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  2. American football field - Wikipedia

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    The college football standard, which was the previous standard in the NFL (from 1945 to 1971), is 40 feet apart (20 yards from the sidelines), [7] instituted in 1993. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Previously, the college width was the same as the high school standard, at one-third of the width of the field (53 1 ⁄ 3 feet).

  3. League (unit) - Wikipedia

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    Although most contemporary accounts used an Arabic mile of 6 444 feet (1,964 metres), which gave a Spanish league of the degree of 25,776 feet (7,857 metres or 4.242 modern nautical miles) others defined an Arabic mile as just 6,000 feet making a Spanish league of the degree 24,000 feet (or 7,315 metres, almost exactly 3.95 modern nautical miles).

  4. Football pitch - Wikipedia

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    The penalty area (colloquially "the 18-yard box" or just "the box") is similarly formed by the goal-line and lines extending from it, but its lines start 18 yards (16.46 metres) from the goalposts and extend 18 yards (16.46 metres) into the field. i.e. this is a rectangle 44 yards (40.23 metres) by 18 yards (16.46 metres).

  5. List of unusual units of measurement - Wikipedia

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    An Olympic-size swimming pool holds over 2 acre-feet of water For larger volumes of liquid, one measure commonly used in the media in many countries is the Olympic-size swimming pool. [47] A 50 m × 25 m (164 ft × 82 ft) Olympic swimming pool, built to the FR3 minimum depth of 2 metres (6.6 ft) would hold 2,500 m 3 (660,000 US gal).

  6. Pace (unit) - Wikipedia

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    In the United States the pace is an uncommon customary unit of length denoting a brisk single step and equal to 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 feet or 30.0 inches or 76.2 centimetres. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] The Ancient Roman pace ( Latin : passus ) was notionally the distance of a full stride from the position of one heel where it raised off of the ground to where it set ...

  7. Orders of magnitude (length) - Wikipedia

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    4.509 kmheight of Mount Wilhelm, highest peak in Papua New Guinea; 4.810 kmheight of Mont Blanc, highest peak in the Alps; 4.884 kmheight of Carstensz Pyramid, highest peak in Oceania [146] 4.892 kmheight of Mount Vinson, highest peak in Antarctica; 5.610 kmheight of Mount Damavand, highest peak in Iran

  8. Kos (unit) - Wikipedia

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    The kos (Hindi: कोस), also spelled coss, koss, kosh, koh(in Punjabi), krosh, and krosha, is a unit of measurement which is derived from a Sanskrit term, क्रोश krośa, which means a 'call', as the unit was supposed to represent the distance at which another human could be heard.

  9. Rugby league playing field - Wikipedia

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    A rugby league pitch (or field) is 68 m (74 yards) wide and 112–122 m (122–133 yards) long. The try lines (or goal lines) stand 100 m (110 yards) apart. On each one is a goal post that is 5.5 m (6 yards) wide and at least 16 m (17 yards) high, with a crossbar set 3 m (3.3 yards) above the ground.