we also played a game called "smear the queer", which entailed chasing and tackling whoever has the tennis ball, at which point they release the ball and somebody else grabs it and tries to avoid being caught and tackled.
we played on the blacktop at parochial school.
and it had nothing to do with sexual preference.
and the toughest queer was a girl named mary benham.
Smear the queer was also a term used during football practice. It was a drill we used during practice. Nothing meant by it other than it was a term used to describe the drill.