Dear Martin,
At a recent televised golf event in Australia, all the signs on the
tees were in metres to denote the lengths of each hole. The golf was
described almost exclusively using metres with the only flaw being
references to inches and fractions of misses for putting that was a
close miss.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
Geelong, Australia
On 2009/02/01, at 4:14 AM, Martin Vlietstra wrote:
Hi Jerry,
I wrote an article describing these fields for the UKMA blog site.
You can see it at http://www.metricviews.org.uk/2007/11/16/how-big-hectare/
. American football is one of the few sports that I know of where
numbers are written onto the field. Golf is another, but these are
much more discreet.
In rugby, the term “inside the opponents 22” is in common use.
From: Jeremiah MacGregor [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 31 January 2009 17:00
To: [email protected]; U.S. Metric Association
Subject: Re: [USMA:42696] Re: Geelong at the Super Bowl
Martin,
Are either of these sports set up to where the field is marked with
numbers as in American football and the units and numbers are well a
part of the game?
When Rugby changed from imperial to metric, was there any physical
change in the set-up of the field to correspond to the new metric
numbers or are the metric numbers just approximations? 25 yard is
closer to 23 m then it is to 22 m, thus a noticeable changed would
have occurred. Do participants make use of units in speech as in
American football or is it all silent?
American baseball is set-up in feet and inches but the field isn't
marked in such and measurements aren't a part of the playing.
Jerry
From: Martin Vlietstra <[email protected]>
To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 10:37:24 AM
Subject: [USMA:42696] Re: Geelong at the Super Bowl
Association football (which is played in many countries) uses
imperial units (with metric equivalents) in its rulebook. In
fairness, the field sizes were designed in the UK and have not
changed in a hundred years.
Rugby Union however changed all their measurements from imperial to
metric in the 1970’s. the 25 yd line became the 22 m line etc.
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On
Behalf Of Jeremiah MacGregor
Sent: 31 January 2009 14:31
To: U.S. Metric Association
Subject: [USMA:42688] Re: Geelong at the Super Bowl
Pat,
Is it just American sports (at least football and baseball) that are
not metric? Or are there others that you know of? I know the
Olympics are all metric but not every sport played appears in the
Olympics.
Jerry
From: Pat Naughtin < [email protected] >
To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]>
Cc: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, January 31, 2009 1:39:51 AM
Subject: [USMA:42680] Re: Geelong at the Super Bowl
On 2009/01/31, at 3:44 PM, Jeremiah MacGregor wrote:
Pat,
Does Australian Football use yards or meters?
Jerry
Dear Jerry,
All Australian football only uses metres for all measurements. For
example, a ball must travel 15 metres before a 'mark' (a clean
catch) is awarded a free kick. This might give you a feel for the
rules http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TA4gmMvye5M although there's
nothing like seeing a game live, especially if the Geelong Cats are
playing — and winning.
And you might observe that Australian Rules football has nothing
whatsoever to do with any other football played anywhere else in the
world.
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From: Pat Naughtin <[email protected]>
To: U.S. Metric Association <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2009 3:20:54 AM
Subject: [USMA:42625] Geelong at the Super Bowl
Dear All,
This is completely off topic, but those of you who watch the Super
Bowl might be interested to see a player from Geelong playing for
the Cardinals in that game. Ben Graham used to be the captain of the
Geelong team who played in the Australian Football League. Graham is
the first ever Australian to play in the Super Bowl. Australian
football is quite unique and it is nothing like the football played
in the USA . See http://www.livenews.com.au/Articles/2009/01/29/Cardinals_coach_praises_Ben_Graham_on_Super_Bowl_eve
for details, and I suspect that many Geelong Cat's supporters will
be watching their first ever Super Bowl this year.
Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216,
Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
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Cheers,
Pat Naughtin
PO Box 305 Belmont 3216,
Geelong, Australia
Phone: 61 3 5241 2008
Metric system consultant, writer, and speaker, Pat Naughtin, has
helped thousands of people and hundreds of companies upgrade to the
modern metric system smoothly, quickly, and so economically that they
now save thousands each year when buying, processing, or selling for
their businesses. Pat provides services and resources for many
different trades, crafts, and professions for commercial, industrial
and government metrication leaders in Asia, Europe, and in the USA.
Pat's clients include the Australian Government, Google, NASA, NIST,
and the metric associations of Canada, the UK, and the USA. See http://www.metricationmatters.com
for more metrication information, contact Pat at [email protected]
or to get the free 'Metrication matters' newsletter go to: http://www.metricationmatters.com/newsletter
to subscribe.
