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== Size == The end zone in American football is 10 yards long by {{frac|53|1|3}} yards (160 feet) wide. A full-sized end zone in [[Canadian football]] is 20 yards long by 65 yards wide. Prior to the 1980s, the Canadian end zone was 25 yards long. The first stadium to use the 20-yard-long end zone was [[B.C. Place]] in [[Vancouver]], which was completed in 1983. The floor of B.C. Place was (and is) too short to accommodate a field 160 yards in length. The shorter end zone proved popular enough that the CFL adopted it league-wide in 1986.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://cfldb.ca/faq/game-rules-regulations/#what-is-the-size-of-the-cfl-field|title=FAQ about Game Rules and Regulations on CFLdb|work=cfldb.ca|access-date=2015-05-08|archive-date=2015-04-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404075117/http://cfldb.ca/faq/game-rules-regulations/#what-is-the-size-of-the-cfl-field|url-status=live}}</ref> At [[BMO Field]], home to the [[Toronto Argonauts]], the end zones are only 18 yards.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/video/argos-finally-have-a-home-at-bmo-field~886589 | title=CFL Videos - Highlights and Analysis from the Canadian Football League | access-date=2017-12-11 | archive-date=2019-01-04 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190104175924/https://www.tsn.ca/cfl/video/argos-finally-have-a-home-at-bmo-field~886589 | url-status=live }}</ref> Like their American counterparts, Canadian endzones are marked with four pylons. In Canadian football stadiums that also feature a running track, it is usually necessary to truncate the back corners of the end zones, since a rectangular field 150 yards long and 65 yards wide will not fit completely inside an oval-shaped running track. Such truncations are marked as straight diagonal lines, resulting in an end zone with six corners and six pylons. As of 2019, Montreal's [[Percival Molson Stadium]] is the only CFL stadium that has the rounded-off end zones. During the CFL's failed [[Canadian Football League in the United States|American expansion]] in the mid-1990s, several stadiums, by necessity, used 15-yard end zones (some had end zones that were even shorter than 15 yards); only Baltimore and San Antonio had the endzones at the standard 20 yards. Ultimate Frisbee uses an end zone 40 yards wide and 20 yards deep (37 m Γ 18 m).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://rules.wfdf.org/rules/ultimate/playing-field |title=Playing Field |publisher=wfdf.org |year=2013 |access-date=2 March 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140302215825/http://rules.wfdf.org/rules/ultimate/playing-field |archive-date=2 March 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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