Horses and the large ball, the only equine teamsport with the horse pushing the large ball by itself

International names of this old horse game: pushball on horseback, pushball a cheval (F), horse soccer, equine soccer, equine pushball, paardenvoetbal (NL), horse football, hoofball

Equine pushball fascinates Pacific Slope (New York Times, April 21, 1907) http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=2&res=9407EFDB163EE233A25752C2A9629C946697D6CF&oref=slogin&oref=slogin_r=2&res=9407EFDB163EE233A25752C2A9629C946697D6CF&oref=slogin&oref=slogin_r=2&res=9407EFDB163EE233A25752C2A9629C946697D6CF&oref=slogin&oref=slogin

Horse soccer (USA)
http://www.horsesoccer.com/

Equine soccer
http://www.naturalhorsetalk.com/documents/PlayEquineSoccer.pdf

Hoofball
http://science.blogdig.net/archives/articles/June2006/03/Hoofball.html
Source of this article is: http://4beatgait.blogspot.com/ => see hoofball junior!

Paardenvoetbal - Horsefootball (Europe, NL)
Movie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCFLOMeGaf4

(Other sorts of) pushball around the world

Pushball (on foot)
The oldest pushball game is pushball (on foot) (USA, 1891) with a large amount of people on a big square playing a 6 feet large ball above their head.

See the blog of Thorn Pricks with "Who Rembers Pushball?" with the whole history of pushball in general.
http://thornpricks.blogspot.com/2006/11/who-remembers-pushball.html

Pushball Rush Rules (since 1914)
http://www.lib.rpi.edu/Archives/traditions/rushes/push_ball.html

Still in the USA Army the soldiers are training with (strategic) pushball (on foot). And also an University competition of pushball (on foot) still exists in the USA at this moment.
I found pictures in Life magazine (1941) of the US Army playing this game in the Second World War(see the pictures in a next article on this blog).

This added movie is made in 1933 in Chicago, it gives a good impression in playing pushball (on foot).
Chicago, IL: Exclusive pictures of a hectic pushball game in which the Freshmen of Loyola University defeat the Sophomores in a wild battle for a prize beer keg, after many players suffer bumps and bruises.
This item is part of the collection: Universal Newsreels
Production Company: Universal Studios
Audio/Visual: silent, b&w
Creative Commons license: Public Domain

See the movie on this site:
http://www.archive.org/details/1933-11-15_Loyola_Students_Compete_For_Keg

Thai elephant soccer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLF9oxx1DKs

Moto Polo: Polo on four wheels => "car pushball" http://blog.modernmechanix.com/2006/05/page/8/