Talk:British bulldog (game)

message: I've moved the following statement from the main article to the talk page.  It appears not to be encyclopedic.
: Curiously, The Law of the Playground refuses to put up an entry on the subject.
Lbbzman 15:54, 31 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: The Law of the Playground

message: This entire article is really bad. There's no references and some really non-encyclopaedic content and tone. I've removed the absolute worst, and I'm going to tag it as unreferenced. I'm not even sure if this article is worth saving. Anyone feel like taking it on? Wibbble 03:57, 15 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article Quality 

message: I grew up in New Zealand and I can tell you Bullrush is definately what this game is called there, I've never heard of it being called Bulldogs before until reading this article.  Bullrush is quite a brutal game and the best way to describe it is a game of rugby, without the ball, and as many people you can fit into a field, rushing at each other from either side trying to make it across to the enemy base.  It was banned from schools in the early 80's after children took to fields in masses for games.  I remember when it was banned quite clearly, I was in primary school at the time.  There was a game between my school and another, people turned up with all kinds of underhanded tactics and more than one person left with torn clothing and broken limbs.  It took every teacher in the school to break up the field fights that broke out during the game.  I was 10 years old at the time, but I'd rather describe it as a massive outdoor brawl.  I don't know where else you would find a reference for this, however.  --90.193.106.45 (talk) 16:10, 2 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Bullrush variation

message: This is turning into a repository for reminiscences of schooldays and fine details of variant names and rules in a particular playground one year. Let's all remember that children continually vary the names and rules of their games and any encyclopedia, even one as wonderful as Wikipedia, will become unreadable if it tries to capture every local detail and every fond memory.
Can we have a verifiable article that sums up the essentials of the game and the issues surrounding it? NebY (talk) 00:51, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article quality deteriorating further 

message: I remember playing this with a tennis ball. It was called brandings with the 'it' in the middle using a tennis ball to 'brand' a runner who was then out of that game.  A variation involved 'it' chasing the other children round the playground. And no, i don't have any citations Coolabahapple (talk) 04:34, 12 July 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Variation to game 

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message: There must be some sources if British Bulldog originated in the UK. I expected an evolutionary process, maybe from King Cæsar to British Bulldog. Some kind of "Tackling Cæsar". But i couldn't find anything. British Bulldog appears in the 1940s in the regular UK news press and later in some UK books. But no history or pre-history has been found in any UK publication.
It seems that the game, or in this case the name, is more "British" in a British Empire sense, not "British" in the UK sense. It could be from Canada (with some earlier roots in the U.S. gymnastics movement), which always was my first guess.
The Boy's Own Paper would probably be the last station of research (or are there any autobiographies of popular rugby players?). It seems that the UK boys played Cricket and a game called "Touch" (maybe Touch football). That's what they used for exercises. The term "tackle" in the Boy's paper seems more connected to sport fishing and tales about American football. --188.108.124.169 (talk) 10:38, 9 March 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  UK sources