The, pushball involving a truly giant ball was a draw 1-1 and the women won the football match by 6-5 - thanks largely to the referee Roy Severn - according to the Echo.
Did Beam invent auto pushball as well as the auto thrill show?
Auto pushball was tame entertainment when contrasted with the staples of the Beam show: demolition derbies, leaping buses, flaming barriers, and sundry death-defying stunts.
Pushball made its public debut between the halves of a Harvard-Brown football game played at Soldiers Field in Cambridge on October 19, 1895.
Here in the book are balls as small as marbles, as huge as the pushballs that became popular in the 1920s, the shuttlecocks that aren't really balls at all, even the blackballs that said we don't want you in our club.