Students once played a sport with a ball taller than they were

pushball — Library of Congress / no known restrictions (via The Public Domain Review)

Pushball is a sport that uses a ball six feet three inches across. The Massachusetts inventor Moses G. Crane came up with it in the 1890s because he couldn't follow American football, a small brown ball moving across a mostly brown field. — Read the rest

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