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football meadow is 120 yards extended and 53 ½ yards broad. At each end of the
field and 100 yards separately are the end lines. The additional 10 yards at
each end is the end sector. The ground is divided up every 5 yards by a back
garden line. The middle yard line marker is called the 50 yard line. In
parallel to the side lines are rows of hash marks. The football is forever
placed on or between the hash symbols at the start of each play. This ensures
that the teams have space to line up on both sides of the football. The site of
the football that defines the sides of the ball is called the "line of combat".
There are also goal posts at the back of each football end sector. One way to
score is to kick the football through the goal posts. The ball have got to go
between the uprights and over the crossbar. If any part of a player with the
football touches outside the side lines or the end zone it is considered Out of
Bounds. Football is a timed sport. The team with the most points at the end of
the time period, wins the game. The game is separated up into 4 periods or housing
with a long "half time" between the second and third quarter. Time is
counted while plays are organization and sometimes between plays (i.e. time
continues after a administration play where the player was tackled in bounds,
but stops on an incomplete pass). To keep the game going at a good swiftness
the offense has a limited time (called the play clock) between plays.
