The American football field. The playing surface in an American Football game is called the field. It measures 100 yards long and 53.3 yards wide.

An American football field is 360 feet (120 yards) in length by 160 feet (53.3 yards) wide. American football fields are fixed in size, unlike soccer fields.

From the Friday night Butler Library lights to the football field on Saturday—that is, the American football field—in the thick of the semester, you might feel like you have too much on your mind to ...