Playground games

Leeds Hippo · Post by **Leeds Hippo** » Mon 12 Jul, 2010 7:32 pm

pashy2 wrote: HippoThank you. I've tried to explain the so-called leap frog game per orig. photo on other school threads.Late 50s -- Lower Wortley PS - playtime game for the Macho was SHIP & ANCHORThe bloke with his back to the wall was the anchor.His team (max 4) lined up, head up bum. They were the ship.The other team (cargo) had to vault up the the backs of the ship until all there. object: - cargo to crush the spines of the ship.Many sadistic rules involved. could explain laterThis game was totally approved by the despot headmaster Arthur Cox.Later at West Leeds BHS we started the game up again to the approval of the sports teacher,Stan Wilson. It got out of control -puberty violence.I think some of the teachers ( can't say masters ) imagined we were at Eton and its Wall Game.TTFNAndy Thanks pashy2 - that's an excellent description - I've seen quite a few refer to Ship and Anchor but never realised it referred to this.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Mon 12 Jul, 2010 7:53 pm

Leeds Hippo wrote: pashy2 wrote: HippoThank you. I've tried to explain the so-called leap frog game per orig. photo on other school threads.Late 50s -- Lower Wortley PS - playtime game for the Macho was SHIP & ANCHORThe bloke with his back to the wall was the anchor.His team (max 4) lined up, head up bum. They were the ship.The other team (cargo) had to vault up the the backs of the ship until all there. object: - cargo to crush the spines of the ship.Many sadistic rules involved. could explain laterThis game was totally approved by the despot headmaster Arthur Cox.Later at West Leeds BHS we started the game up again to the approval of the sports teacher,Stan Wilson. It got out of control -puberty violence.I think some of the teachers ( can't say masters ) imagined we were at Eton and its Wall Game.TTFNAndy Thanks pashy2 - that's an excellent description - I've seen quite a few refer to Ship and Anchor but never realised it referred to this. When I asked what it was called a couple of years ago the answer came "ship and anchor" but on your link it's called "chip, pie and crust" and that's what we called it in Morley.

Leeds Hippo · Post by **Leeds Hippo** » Mon 12 Jul, 2010 8:17 pm

Trojan wrote: Leeds Hippo wrote: pashy2 wrote: HippoThank you. I've tried to explain the so-called leap frog game per orig. photo on other school threads.Late 50s -- Lower Wortley PS - playtime game for the Macho was SHIP & ANCHORThe bloke with his back to the wall was the anchor.His team (max 4) lined up, head up bum. They were the ship.The other team (cargo) had to vault up the the backs of the ship until all there. object: - cargo to crush the spines of the ship.Many sadistic rules involved. could explain laterThis game was totally approved by the despot headmaster Arthur Cox.Later at West Leeds BHS we started the game up again to the approval of the sports teacher,Stan Wilson. It got out of control -puberty violence.I think some of the teachers ( can't say masters ) imagined we were at Eton and its Wall Game.TTFNAndy Thanks pashy2 - that's an excellent description - I've seen quite a few refer to Ship and Anchor but never realised it referred to this. When I asked what it was called a couple of years ago the answer came "ship and anchor" but on your link it's called "chip, pie and crust" and that's what we called it in Morley. Hi Trojan - I wish I could remember what we called it in Armley in the 60's - seems remarkable that it had so many names for such a long established game.

raveydavey · Post by **raveydavey** » Mon 12 Jul, 2010 9:03 pm

Treadstone71 wrote: Hot Rice - The name rings a bell and im sure we played it at school in the late eighties (Thornhill Middle).Was it the one with a tennis ball played in a rectangle by about 20 kids, slowly getting knocked out by having the ball kicked passed you at lightening speed, your only hope of survival was taking a hit and vollying it back in some other poor souls direction. Think you got one chance to survive (yellow carded) before being knocked out (red carded) and I seem to remember if it was close that you could have stopped the ball then someone shouted 50/50 and you played on. Or am i getting confused with something else. That sounds similar to our preliminary round of Hot Rice to decide who was "it".Everyone stood round in a circle, with feet touching and the ball was batted back and forth using your feet like the flippers on a pinball table. If the ball went between your legs you were "it" (I seem to remember that if someone hit the ball out between two people rather than through their legs then they got a warning - do it twice and you were "it").As soon as the ball went through someones legs everyone else scattered around the playground (and at Braimwood we had a huge playground plus playing fields above it), while the hapless "it" tried to pick the ball up, usually as escaping players hoofed it further away. Once the tennis ball was picked up "it" hunted down the rest of the players using the ball as a near lethal weapon - once hit by the ball you also became "it" and joined forces with the original "it", with the winner being the last one caught.I think we had a rule where the original "it" could run freely with the ball, but once he had captured others to join him then they could only run when they didn't have the ball - pass and run, a bit like netball.Obviously the whole thing regularly got out of hand with people being hit at full force with the ball from about two feet away, often in areas far too sensitive to be mentioned on a family forum like this.One memory this has brought back is how long a lunch break we got - I don't know how long kids get now but we must have got well over an hour. If you were on 'first dinners' you could get well over an hour of ball games in once you'd eaten your coconut sponge with pink custard.

Trojan · Post by **Trojan** » Mon 12 Jul, 2010 10:01 pm

raveydavey wrote: Treadstone71 wrote: Hot Rice - The name rings a bell and im sure we played it at school in the late eighties (Thornhill Middle).Was it the one with a tennis ball played in a rectangle by about 20 kids, slowly getting knocked out by having the ball kicked passed you at lightening speed, your only hope of survival was taking a hit and vollying it back in some other poor souls direction. Think you got one chance to survive (yellow carded) before being knocked out (red carded) and I seem to remember if it was close that you could have stopped the ball then someone shouted 50/50 and you played on. Or am i getting confused with something else. That sounds similar to our preliminary round of Hot Rice to decide who was "it".Everyone stood round in a circle, with feet touching and the ball was batted back and forth using your feet like the flippers on a pinball table. If the ball went between your legs you were "it" (I seem to remember that if someone hit the ball out between two people rather than through their legs then they got a warning - do it twice and you were "it").As soon as the ball went through someones legs everyone else scattered around the playground (and at Braimwood we had a huge playground plus playing fields above it), while the hapless "it" tried to pick the ball up, usually as escaping players hoofed it further away. Once the tennis ball was picked up "it" hunted down the rest of the players using the ball as a near lethal weapon - once hit by the ball you also became "it" and joined forces with the original "it", with the winner being the last one caught.I think we had a rule where the original "it" could run freely with the ball, but once he had captured others to join him then they could only run when they didn't have the ball - pass and run, a bit like netball.Obviously the whole thing regularly got out of hand with people being hit at full force with the ball from about two feet away, often in areas far too sensitive to be mentioned on a family forum like this.One memory this has brought back is how long a lunch break we got - I don't know how long kids get now but we must have got well over an hour. If you were on 'first dinners' you could get well over an hour of ball games in once you'd eaten your coconut sponge with pink custard. But the players who weren't "it" couldn't handle the ball, they could fist it, or kick it, but they couldn't catch it or throw it and if it hit them they were then on the catching team is how I remember the rules anyway.

gipton-galloper · Post by **gipton-galloper** » Mon 12 Jul, 2010 10:47 pm

'....hot rice, bounce twice, once, twice hot rice....' Also did anyone do 'pags' when playing tig? that's crossing your fingers so you can't be 'it' - I'm sure we did that at Grange Farm Primary!

blackprince · Post by **blackprince** » Tue 13 Jul, 2010 12:17 am

jim wrote: Relievo - basically a "tigs" ( or "tag" ) variant. The object is for whoever is "it" to tig all the other players. Tigged players retire to the home or den, a designated holding area. If a player not yet tigged manages to enter the holding area, all previous captives are released. The game can go on interminably and is the source of much falling out. These are the basic principles, but there were many local variants and alternative rules ( which led to even more falling out! ). That's pretty much as I remember playing it too in Harehills in the 1950's. Its a combination of hide 'n seek & tig. The base was usually a lampost. If a player could run to the base touch it and yell "relievio" then all the ones who had been caught (ie tagged) already were released and the game continued. I seem to remember it was best played in the evenings when it was getting dark or foggy which made it a bit easier to hide and sneak up to the base

blackprince · Post by **blackprince** » Tue 13 Jul, 2010 12:49 am

Anyone remember playing stretch. All i remember is a group of lads would stand in a circle & take it in turns to throw a penknife into the ground near someone else's foot. That person would then stretch to where the knife landed. I can't remember the rules or exactly how you won & lost the game.

String o' beads · Post by **String o' beads** » Tue 13 Jul, 2010 2:08 am

blackprince wrote: Anyone remember playing stretch. All i remember is a group of lads would stand in a circle & take it in turns to throw a penknife into the ground near someone else's foot. That person would then stretch to where the knife landed. I can't remember the rules or exactly how you won & lost the game. Oh yes! Not just lads, by the way. That was a great game, best played on soft grass. I think if you couldn't reach you were out.

Leeds Hippo · Post by **Leeds Hippo** » Tue 13 Jul, 2010 8:37 am

Geordie-exile wrote: blackprince wrote: Anyone remember playing stretch. All i remember is a group of lads would stand in a circle & take it in turns to throw a penknife into the ground near someone else's foot. That person would then stretch to where the knife landed. I can't remember the rules or exactly how you won & lost the game. Oh yes! Not just lads, by the way. That was a great game, best played on soft grass. I think if you couldn't reach you were out. I'd forgotten all about this - thanks for reminding me. Can you imagine the reaction of bringing a penknife to school these these. When I was at school they seem to be quite common.