Students Playing Cage Ball
Item Information
- Title:
- Students Playing Cage Ball
- Description:
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This photograph shows Springfield College students playing cage ball, an annual game played on a football field that involves two teams of twenty-five players pushing a gigantic ball across their opponent’s goal.
- Date:
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[1950?–1975?]
- Format:
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Photographs
- Location:
- Springfield College Archives and Special Collections
- Collection (local):
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College Archives Digital Collections
- Series:
- Office of Student Affairs Records
- Subjects:
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Springfield College
Springfield College--Students
Springfield College--Traditions
Pratt Field
Springfield College--Athletic Fields
Springfield (Mass.)
Balls (Sporting goods)
Games
Students
- Places:
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Massachusetts > Hampden (county) > Springfield
- Link to Item:
- https://cdm16122.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15370coll2/id/5647
- Terms of Use:
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Text and images are owned, held, or licensed by Springfield College and are available for personal, non-commercial, and educational use, provided that ownership is properly cited. A credit line is required and should read: Courtesy of Springfield College, Babson Library, Archives and Special Collections. Any commercial use without written permission from Springfield College is strictly prohibited. Other individuals or entities other than, and in addition to, Springfield College may also own copyrights and other propriety rights. The publishing, exhibiting, or broadcasting party assumes all responsibility for clearing reproduction rights and for any infringement of United States copyright law.
Contact host institution for more information.
- Publisher:
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Springfield College
- Notes:
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A team receives one point if the ball crosses the end line, two points if the ball is pushed entirely under the goal post, and three points if the ball is pushed entirely over the goal post. The game consists of two twenty-minute halves and one ten-minute break. The game is traditionally played between classes (e.g. freshmen vs. sophomores). Cage balls usually have a diameter of 48” or 60”. Although called cage ball at Springfield College, the game is similar to pushball, which was supposedly invented by M. G. Crane of Newton, Massachusetts, in 1891, and was played at Harvard University the following year. Emory University students played pushball from 1923 to 1955, and students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute played the game from 1914 to 1929. Contemporary cage balls have an internal rubber bladder to contain the air. The outside is sometimes vinyl, though for many years the covering was only made of canvas. Although spherical, the cage ball shares the American football's laces, which holds in the bladder.
- Identifier:
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cageball- group-unknown-date
