<P> During this time, it was played on the same field as baseball except that there was only one base corresponding to a baseball diamond's 2nd base . Multiple players could be on base at a time, but all needed to get home before the last kicker kicked and the kicking order had retired . </P> <P> There were also two short stop player positions: one between 1st and 2nd and the other between 2nd and 3rd . Home plate was marked by a 3 ft by 4 ft rectangle on the ground . </P> <P> Published in April 1922, Daniel Chase; Supervisor of Physical Education for the New York State Department of Education, describes the earliest known account of adults playing kickball . This game took place at a conference of rural teachers in Mooers Forks, Clinton County, NY where Daniel was teaching games that the teachers could in turn teach to their pupils . They did not have a ball, so they made one out of an old stocking and some rags . The ball was about 7 to 8 inches long and tied off with an old shoelace . The construction of this makeshift ball was demonstrated to the rural teachers by Mr. Braddock Wells . The teachers were assigned numbers to create teams; odd numbers on one team and even numbers on the other . The team captains chose college names to represent each team name . The odds chose Yale & the evens chose Princeton . The game of "Kick Baseball" was the last game they played at the conference to decide the championship for the day . 10 players were chosen for each team and the remaining were organized into a cheering section . Yale kicked first . On the field there was no pitcher, but an extra short - stop between first and second . Only three innings were completed in the heat that day, with Yale ending up as the victor winning 3 to 2 . The cheering sections showed great sportsmanship, applauding all good plays impartially . </P> <P> American World War II correspondent Ernie Pyle reported it being played by U.S. soldiers during the Tunisia Campaign, 1942 - 1943 . </P>

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