Speedball – modified to fit Lancaster PE space and safety Rules

Created by Elmer Mitchell at the University of Michigan in 1921 for use in their intramural program

He was looking for a game that many students could play with the least amount of instruction and cheap

Speedball includes kicking and dribbling a ball as you do in soccer, dribbling, catching and throwing as you do in basketball, passing and kicking the ball as you do in football plus air dribble

Speedball takes many rules from the games above with a few of it’s own

Object is to get the ball down the field when you have possession of it down the field to the opponent’s goal line for one of the many ways you can score

Start the gamed with a kick off, each team is behind their own restraining line, and this is also procedure is repeated after a score

Conversion - is when the ball travels from the ground to a players feet (foot) to the hands

Types – one foot stationary, two feet stationary, rolling ball lift or partner lift, aerial ball (from a kick)

A team must have 3 conversions in order to begin a scoring play

There is a goal keeper when played outside however Schunke’s rules, no goalie indoors, safety concern

Restart the game when, ball travels out of bounds – soccer style throw in over your head; after a penalty (rule infraction) is called, free kick by the opposing team on the spot of the penalty

Scoring:

3 points, Basketball – shot must be taken from outside the 3pt circle

1 point, Football – touchdown, throw the ball to a teammate over the goal line anywhere (thick black line)

2 points, Soccer – kick into the soccer goal, marked by 2 cones

3 types of dribbles:

Air - as you run you toss the ball in a forward motion to yourself – one time

Soccer – as in a game of soccer no number limit

Basketball – 3 ball bounces then must pass the ball

Infractions:

Traveling with the ball

Illegal use of hands. Ball goes floor to hands

Air dribble more than once

Causing the ball to go out of bounces

Illegally lifting the ball off the ground

Interference

Blocking the ball with your body