What was your favorite game to play at recess in grade school?
Submitted by Elisheva Chana.
Thinking about this I realized that my school had a different idea about dodgeball than some of the other posts. When we played "dodgeball" it meant that everyone would line up against a wall, and one person would whip the ball as hard as they could at everyone. If you got hit, you were out. If you caught it, you got to be the one to inflict red rubber pain on your classmates.
We also played something we called 'endzone' which is basically what everyone else calls dodgeball. I'm not sure if its standard or not, but when you got hit in endzone you got to hang around outside the opponents area and if you caught a rebounding ball, you could still throw it at your opponents.
We also played a lot of kickball. Everyone had their own preference for how the ball should be rolled (slow and a little bouncy) and for some reason the opposing team always complied. We saved football and baseball and basket ball for after school at the park or at our houses because it seems like all our school had were red rubber balls and jump ropes.
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