Murder Ball

[timwilky]

Based on a separate thread, Specialone stated that he played "British (not euro) bulldog as well". Although I have never heard it called Euro.

I went to a strange type of college when I started my apprenticeship at Leyland in the 70s. The building was provided by work, the only pupils were Leyland employees, not only did they take you through C&G, and ONC they also did for us specialist non exam courses in stuff like gearbox, axle, engine, chassis, suspension designs and technology. However all the staff were supplied and paid for my the local education authority. It was compulsory whilst attending there to do PE.

We had access to the Leyland motors sports facilities which meant football. cricket, tennis. As I was on the keylist I sometimes used the range for rifle/pistol as the guy in charge of PE had said any sport. Put what this long post is about we also had use of the small but effective college gym.

Not a modern gym full of static muscle making equipment, but a hall with climbing frames, ropes etc. and there was only one game in town. Murder Ball.

So come on who has played it. For those who lived in modern closeted times. Two teams of any size, a mat on opposite ends of the playing surface. objective is to put the ball on the opponents mat.

Rules, time as long as you have got, no eye gouging.

My mother ran the medical centre at Leylands South Works which was the nearest facility to the college. Despite her complaints, broken arms/legs. shoulders and jaws plus the odd tooth were a weekly result of this man forming right of passage. It made the weak strong, and the strong, mind full that there were bigger or groups that could take them.


I doubt any educational facility still allows this sort of physical exercise. But please enlighten me. Does the favorite game of my youth still get played.

And how about we set up a game for the AR. Teams to be Real Men Vs southern shandy suppers. Hmmm Bear can be an adopted northern man for the day

Where is the line between north and south?

Not played the one, british bulldogs was our sport of choice!

[Bri w]

Bl00dy hell Tim. I've not heard of murder ball for 40+ yrs.

Get yourself to any local rughy union game and watch them ruck and maul, preferably with an old fashioned ref who lets them get on with it.

I have played dogde ball quite a lot, perhaps not murder ball through.

There are far more burtal games out there than that, which I'm sure are just not allowed!

However playing dogde ball with a mix of kids and adults was interesting, I manage to hit a kid square in the face he kinda lifted up about 1/2 foot then shoot back oh about 5 or feet onto his ****. Was funny as hell...though Americans don't have a sense of humor about that!

murderball , british bulldog, same thing, no rules get ball from one end to the other, we had to play it in the army a fair bit

Ah, British Bulldog takes me back. Our version didn't have a ball though. Used to play it as a kid, our Estate v Lime Trees estate (down South). Usually a precursor to a good old fashioned punch up. Nostalgia's not what it was.

[timwilky]

Yeah but murder ball is not British bulldogs. From what I remember from my youth British Bulldogs once caught you join the opposition and becomes a last man standing type game whereas with murder ball it remains a team game, just because the opposition scores it doesn't mean that you have lost. The winning team is only decided at the final whistle

Used to use murder ball as the last part of the Raf station rugby training programme twice a week, was fun next morning in the med centre being handed tubey-grip and brufen

[Sid Squid]

Not played either for a very long time, but both were popular and enjoyable ways of getting hurt when I was at school.

[Balky001]

Never heard of it. Mind you, if one of the lessons were if you are in a gang you can take down big opponents then the chavs round here have certainly played.

Loved playing British Bulldog, especially when there was a couple of you left against the rest of the school. Can't remember too many serious injuries but a bit different when you're 14. Fancy a game now, AR event??