Muckleball
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Muckleball (sometimes called "muckle the man with the ball", "kill-the-guy-with-the-ball", "kill the carrier", among other names) is the reverse of regular tag; all the other players chase "it". This player is denoted by carrying a ball (usually a gridiron football). When they are caught, they are tackled, or "muckled". Whoever retrieves the ball first or whoever attacks the one who is it then becomes it. Sometimes the last player arriving to tackle the former ball carrier is the next person to be it; in other variations the player with the ball throws the ball up in the air, where it is caught by another player who becomes it.[1][2][3]
External links
[edit]https://books.google.com/books/about/The_Living_Age.html?id=yU0wAQAAMAAJ
References
[edit]- ^ Mastracchio, Bruce (2015-04-04). "Muckleball in the Mud". East Greenwich News. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
- ^ Kinkead, Kevin (2024-06-10). "Opinion: "Kill the Man with the Ball" is a Great American Game and Needs to Return". Crossing Broad. Retrieved 2025-05-02.
- ^ "Boost for the Muckle Ball Game at McPherson Next Monday--It's a Canny Scheme". The Salina Evening Journal. 11 May 1911. p. 5.