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In American football and Canadian football, the hash marks are two rows of lines near the middle of the field that are parallel to the side lines.These small lines (4 in [10 cm] wide by 2 ft [61 cm] long) are used to mark the 1-yard sections between each of the 5-yard lines, which go from sideline to sideline.
If the ball is downed outside the hash marks or run out of bounds, the next play begins at the hash mark closest to the spot where it is downed. In the NFL since 1972, the hash marks are 70 feet 9 inches (21.56 m) from each sideline; in college football they are 60 feet (18 m) from each sideline.
In Canadian rules, the distance between the sideline and hash marks is 24 yards (21.9 m); in 2022, the CFL narrowed the hash mark spacing to 9 yards (8.2 m). [6] In American amateur rules, at the high school level, the distance is 17 yards 2 feet 4 inches (16.3 m), sectioning the field into three almost equal columns.
A standard football game consists of four 15-minute quarters (12-minute quarters in high-school football and often shorter at lower levels, usually one minute per grade [e.g. 9-minute quarters for freshman games]), [6] with a 12-minute half-time intermission (30 minutes in the Super Bowl) after the second quarter in the NFL (college halftimes are 20 minutes; in high school the interval is 15 ...
Canadian hash marks in amateur play are 51 feet (16 m) apart, 24 yards from each sideline. The Canadian Football League formerly used this spacing, but narrowed the hash mark spacing to 9 yards (8.2 m) in 2022. [12] The Canadian field is 195 feet (59 m) in width, 35 feet (11 m) wider than the American field.
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In American football there are also four hash marks (one near each side line and a pair either side of the longitudinal center of the field) marked every yard between the major transverse lines. Though these technically run across the pitch they can more usefully be regarded as longitudinal lines because each hash mark is only a yard long and ...
—Field dimensions are more complicated, and subject to discussion. The standard length is 80 yards long by 40 yards wide, but City Section sports information director Dick Dornan said it’s ...