British Bulldog

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

This is the game where lots of children line up in two lines, then a child from one team runs at the other line with an aim to breaking it. If you break through the line, then you rejoin your team, and your team gets another go. If the line holds firm, you join the other team, and it's their go. Many schools have banned this, and had when we were at school, but I think from anecdotal evidence that it was mainly C of E/other protestant schools that did this, whereas RC schools still allow the game. So, a test:[Poll #271314]

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[davefish.livejournal.com]

As with me, though there were also two variants.

The gentle one where you had to pick the person up and say "1,2,3 British Buldogs" and then they would be caught, and the somewhat rougher one where you had to wrestle them onto the ground.

Of course the best plan was usually to follow very closely the biggest bunch of people and hope to avoid any assaults on your bulldog-dom.