[Help] British Bulldog 1-2-3.

[AmexRuislip]

Sorry if this is 'fixtures' and not in the right thread, I know how precious some of you are becoming over this.



I'd like to write a short note concerning the quaint, gentle and tranquil English pastime of BB 1-2-3.

The problem is it's been about 40 years since my last game and probably due to the multiple concussions, my memory is a little hazy.

Happy Dayz


So the rules as I remember them:-

1 x group of lads of mixed age and crucially size.
2 x inanimate objects, preferably 2 rows of garages in a compound.
1 x glass and dog poop covered concrete floor - preferably next to the park.

The pregame.

The 2 biggest lads each take it in turns to pick from the masses.
The picks begin as size, then friends, then potential mating opportunities with older sister.
Before finally ending with a row concerning who has to take the weedy kid that smells as he stands right there (the only reason I've ever been grateful for my big sister)

The teams then split to their wall/tree/garage door 'home'.

The objective.

Cross to the oppositions home.

Scoring points

Lifting a member of the opposition fully off the ground for the duration of "British Bulldog 1-2-3" before slamming them to the ground.

Winning
Getting out of the game with the same amount of teeth as you started.



Am I right?

I used to play BBD when in the cubs and scouts.
It all took place in the local church field in the summer, with 3 picked to stand in the middle of the field whilst the rest ran from one side to the other.
The guys in the middle trying to catch people as they crossed, leaving it down to the last heroic few to blast their way through.
In the winter it moved into the church hall on a smaller scale, resulting in more bruises.

 

[rigton70]

hmmm
thought we played that it started with one bulldog then everyone getting to the other side, unless caught, in which case they became a bulldog too.
last man standing won.
everyone else gets a kicking at some point, the severity dependant if you get caught early on or near the end.

This on a concrete playground.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Looked dangerous and nasty to me. I tutted and exited, stage left.

 

[Cheshire Cat]

It was banned at my school. Can't imagine why.

 

[Si Gull]

At our school it was part of the PE lesson organised by the teachers, who also joined in. What fun! Not.

 

[Sirnormangall]

Of course this later evolved into what became known as “football hooliganism” where the objective was to take over the “end” of the opposition.

 

[Weststander]

At school in the late 70’s and early 80’s, it was still played occasionally for indoor PE on a wet day. There rules were simply, we just got on with it, I thought it was fun. I never lasted long.

Just like swaying crowds on football terraces, my son’s never experienced it. He wishes he had.

 

[Chief Wiggum]

Murder Ball was popular with the PE teachers at my school. As I recall it - 45 years ago - Two teams either end of the gym, one medicine ball in the centre. On the shout of 'Murder Ball!' by the PE teacher the kids in each team all charged en mass to retrieve the ball. The object was to get the ball to your team's end of the gym. Basically it was a mass brawl with no rules.

 

[Miami Seagull]

Used to play it frequently at school in the mid 70's. Can still remember the fear when you realized you were one of the last few standing...

 

[Jimmy Come Lately]

I don't remember the bit about picking opponents up and shouting "British Bulldog 1-2-3" but I couldn't say whether that's because it's a detail that didn't make it to my corner of Scotland in the mid 80s or if too many knocks to the head have made me forget it. In general I don't remember much other than two ranks of boys rushing at each other, and the mix between those intent on dealing out consequence-free (usually) violence and those doing their pitiful best to avoid it.

 

[WATFORD zero]

Murder Ball was popular with the PE teachers at my school. As I recall it - 45 years ago - Two teams either end of the gym, one medicine ball in the centre. On the shout of 'Murder Ball!' by the PE teacher the kids in each team all charged en mass to retrieve the ball. The object was to get the ball to your team's end of the gym. Basically it was a mass brawl with no rules.

From a couple of weeks back

I remember at School we played murderball.

Equipment

One basketball court
2 green gym mats
1 medicine ball

Rules (or if you want to be pedantic - Rule)

To win, put the ball on the other teams mat

 

[Questions]

Me and my lot just went around the school punching and dead legging other kids randomly.
We weren’t ones for the rules of BritishbBulldog and the fact you could hide in a ‘HOME’

The ‘grovel tunnel’ which consisted of 36 Doc Martins lining a narrow corridor Was popular with new kids delivered to the area.

Education has fallen apart since they stopped school bullying

 

[Questions]

We did play British Bulldog in P.E. But you weren’t aloud to do karate kicks and this was 1975/76 the peak of Kung Fu.

 

[pastafarian]

This on a concrete playground.

Hardcore version

 

[Doonhamer7]

We played in PE normally when rugby.football pitches saturated so stuck inside. What I remember is whole school year at on end. Three lads picked to start. Everyone then ran to other end without being captured. Role of the three was to pick off slow/weedy kids then everyone caught joined the three, slowly you picked off the rest as the group in the middle got big and then everyone was caught.

The other rainy day game was ‘murderball’ where medicine ball in the middle of the hall, school year split in half. Rules get ball to opposite end, no kicking, punching, biting but otherwise no rules.

 

[Cadiz Seagull]

We used to play at 1st Hassocks Scouts back in 59/60. I think I damaged my woggle in one game

 

[junior]

It's what we went onto at school after "whats the time Mr Wolf"!

 

[clockend1983]

hmmm
thought we played that it started with one bulldog then everyone getting to the other side, unless caught, in which case they became a bulldog too.
last man standing won.
everyone else gets a kicking at some point, the severity dependant if you get caught early on or near the end.

That was the version I played
It wasn’t a team game
Often a right rum carry on
The last man got a right kicking even from the weak ********

 

[Bakero]

I have no idea what you are talking about . We def didn’t play this ‘game’ at my school, albeit it was a private one . Maybe this was more a comprehensive type school game ?

I'm surprised your private school didn't teach you how to use albeit correctly or that you don't need a space before a punctuation mark. Maybe they're more comprehensive school things?

 

[Bakero]

Haven't played this since highschool, we played trip-up (same rules you just boot them in the ankles)

Thinking back it was utterly stupid.

We played that too. Also, British Bombers, which, as far as I can recall, involved a few lads standing against a wall while others threw tennis balls at them. And who can forget the old shin-kicking game?