Bulldog

branie

anyone here used to play this schoolyard game, and get in trouble as a result?

bonerjams03

Yeah, best Schoolyard game ever.. And when on grass Bulldog Takedown, the same principle only you had to maul the others to the ground...

It got banned, especially take down, but the final straw was when we [the thirty charging 11 year olds] knocked the wheelchaired girl out of her wheelchair..:o

Scarinae

It was banned in my primary school because the junior infants kept getting trampled. Brilliant fun though (the game, not the child trampling!! )

Ann22

How did you play it? I can remember a game we called 'British Bulldog'...I'm not sure but I think it was the game where a gang of us split up into two rows holding hands facing each other, we'd shout 'red rover, red rover, we call such and such over', then the child whose name we called would come running over and try and run through our chain breaking one of the links. If you were called, you'd naturally aim for the two skinniest youngsters to break apart. Does that sound like your game op?

silverharp

brings back memories of a classroom game we played at break if not supervised. "kicking machine" basically had to run the gauntlett between two rows of tables

lisajane

Isn't bulldog the game where kids would charge from one end of the yard to the other end without being caught by the bulldog. If you're caught, you also become a bulldog and start catching more. The last one not caught is the winner.

rainbowtrout

Ann22 wrote: »

How did you play it? I can remember a game we called 'British Bulldog'...I'm not sure but I think it was the game where a gang of us split up into two rows holding hands facing each other, we'd shout 'red rover, red rover, we call such and such over', then the child whose name we called would come running over and try and run through our chain breaking one of the links. If you were called, you'd naturally aim for the two skinniest youngsters to break apart. Does that sound like your game op?

We called that Red Rover :pac: Good fun

lisajane wrote: »

Isn't bulldog the game where kids would charge from one end of the yard to the other end without being caught by the bulldog. If you're caught, you also become a bulldog and start catching more. The last one not caught is the winner.

Yep, that's how we played it except the bulldog was allowed to call one person at a time and if they got past then everyone else could charge. Or they could just call bulldog and it was like a herd of buffalo - go for the weakest.:D It got banned in our school too, as did red rover, which was a pity cos no one ever got hurt.

Ann22

'We called that Red Rover Good fun'

I think that was the proper name for it alright..I suspect a child in our street got their wires crossed and kept calling it by the wrong name and it spread..'cos the game you're describing as Bulldog isn't one I remember playing at all...though it sounds deadly:).

rainbowtrout

Ann22 wrote: »

'We called that Red Rover Good fun'

I think that was the proper name for it alright..I suspect a child in our street got their wires crossed and kept calling it by the wrong name and it spread..'cos the game you're describing as Bulldog isn't one I remember playing at all...though it sounds deadly:).

twas definitely a bit more physical anyway

bonerjams03

Especially if its Bulldog Takedown! YEAH!

I like the way you knew you could just "Call Bulldog" and everyone ran... no house rules...

randomcorkgirl

ah yes kick, ****, bulldog... awesomly dangerous and painful game! random childhood beatings have just returned to me