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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[shermarama]

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.