Canadian football rules: How did they...

[foreverfree]

... get that way?

Why a 110 yard x 65 yard field, for example? Is it another way of establishing the Canadian identity or just being different (like the North American Soccer League [remember THAT?] tried to)? I've never understood. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind those differences. Kind of like "center" and "centre".

Canadian CasteFootballers, you're probably best equipped to answer this.

John
(a lifelong US resident with Canadian cousins)

 

[speedster]

Since football has it's roots in rugby the Canadian game went their own way through the Canadian Rugby Union and the American game evolved their way.If you want to talk stupid rules it's the single point.You get this point by punting the ball through the opposing teams end zone or if the punt is conceded in the end zone.Or by missing a field goal and the ball goes through the end zone or is conceded.

 

[white is right]

How about the whacky punting into the endzone and punting back out. Really the rule differences are because McGill university and Harvard came up with different ideas of changing Rugby.

 

[Tired old White]

I do not actually know why the field is slightly but to make a guess. if you lay a filed out usign meters for yards but then report the domensions in yards and round off you come up with a 110 yard long football field. I have to deal with Canadian Engineers and while they say Canada is titally metric it just ain't so. I have gotten hard copy drawing with some dimension labeled as metric some labeled a english and some not labeled at all.

 

[Freedom]

I agree with that. It makes sense especially because I think Canada used English(now American units)when Canadian football started. It would also explain why they need 12 yards for a first down.Edited by: Freedom