Featured on PDR in the collection “Plaything of the Gods”: Photographs of Pushball (early 1900s)

The scene is almost surreal: boys in collared shirts chasing a giant ball across a field. In one picture, the ball fills a horse-drawn cart; in another, it blots out an entire human being, save their foot and hat. This is pushball: in the early twentieth century, it was charged with separating university-aged men from the boys.