a.k.a. British Bulldog
A
playground game that was banned in almost every
school I attended. It's
violent enough to result in
broken arms and
dislocated shoulders on a regular basis.
The players split into two
teams of
equal size, and line up facing each other across the playground, holding hands or linking elbows.
One
team starts by picking out someone from the other team, and calling their name, "Red Rover, Red Rover, send (wotsisface) over!"
Wotsisface then has to let go of his
team mates, and run across towards the line of the other team, with the aim of
breaking through. If he manages to break the line, and force his way through, he gets to choose one of the
enemy team and take them back to join his home team. If he fails to break through the line, he has to join the enemy, and link up with them.
The game finishes when one team has all the
players. The handy thing about this is that everyone ends up on the
winning team.