Angleball is said to have been started by Rip Engle, a football coach at Penn State before Joe Paterno. Engle devised the game as a way for his players to maintain fitness in the off-season. Deliberately, it has light contact and few rules or requirements.

Two large balls are placed on standards at opposite sides of a field. In a mixture of soccer and basketball, teams pass a smaller ball back and forth trying to get close enough to attempt to knock the other team's ball off its perch. A goal is worth one point and any offensive player who is touched by a defensive player has three seconds to pass the ball or it's a turnover.

Like basketball, teams don't have goalies and the goal is surrounded by a key area where offensive players aren't permitted. Teams don't have a set number of players either. However many who show up to play just split in half, although five or six per side is considered ideal.

There is no regulation field size and out-of-bounds are arbitrarily set.

External link

• The Clarion Ledger: Angleball gives families chance to get together