Red Rover

Red rover (also known as forcing the city gates and octopus tag) is a game played primarily by children on playgrounds.This 19th-century children's group game (requiring around 10 or more players total) is thought to have originated in Britain and then spread to Australia, Canada, and the United States.

Game

The game is played between two lines of players (usually called the "East" or "West" team, although this does not relate to the actual relative location of the teams), usually around thirty feet apart. The game starts when the first team, in this example the "East" team, calls a player out, using a line like "Red rover, red rover, send [player's on opposite team] right over", sometimes being sung.

The immediate goal for the person called is to run to the other line and break the "East" team's chain (formed by the linking of hands). If the person called fails to break the chain, this player joins the "East" team. However, if the player successfully breaks the chain, this player may select either of the two "links" broken by the successful run, and take them to join the "West" team. The "West" team then calls out "Red rover" for a player on the "East" team, and play continues. The game needs five people to play at least, although this would be a very short game.

Red and Rover

Red and Rover or Red & Rover is an award winning daily syndicated comic strip by Brian Basset that debuted in 2000. It is about a young boy and his dog.

It is usually set around the end of the 1960s or the beginning of the 1970s, although a strip from November 20, 2009 depicted a car which bears a striking resemblance to a mid-1970s Ford Country Squire station wagon, and in a Sunday strip from August 28, 2011 Red plays a parody of Jaws, a film from 1975.

When Basset began drawing Red and Rover he was also drawing the daily strip Adam@home, which he had been drawing since 1984. Basset decided to focus squarely on Red and Rover after nearly 25 years of drawing Adam@home in 2009 and handed over control of the older strip to Big Top artist Rob Harrell.

Red and Rover has been nominated three times for Best Newspaper Comic Strip. In 2013, Red and Rover received the Reuben Award for Best Newspaper Comic Strip by the National Cartoonists Society.

Cast of characters

Red (real name Russell McLean) is a 10-year-old with dreams of going into space one day. He enjoys baseball and model rocketry. He loves Rover, his dog. Red can understand what Rover is thinking.

Red Rover (clipper)

Red Rover was the name of two clipper ships.

Red Rover, opium clipper

Red Rover, built in 1830, was a 254-ton clipper "built, owned, and operated" by Captain William Clifton which was "one of the fastest" opium clippers running between Calcutta and Lintin in the 1830s.Red Rover was modeled after an American War of 1812 blockade runner, Prince de Neufchatel, and was "the first clipper to sail to Canton against the wind."

The well-known firm of Jardine, Matheson & Co. held shares in the ship beginning in 1832.

Red Rover, California clipper

A second clipper named Red Rover, active in the California trade, was built by Fernald & Pettigrew in 1852. Between January 22 - May 2, 1854, the ship

Sailed from New York to San Francisco in 120 (122) days. The Seaman's Bride and Winged Racer which left New York one respectively two days after the Red Rover arrived at San Francisco on May 23.

Red Rover was damaged in the December 26–27, 1853 fire which destroyed the clipper Great Republic.