Witwatersrand Gold Rush - Discovery. 1  The first discovery of gold in the region is recorded as being in 1852 in the Pardekraal farm [1] by J.H. Davis an English miner.
100 yards between the goal lines. The end zones are 10 yards long each, giving it a total of 120 yards. They begin the game by kicking the ball off from the 30 yard line, not mid-field, from one team to the other. The receiving team returns the ball until the returner is tackled.
Each end zone is 30 feet long, and each sideline is 6 feet wide. This results in a total perimeter of 1,064 feet. However, if one does not consider the end zones or the sidelines to be part of the field, the perimeter is only 920 feet, and 5.74 laps around this field equals 1 mile.