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

Pushball, according to Boing Boing, was invented in the eighteen-nineties by Massachusetts native Moses G. Crane. Crane created the sport because he couldn't follow American football—a small brown ball on a mostly brown field was hard to track. His solution was a ball six feet three inches across. The sport was played by students.

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