from the bank.
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 ...
The Calcutta Cup was won 15–6, the first time since 1950 [16] and they shared the Five Nations title in 1964 with Wales. [17] In 1971 the SRU appointed Bill Dickinson as their head coach, after years of avoidance, as it was their belief that rugby should remain an amateur sport. He was officially designated as an "adviser to the captain". [18]
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.
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 ...
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