Field goal (rugby)

This article is about the obsolete scoring method. For the Southern Hemisphere rugby league term, see Drop goal.
Jim Sullivan kicking for Great Britain, in a rugby league match against Australia in 1933.

A field goal, also called a flying kick[1] or speculator, was a way of scoring in the game of rugby football. It consisted of a player kicking the ball from the ground (not on a kicking tee) without using their hands in open play over the crossbar. This method of scoring was abolished in rugby union in 1905 and in rugby league in 1950.

  1. ^ Roodt, Gerhard (2015). The DNA of Rugby Football: A Short History of the Origin of Rugby Football. Partridge Africa. ISBN 978-1482808292.