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Don't think we had a football field of either kind anywhere. The big sports were basketball and wrestling then baseball third (we had a baseball diamond). We
by lamontcg 4y ago
Don't think we had a football field of either kind anywhere. The big sports were basketball and wrestling then baseball third (we had a baseball diamond). We had a 1/4 mile track for the runners. When they taught us soccer in PE class we played indoors on the basketball court.
- cjonas 4y agoI've only ever lived in "small town USA" so I guess I didn't consider what a privileged it was to have the space for a field. The current town that I live in (population 10000) has at least 3 or 4 fields. All publicly accessible by anyone for recreation (this probably is pretty uncommon these days with schools becoming more locked down)
- lamontcg 4y agoThis was a town of 10,000 surrounded by wilderness, though, the town just wasn't big into football.
- mauvehaus 4y agoConveniently, a 400m/quarter mile track of a conventional configuration circumscribes an area of roughly the size and shape of a football field :-) (Plus some buffer area all around, etc). In many places in Ohio (where I'm from) it's pretty standard for the 400m track to surround the football field and for the stands to do dual use. Source: too many years of marching band in HS.
- mrguyorama 4y agoIt's also roughly the same size as a high school soccer field so in my town that didn't have football but did have track and soccer, it's still a relatable measurement.
- lamontcg 4y agoI just looked up Google Maps of my old HS and inside the 400m track there are now both football lines + uprights and soccer lines and goals. Those weren't there when I was in HS.