TheBreakdown
Full time15 January 1972
England
3–12
Wales
Twickenham, London, England · Five Nations 1972Head-to-head

Wales won by 9 points.

Scoring

  1. –PEngland penalty · Bob Hiller3–0
  2. –CWales conversion · Barry John3–2
  3. –PWales penalty · Barry John3–5
  4. –PWales penalty · Barry John3–8
  5. –TWales try · JPR Williams3–12

Line-ups

England

  1. 1Stack StevensProp
  2. 2John PullinHooker
  3. 3Mike BurtonProp
  4. 4Alan BrinnSecond row
  5. 5Chris RalstonSecond row
  6. 6Peter DixonFlanker
  7. 7Tony NearyFlanker
  8. 8Andy RipleyNumber 8
  9. 9Jan WebsterScrum-half
  10. 10Alan OldFly-half
  11. 11Keith FieldingWing
  12. 12David DuckhamCentre
  13. 13Mike BeeseCentre
  14. 14Jeremy JanionWing
  15. 15Bob HillerFull-back
  16. 16Peter KnightBench
  17. 17John FinlanBench
  18. 18Lionel WestonBench
  19. 19Keith FairbrotherBench
  20. 20AE BoddyBench
  21. 21John BartonBench

Wales

  1. 1John LloydProp
  2. 2Jeff YoungHooker
  3. 3Barry LlewelynProp
  4. 4Delme ThomasSecond row
  5. 5Geoff EvansSecond row
  6. 6John TaylorFlanker
  7. 7Dai MorrisFlanker
  8. 8Mervyn DaviesNumber 8
  9. 9Gareth EdwardsScrum-half
  10. 10Barry JohnFly-half
  11. 11John BevanWing
  12. 12Arthur LewisCentre
  13. 13Roy BergiersCentre
  14. 14Gerald DaviesWing
  15. 15JPR WilliamsFull-back
  16. 16Keith HughesBench
  17. 17Phil BennettBench
  18. 18Ray HopkinsBench
  19. 19Roy ThomasBench
  20. 20Walter WilliamsBench
  21. 21Derek QuinnellBench

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Context

All-time, England 66–61 Wales, 11 drawn in 138 scored Tests. Full head-to-head

England going in
Wales going in

Also on this day

Results to 27 September 2026. Scoring and line-ups come from World Rugby match summaries where available; older Tests may have neither.