I've only ever lived in "small town USA" so I guess I didn't consider what a privileged it was to have the space for a field. The current town that I live in (population 10000) has at least 3 or 4 fields. All publicly accessible by anyone for recreation (this probably is pretty uncommon these days with schools becoming more locked down)

Conveniently, a 400m/quarter mile track of a conventional configuration circumscribes an area of roughly the size and shape of a football field :-)

(Plus some buffer area all around, etc).

In many places in Ohio (where I'm from) it's pretty standard for the 400m track to surround the football field and for the stands to do dual use.

Source: too many years of marching band in HS.

I'm glad it wasn't just me! Although maybe we both somehow missed out on a quintessential high school experience and all the cool kids were hanging out in the middle of a field for some reason.

no, all football fields are 100 yards long. i think that comes in around 90 meters for y'all euros.