Other Water Games - Water Box Ball, Uno-Goal Polo

Water Box Ball

This game is played the width of pool in shallow water 3 to 4 feet in depth. The ball is made of rubber and about 7 inches in diameter. The goals-from which game gets its name-are 2 boxes facing playing area, one on each side of pool, and 3 feet back from edge. They should be about 5 feet up on a support or platform. Boxes should be a foot high, a foot deep, and about 2 feet wide. Open tops of the boxes face each other, and word GOAL may be painted inside.

Five-feet throw lines are marked parallel to sides of pool. Three or more players make up a team. The game consists of 2 halves of 7 minutes each. Object of game is to toss ball into goal. Ball must be thrown with both hands, and to be counted a fair score must hit in the back of box. Ball must be tossed from outside 5-foot throw line. Each goal counts one point.

Game is started by both teams lining up in the water at respective sides of the pool, holding the wall with one hand. The ball is thrown into center of playing area by referee at beginning of game, and after a goal is scored. No fouls are called, but any player guilty of rough play or other offense may be taken out of game.
Rules on tackling, ducking, holding, etc., should be agreed upon by players before game is started.

Uno-Goal Polo

This game proved highly popular when tried by the Department of Recreation and Parks in Los Angeles. Basically, it is a combination of basketball and water polo, and is a good game for fairly expert swimmers looking for a lead-up game before trying water polo.

A regulation water-polo ball is used in an area about 15 to 20 yards square, with water at least 3 feet deep. The goal is an inflated automobile inner tube. If possible, any old-style tube with as large a radius as possible should be used- a truck tube is ideal. Around goal there is an “imaginary” penalty area of 3 yards. Teams consist of 5 players and 3 substitutes. Goal tender is the only player allowed to enter penalty area or touch goal. Playing time is 20 minutes, divided into 4 5-minute quarters, with one minute between quarters and 5 minutes between halves.

At start of game, each team places one man in each corner of square playing area. Goal tenders face each other directly in front of referee who blows his whistle to signal the start and throws ball between them. Once the game is on, players may enter any part of playing area except penalty area around goal. A goal, worth 2 points, is scored when ball is thrown inside tube. No goals may be scored by goal tenders. If tie occurs at end of game, a 3-minute overtime is played. If score is still tied after overtime has been played, the first team to score a goal wins.

Following each goal, ball is dead and must be put back into play by opposing goal tender, who passes it. If ball lands within 3-yard penalty area, it must be retrieved by a goal tender who passes it out to a teammate. If ball is thrown out of playing area, referee tosses it to nearest opponent from where it left playing area.

Scored fouls count one point. An ordinary foul is called against the goal tender if he moves more than 3 yards from goal, or if he moves goal out of place as a ball is thrown toward it. Ordinary fouls are called against all players if they stand or touch bottom during deep-water play; hold ball for more than 10 seconds; hold it under water or strike it with clenched first; start play before starting whistle; delay game; hold or duck an opponent.

Penalty for an ordinary foul is a free throw to goal from place where foul occurred, taken by player from opposing team nearest the offender. All other players stay in position until ball has left his hands. Penalty for a “willful” foul is a free throw, as for an ordinary foul, and offender is removed from water, without substitution, until a goal has been scored. Willful fouls include: an ordinary foul committed deliberately; wasting time; any player except goal tender entering 3-yard area; changing position during a foul throw; goal tender interfering with a free throw; leaving field of play without permission of referee; refusing obedience to referee. A free throw which rebounds from goal remains in play.

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