The professional educator class in government schools today seem bent on trying to make every student some sort of effete pansy. In the long run, it's a terrible idea. It is counter to human nature and natural competitiveness.
In Junior High, we played “Eleven Booty”, a particularly painful form of all-against-all basketball. If you scored 11 points, you were out. Last one out had to hug the basketball pole while the winners took turns launching the basketball (at high speed) at his posterior (hence the name). The number of “lashes” depended on the number of players: e.g. five players, the first player out got five shots, the second four, etc.
You did NOT want to be the last player out in 11 Booty when they were 10 players. You’d have trouble sitting for all your afternoon classes.
One of the games the kids created is a form of wall ball.
They take a tennis ball and throw it against one of the walls, as it bounces back they attempt to catch it.
If they go for it and miss, they have to face the wall, and the kid throwing the ball get a free shot at hitting the other in the back, with the tennis ball (they have to stand pretty far away when the throw it.
The kids don't whale it too hard cause they know they could be the next one facing the wall.
The kids love the game.