I've never heard of this but coincidentally a coworker a couple weeks ago told me her kid had broken his arm in like the 90s playing "the t-shirt game" at school, where they'd start with trying to throw a spare t-shirt on each other, then the rest was the same.
Our late-70s version of wall ball was most similar to the Wikipedia description of "butts up" but we had a pretty brutal penalty phase for losing that is not indicated there. (Our version was called "ASS") https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butts_Up
we played the bad-name game as kids (mid-late 1980s), but I was bigger earlier than most of my friends so I enjoyed being harder to take down even though I wasn't fast
as someone who just turned thirty a little over two months ago, the knee-jerk emotional reaction I felt when presented with the "30-40" option was simply too much for me to deal with at 1:07 PM on a Tuesday afternoon, so I picked "20-30" instead, which is still, technically, accurate!
Just for scientific purposes, the Brazilian variant of this might be porradobol (poe-ha-doe-ball), which roughly translates to fightball. It's just kicking footballs at people while trying to not to get hit yourself. I dislocated a shoulder playing this!
I filled it in but our version was a bit different because you got a point if you could make it to the wall of the school and you set the ball at the sand pits (say 500ft?) from the wall to start. Hope I didn't mess up your data...
We did have a lot of American kids at school though, usually kids whose parents were running parts factories around the county. Strongly suspect we imported it from one of them, but heaven help me if I can remember which kid did it.
we played at lunch daily. one day we decided to do 5th vs 4th grade, nearly discovering Rugby :-) but it wnt south quickly. A 4th grade kid played in his nice new white painters pants. nbd, until he got home and parents freaked out to the principal...1/2
locally i think that was called buckbuck but never knew anyone to play it. tje 6th graders played kill basketball, which was 1vN on asphalt. no intentional throwing to ground but a lot of clotheslines/stand up grappling
joined the game in his nice new white pants. he got sent over the hillside into thorns. his folks freaked out to the.principal about his ruined clothes. all boys given the choice: swat from the principal, or no recess until ground was completely dry next.spring. after 1.day all but 3 took tje swat
Filled in the form. was lucky that in the 70s a local kids mom made it a point to not let him play the game if we used that name. Kill the man was acceptable.
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Weird. That woulda been Vegas iirc.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Butts_Up
but also at the same school we called it “funny fumble”?
Not sure if that’s relevant, but I’ll never forget it lol
I know we would have NOT played anything with a homophobic name back in the 1980s because that would've been seen as bigoted and pathetic.
I at once miss that style of play and wonder how we didn't break ourselves a lot more than we did.