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Sharkie Jul 2018 9:07am, 11 Jul 2018 13,498 posts	0 Sharkie Am intrigued as to why football with a tennis ball, um?
GregP Jul 2018 9:11am, 11 Jul 2018 104,373 posts	0 GregP We used to play touch-once with something slightly about the size of a softball that yu could buy from Chelmsford market. As I got older it was just cricket and, by the time I reached sixth form, bridge. Yes I know. Sorry.
HellsBells Jul 2018 9:23am, 11 Jul 2018 24,060 posts	0 HellsBells Our junior school playground games were similar - it and trying to do handstands for the girls, football for the boys on the other side of the playground. Our actual PE lessons were a bit less mainstream - we did the standard "music and movement" inside in the hall, but outdoors the girls did netball in the winter or we played shinty, not hockey, definitely shinty. In the summer the boys did cricket whilst we did something called stoolball which was a sort of cross between cricket and rounders. I always thought school had made it up until I looked it up a year or so ago and found it was a real thing. We didn't have sports day but had the "potted sports" with all sorts of silly games and no parents invited. I enjoyed it all which as a very non-athletic child was a good thing, but was at a real disadvantage when I got a scholarship to the very traditional High School and couldn't play tennis or hockey or do any athletics
LazyDaisy Jul 2018 9:31am, 11 Jul 2018 23,141 posts	0 LazyDaisy I used to do handstands and the crab, no problem. Now, with my stupid elbow, I struggle with planking so a handstand is out of the question
HowFar? Jul 2018 9:32am, 11 Jul 2018 13,099 posts	0 HowFar? Was stoolball the one where the batter stood in front of a target that was a square of wood nailed to a wooden pole?
HellsBells Jul 2018 9:34am, 11 Jul 2018 24,061 posts	0 HellsBells That's the one HowFar - sort of cricket rules - the bowlers trying to hit the "wicket", you score runs by running between the wickets and can be caught out, run out or bowled; but it's all in the air and we used something like a rounders bat
HowFar? Jul 2018 9:38am, 11 Jul 2018 13,100 posts	0 HowFar? I do vaguely remember playing that. I think I was like you and assumed they'd just made it up from whatever bits and pieces they had left in the PE store.
HowFar? Jul 2018 9:42am, 11 Jul 2018 13,101 posts	0 HowFar? I found this photo in an old PE book at school. There was no explanation as to what the game was, or what the rules were. I imagine the lad on the chair is either an umpire, a commentator, the target or scared of mice.
Velociraptor Jul 2018 9:43am, 11 Jul 2018 38,598 posts	0 Velociraptor I haven't given up hope of learning to do handstands again, at least against the wall. As I recall, almost everyone could when I was at school; in "handstand season" we spent entire playtimes helping one another to do handstands. Until someone turned up with a sheet of scraps or a set of Chinese ropes or a bat and ball ...
HellsBells Jul 2018 9:45am, 11 Jul 2018 24,062 posts	0 HellsBells Gosh, there's a league and everything! stoolball.org.uk