Boundary Ball

Source: Games For The Playground, Home, School And Gymnasium
Category: BALL GAMES



_10 to 100 players._

_Playground; gymnasium._

_Basket ball._

GROUND
The ground should measure about twenty feet in width by forty
in length, and should be divided in half by a line, marked across it.

PLAYERS
The players, numbering anywhere from ten to one hundred, are
divided into two equal parties. Each party lines up on one side of the
dividing line and about ten feet from it.

OBJECT OF THE GAME
The object of the game is to throw the ball over
the opponents' rear boundary line, a party succeeding in doing this
scoring a point. As each party lines up at the start ten feet from the
center dividing line, it is possible for each to intercept the ball at
the point of its line-up. Any players from the line, however, may run
back of this line-up to prevent the ball from going over the rear
boundary, and the point at which the ball is stopped by any such
player indicates the point at which the party must line up for the
next play. It therefore becomes a secondary object of the game to
force one's adversaries back until they have reached their rear
boundary line, where their chances for intercepting the ball are less
than in a forward position, as their movements are more restricted.

For instance, party A throws the ball at party B's boundary. The
latter, by running backward several paces, succeeds in intercepting
the ball at a distance of say five feet beyond its first line-up. The
entire party then takes its stand on this new line and throws the ball
at its opponents' boundary, trying to force them back in similar
manner as far as possible to catch the ball.

START
The parties toss up for which side shall first have the ball.
The ball is then given to the center player in the line, who makes the
first throw. After this first throw the ball may be put in play by any
player in a line.

RULES AND POINTS OF PLAY
Players may run forward of their first or
succeeding line-up to catch the ball, but the line-up never comes
forward of its first position. After a line has been forced backward,
however, if the ball be caught anywhere between the last line-up and
the first, the line moves forward to the new point. Should a ball roll
on the ground, the point at which it stops rolling, or is stopped by
the players trying to catch it, indicates the line at which they must
take their stand. No ball scores a point, however, which rolls beyond
the rear boundary line. When a party has been forced back to its rear
boundary line, it must stand on that line thereafter, unless it should
succeed in stopping the ball forward of that line, when it may move
forward to the new position. No player may step over the boundary
line.

SCORE
One point is scored by the throwing party every time a ball is
thrown beyond the opponents' rear boundary line. Five points
constitute a game.


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