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 … Continue reading Why is the Football field 100 yards long?