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.
A mile is 1,760 yards. If you run around the footaball field which is 120 yards long (10 yards with each endfield) and 53.3 yards wide, each lap will be 346.6 yards. So if you run around the outside of the enfield, it would take a little more than 5 laps to reach one mile.