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A rugby try has been worth five since 1992
It was three points for most of the game's early history, then four A try was worth three points until 1971, when it went up to four, and it became five in 1992. The change was meant to reward attacking play, since a penalty goal was worth three. A conversion after a try adds two more points. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.
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A rugby try has been worth five since 1992: the short answers
- Where does this come from, and can I check it?
- It was three points for most of the game's early history, then four. The figure is taken from World Rugby, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
- Is this really a sports fact?
- Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
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