The goal post dimensions in Canadian football are the same as in American football. The goal posts are on the goal line. The hash marks are not in line with the uprights.
Soccer goal posts are 8 yards apart. Someone else care to document distance between American football posts?
Because It was cheaper back then.
The goal posts in the NFL and college are 18 feet, 6 inches apart. In high school, goal posts are 23 feet, 6 inches apart.
The original American football field was 70 yards wide, but that was long before the days of the NFL. The width of the NFL field has never changed, because the standard width of 53 1/3 yards was in place before the league came into existence.
The field is a rectangle. The goal posts have 90° angles. Finally, the field is separated into congruent parts.
Most football goal posts are made of some type of metal. Football goal posts for the NFL are made out of steel with a mixture of aluminum. Soccer goal posts are usually aluminum or plastic with a net in between the posts.
90 degree angle
18.6 feet
All rugby posts have a 3m cross bar and the posts are allowed to be as high as possible.
It looks like an American football field, minus the field goal posts. Just two endzones and an open field in between.
The first rules of American football were devised by folks that ran and played college ball. At a meeting between these colleges in 1876, the crossbar height was set at ten feet. It has not been changed since.