Today's Tidbit... When Football Was A Game Of Millimeters

Pondering yards versus meters (All images are from the Carleton College Archives unless noted)

Since 1912, American football has been played on a field 100 yards long and 160 feet (53 1/3 yards) wide, but in the 1970s, there was a movement to encourage the U.S. to shift to the metric system, culminated by the Metric Conversion Act of 1975. The Act encouraged federal agencies and others to voluntarily switch to the metric system. The movement and the Act had some success, but the American public p...