Drop goal the original penalty. The team could then opt to attempt a penalty goal, giving them a second opportunity to score the three points. A drop goal is worth three points, and before 1948 it was worth four points. From time to time suggestions have been made by some rugby commentators to reduce the value of a drop goal, or to limit or discourage them in other ways. It is sometimes also referred to as a field goal; however the use of this term in rugby union is erroneous, and instead describes an archaic form of scoring a goal. A field
Harry Myers (rugby) Bramley and had rebuffed all offers made, the committee accepted that he was not guilty of professionalism. In April 1900, only days after being presented with the Yorkshire Rugby Union cup for winning the No.1 competition the Keighley club voted to leave the Rugby Union and join the Northern Rugby Union. This time Myers did decide to move codes and along with the rest of the Keighley team he voted in favour of the move. Myers kicked the first points scored by Keighley as a Northern Union team when he kicked a drop goal in the club's first game under