BALL GAMES

Vaulting Relay
_10 to 60 players._ _Schoolroom._ _Bean Bags._ The players stand in line in the aisles between the desks, all facing to the right or left (facing open windows preferred). The first player at the front ...

All Run
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Hand ball; bean bag._ This game is played with a hand ball or basket ball and is a gymnasium adaptation of the wall ball game known as "Burley Whush" o...

Arch Ball
_10 to 100 players._ _Playground; gymnasium; schoolroom._ _Basket ball; bean bag; oat sack; any substitute._ This game is very similar to Pass Ball, but is here described under another name, as it differs ...

Arch Goal Ball
_10 to 60 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball._ The players are divided into groups, and line up in single file in two or more lines facing a basket ball goal or any substitute. Each line has ...

Ball Chase
_4 to 20 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Hand ball or substitute._ A row of caps is set against a wall or fence, or a series of holes dug in the ground. At a point ten or twenty feet from these all of ...

Balloon Ball
_10 to 60 players._ _Schoolroom._ _Inflated balloon._ There are two goals, each consisting of a string stretched on opposite sides of the room from front to rear, at a height of six feet. There may be any...

Balloon Goal
_10 to 100 players._ _Schoolroom; parlor; gymnasium._ _Inflated balloon._ The game is played with two toy balloons, preferably twelve inches in diameter, one red and one blue, which are struck with the ...

Ball Puss
_3 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium; schoolroom._ _Gas ball; basket ball; hand ball; bean bag._ This is a form of ball tag. In it each player chooses a home or corner, as in Puss in the Corne...

Ball Stand
(Burley Whush) _5 to 20 players._ _Out of doors; gymnasium._ _Hand ball; tennis ball._ This game is started by tossing a ball against a wall or on the roof of a house from which it may roll back. The pl...

Ball Tag
_3 to 60 players._ _Playground; gymnasium; schoolroom._ _Gas ball; bean bag; basket ball; hand ball._ There are several forms of ball tag, each quite distinctive, and all interesting and making g...

Basket Ball Distance Throw
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball._ This is an interesting and simple athletic event, as well as a good game. It is especially useful for players drilling on the ...

Battle Ball
_6 to 12 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball; Indian clubs._ This is one of the best and most interesting of the simpler team games. Briefly stated, it consists in trying to dislodge ...

Bombardment
_10 to 100 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball; Indian clubs._ This game resembles Battle Ball in that it consists in trying to overturn Indian clubs or tenpins set up in the opponents' cour...

Boundary Ball
_10 to 100 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball._ GROUND The ground should measure about twenty feet in width by forty in length, and should be divided in half by a line, marked across it. P...

Bound Ball
_10 to 30 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Tennis ball; hand ball._ This game somewhat resembles tennis, but is played over a lower dividing line, and the ball is batted with the hand instead of with a ...

Call Ball
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Hand ball._ The players are numbered and scatter promiscuously over the playground or gymnasium. One tosses a ball, at the same time calling the numb...

Captain Ball
Captain Ball is one of the best and most popular games for both children and adults, boys and girls. It is one of the most useful forms of games for the period when pupils are beginning to enj...

Captain Bal
I _14 players._ _Basket ball; volley ball._ I] This is in some respects a simpler form of Captain Ball than those that follow, as there are but three bases or homes on each side of the field, and the ca...

Captain Bal
II _18 to 60 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball; volley ball._ The distinctive features of this form of Captain Ball are: (1) the captain occupies a place in the circumference of the circle a...

Captain Bal
III _20 to 40 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball; volley ball._ This form of Captain Ball is the most strenuous of any, as freer mass play is encouraged among the guards, and there ...

Emperor Ball
(Captain Bal IV) _30 to 40 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball._ This game is really a form of Captain Ball, but differs from any of the previous forms in the following points ...

Progressive Captain Ball
(Captain Bal V) _20 to 60 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball._ This game differs from any other form of Captain Ball in the fact that the players progress after each score from b...

Schoolroom Captain Ball
_10 to 60 players._ _Gas ball._ TEAM TEAM {_B_ = Bases. {(B) = Bases. I. {_C_ = Captain. II. {(C) = Captain. {_X_ = Guards. {(X) = Gua...

Center Base
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Hand ball; basket ball._ All of the players but one form a circle, with considerable space between each two. The odd player stands in the center, holdi...

Center Catch Ball
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Hand ball; basket ball; bean bag._ I. Simple form for little children. All of the players but one stand in a circle, with two or three feet distance...

Center Club Bowls
_; _Line Club Bowls (Double)_; _Circle Club Bowls_.) _10 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Hand ball; bean bag._ The players join in a large circle and number by twos or consecutively...

Circle Ball
_10 to 60 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium; schoolroom._ _Hand ball; basket ball; bean bag._ The players stand in a circle with from three to five feet between each two. The game consists of mere...

Circle Club Bowls
_; _Line Club Bowls (Double)_; _Center Club Bowls_.) _6 to 60 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball; football; Indian clubs._ The players divide into two parties and take their place...

Circle Stride Ball
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Foot ball; basket ball._ All but one of the players form a circle, standing in stride position with feet touching those of the next players to make a b...

Club Bowls
Four forms of this game are given in this volume in alphabetic order. Two are in line formation and two in circle formation, as follows 1. Line Club Bowls (Single) (Relay formation, one c...

Corner Ball
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball; volley ball._ GROUND The ground is marked off into a space measuring at least twenty-five by thirty feet. This is divided across the c...

Corner Spry
_10 to 60 players._ _Playground; gymnasium; schoolroom._ _Balls; bean bags._ The players are divided into four groups, one group stationed in each corner called North, South, East, and West. Four captai...

Crackabout
_10 to 60 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Soft hand ball._ The players scatter over the playground, trying to get as far away as possible from the one who has the ball. He throws it at one of the play...

Curtain Ball
_10 to 100 players._ _Gymnasium; playground._ _Basket ball; volley ball._ This is one of the most interesting ball games and is adaptable to many conditions. For instance, where a curtain cannot be conveni...

Dead Ball
_10 to 60 players._ _Schoolroom._ _Gas ball; bean bags._ This game may be played with balls or bean bags. If with balls, a light gas ball is preferable, as for all schoolroom games. From one to three ball...

Dodgeball
This is one of the most popular gymnasium or playground games. It is here described first for an informal game; then in three forms for an athletic contest, the latter as developed by Mr. Will...

Dodgeball Informal
(Informal) _10 to 60 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball._ This game is a very popular gymnasium or playground game. An informal mode of play is here described. For match games ...

Circle Dodgeball
_10 to 60 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball._ GROUND A circle is drawn on the ground. For practice play, a temporary marking may most quickly be made by the players forming a circle, droppi...

Double Dodgeball
_20 to 60 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball._ The game is played by two opposing teams in a three-court field, instead of by three teams in such a field as in Progressive Dodgeball. One team...

Progressive Dodgeball
_15 to 100 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball._ GROUND The ground is divided into three equal courts, each 30 x 30 feet. The end courts may be shorter if full space be not available. TE...

Schoolroom Dodgeball
_10 to 60 players._ _Gas Ball._ The players are evenly divided into two teams. One team takes its place around the outer edge of the room; the players of the other team scatter through the aisles or seats, w...

Double Corner Ball
_14 to 100 players._ _Gymnasium; playground._ _2 basket balls._ This game is one of the comparatively few in which a large number of players may be kept actively engaged at the same time. T...

Drive Ball
_10 to 30 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball; volley ball._ This is one of the most interesting games for players beginning to care for team work. The writer has known some boys to play the ga...

Fist Ball
_6 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium; parlor._ _Volley ball; basket ball; gas ball._ This game is very similar to Volley Ball, but differs from that game in the fact that the ball is...

Football Tag
_5 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Football._ Each of the players has three points at the beginning of the game. The players are scattered promiscuously over the ground or gymnasium. One ...

Hand Ball Drill
(Preliminary Ball) _1 to 100 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Hand ball; bean bags._ When little children first begin to handle a ball the size of an ordinary hand ball, the acquirement of ...

Hand Football
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball._ GROUND The ground should be marked off with boundary lines, which should inclose a space at least fifty feet long by twenty or twenty-f...

Home Run
_10 to 60 players._ _Schoolroom._ _Gas balls or bean bags._ Arrange the players so that all the rows are filled and the same number in each row. No. 1 in each row has a bean bag or ball, and at the word "...

Line Ball
_10 to 60 or more players._ _Schoolroom._ _Gas balls; bean bags._ For this game a line should be drawn on the floor across the front of the schoolroom, a short distance in front of the blackboard. One pla...

Line Club Bowls Double
_; _Center Club Bowls_; _Circle Club Bowls_.) _2 to 60 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium; schoolroom._ _Hand ball; bean bag; Indian clubs._ This game is like Single Club Bowls, except that...

Line Club Bowls Single
_; _Center Club Bowls_; _Circle Club Bowls_.) _2 to 60 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium; schoolroom._ _Basket ball; hand ball; bean bag; Indian club._ This game differs from Double Club B...

Mount Ball
_10 to 100 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball; hand ball._ This is a game of ball played by half of the players while mounted on the backs of the other players. It is therefore desirable that ...

Nine-court Basket Ball
_18 to 60 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball._ This is one of the comparatively few games that gives a large amount of activity to a large number of players playing at the same...

Over And Under Relay
_10 to 100 players._ _Playground; gymnasium; schoolroom._ _Balls; bean bags; substitutes._ This game is a combination of Arch Ball and Stride Ball. The players stand in two or more files, the files ...

Overtake
_20 to 60 players._ _2 balls or bean bags._ _Playground; gymnasium; schoolroom._ OBJECTS OF GAME This is a toss and catch game between a captain and the players of his team who are lined up around a squar...

Pass Ball Relay
_10 to 100 players. Playground; gymnasium. Basket ball._ Any number of teams may compete, but should contain an equal number of players. The teams line up in single file, and the game consists in a competit...

Pig In A Hole
_10 to 60 players._ _Playground; seashore; gymnasium._ _Basket ball._ Each player should be provided with a stick about three feet long. This may be made by whittling branches, or a gymnasium wand or pi...

Ring Call Ball
_10 to 30 or more players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Hand ball; bean bag._ This game is similar in some respects to Call Ball, but being played in a circle formation, is much simpler and less difficult ...

Roley Poley
(Hat Ball) _5 to 20 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Hand ball; bean bag._ A row of holes three or four inches in diameter is made in the ground, with about one foot space between. There should be on...

Round Ball
_20 to 60 players._ _Playground; gymnasium; schoolroom._ _Hand ball; basket ball._ This is an advanced form of Circle Ball, there being two competing teams in a circle, with wide spaces between. The pla...

Russian Hole Ball
_3 to 10 players._ _Out of doors; seashore; snow._ _Ball; bean bag; stone._ This game is played with one small ball, in size anywhere from that of a golf to a tennis ball. If played in the snow, a hard fro...

Schoolroom Volley Ball
_10 to 60 players._ _Gas ball._ The players are divided into two teams, and the players in each team number consecutively. A net or string is placed across the schoolroom, dividing it into two equal parts. T...

Spud
_10 to 100 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Any soft ball or bean bag._ This is a combination of Call Ball and Ball Tag, with scoring and penalties added. It is very popular with boys of almost any age....

Square Ball
_8 to 32 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Basket ball._ GROUND The ground is marked out in one large square with a base at each corner, and, should there be enough players, with bases at intervening p...

Stool Ball
_5 to 20 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Hand ball._ A stool, box, or inverted pail is set in an open place, and from ten to twenty feet away from this a throwing line is drawn. One player is appointe...

Stride Ball
(Straddle Club) _10 to 100 players._ _Playground or gymnasium._ _Any ball; indian club; bean bag._ The players are divided into two or more groups which compete against each other, each having a ball. E...

Ten Trips
_6 to 21 players._ _Playground._ _Baseball; tennis ball._ This game is a competition between two or more teams, and consists in rapid pitching and catching of a base or tennis ball by each team. A team ...

Tether Ball
_2 to 8 players._ _Out of doors._ This is one of the most delightful and vigorous games, especially adapted to small playing space, a plot twenty feet square being enough for it. The paraphernalia for the ga...

Three Holes
_2 to 10 or more players._ _Out of doors; seashore._ _Small ball._ This game is played by rolling a ball about the size of a golf ball into holes made in the ground. Three holes are made by spinning on the...

Toss Ball
_10 to 60 players._ _Schoolroom._ _Gas ball; bean bag._ This game should be played with a light gas ball or a bean bag, which the teacher holds, standing in the front of the room. All of the players are s...

Tree Ball
_5 to 15 or more players._ _Out of doors._ _Football; hand ball; bean bag._ This game is a form of Ball Tag, and may be played with any light-weight football, or with a bag or sack filled with leaves or g...

Volley Ball
_2 to 30 players._ _Playground; gymnasium._ _Volley ball._ This game consists in keeping a large ball in motion back and forth across a high net by striking it with the open palm. The ball must not be all...