How long is a gridiron field

The game is played on a yard field, has only three downs and twelve men per team. Nine-man, eight-man and six-man football — variations of the traditional gridiron football game with fewer players. These football codes are often played with a yard minimum per down, fewer offensive linemen and a smaller field.

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Table of Contents. Hash Marks Hash marks are used to measure the yardage on every down. High School has marks are 53 feet, 4 inches apart College football hash marks are 40 feet apart NFL hash marks are 18 feet, 6 inches apart. To start with, every football field is yards long, at every level the game is played. The field, end zones included, is a rectangle that measures feet long by feet wide. In , two rows of hash marks were added near the center of the field at 1-yard intervals so that at the end of every play, the ball would be placed on the nearest hash mark.

Prior to the rule change, all plays began where the ball was declared dead. The midfield hash marks in high school and college football are further from the center of the field and closer to the sidelines on each side than they are in professional football, where they are located 70' 9" from the sidelines.

High school hash marks are 53'4" from the sidelines while NCAA hash marks are 60' from sidelines. Sideline hash marks are individual yard lines running the length of the field in 1-yard increments.