We played Red Rover, but Bulldog was banned, and it was a Protestant private school. I didn't pick up the finer details of whether Bulldog involved chains or not because, since it was banned, we only ever talked about it. If the older years hadn't told us about it I don't think we'd have known what it was at all.

The only version I've played was in tae kwon do training, where you just had to tag someone rather than hold them down; the aim there being speed and jinking ability rather than violent fun.