“Dirt clod fights were common.”
LOL...reminds me of snowball fights with soft snow and icy snow. Ouch!
The hedgeball battles between us farm kids (including the neighboring ones) was fun AND painful.
We had three big hedge trees that provided plenty of ammo. The approx 3’ deep ditches on each side of the gravel road near our house were the ‘trenches’, and the road itself was ‘no man’s land’.