Really?
We played that in Catholic school in the 50s.
Man if Bishop Sheen only knew we were flirting with the red menace.....
In the late fifties early sixties we played a crude form of kickball too in grade school. About fifty kids on a side and no rules other than kicking the ball into a playground fence for a "goal". Quite a lot of fun actually as every time you got close to the ball, there were about twenty other kids trying to kick it.