Talk:Speedball (American)

History
I have just removed the entire history section from the article. It claimed the game was invented at "Hump High School" in Spokane, and there is no Hump High School in Spokane. It also went into detail about Lewis and Clark High School's role in the history of the game (as a LCHS graduate I would have expected to hear about the game if it was in fact connected to the school) and the presence of a Speedball hall of fame located across the street from Lewis and Clark. The location it referenced is occupied by Interstate 90. Nothing in the section was factual. SpokaneWilly (talk) 20:03, 20 July 2014 (UTC)

Contradiction
This article is very similar to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Speedball_%28sport%29. It has the same creator but different rules, these should be combined.

Speedball used to be a common game in California grade schools and middle schools and I played it a lot growing up.

In the late 60s, I worked in the PE department of Barbara Worth Junior High School in Brawley, CA. One of the jobs assigned to me was to referee speedball games. No one seemed able to tell me what the official rules of speedball were so I wrote up a set. Later, these rules were distributed to other schools in the area and elsewhere. I don't know if anyone is still using them and I no longer have a copy myself but they were pretty much as described in the article except a player was allowed to take one step while holding the ball prepatory to kicking it and a forward pass was allowed only for goal or by goalie. Also, any kicked ball could be caught with the hands before the first bounce. Kicked goals were two points and passed and penalty goals were one, I think.

Halfelven 23:20, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

It seems odd to me that a game called "speedball" forbids running. Just an observation. Atypicaloracle (talk) 09:44, 20 October 2009 (UTC)

I agree with Atypicaloracle. My dad played it in the 70's in high school and the rules allowed running as long as you dribbled it between your hands. Everysubjectman —Preceding undated comment added 21:05, 17 January 2010 (UTC).

Gatorball?
Isn't this sport also called Gatorball?

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Requested move

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The result of the move request was: not moved. Per DrKiernan I'll just redirect this article to Speedball (sport). Jenks24 (talk) 12:18, 25 August 2014 (UTC)

Speedball (American) → Speedball (soccer variant) – really ambiguous and so WP:PRECISE. American is also, arguably, an ambiguous term. Gregkaye (talk) 20:55, 14 August 2014 (UTC)
 * As can be seen from the page's creation this page is describing the same sport as Speedball (sport). As the term "American" is ambiguous this page can redirect to the disambiguation page or be deleted. DrKiernan (talk) 12:30, 23 August 2014 (UTC)


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Per DrKiernan, who recommended to redirect this title to the disambiguation page, and the variant closure that redirected this to "speedball (sport)"; I've requested an RfD over the variation of targets. -- 65.94.169.222 (talk) 04:52, 26 August 2014 (UTC)