By Luis Miguel Guerrero –
In the “Official Foot Ball Rules” published in 1906, the measures of the Football field were specified. This surface had to be a rectangle 330 feet long and 160 feet wide, and it had to be marked with lines parallel to the goal lines, at 5-yard intervals.
Those 330 feet equals 110 yards, which was the distance a team originally had to run to get a touchdown (which – according to that rulebook – was worth 5 points).
In 1912, the field was adjusted to 100 yards because many fields barely had enough room to meet the original 110.
The reason why the football field originally measured 110 yards is unclear, but apparently it has to do with the dimensions used on the rugby and soccer fields in England, which were around that length.
The current fields measure 120 yards, 100 yards are for the play area, while 10 yards at each end are for the end zones. However, the Canadian league still retains the original 110 yards on its playing surface, totaling 150 yards on its fields.
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