Same area, we called it “smear the queer.” (Born 1974.) Never once even thought about any sort of sexual reference in the name.
We (mid 70s) only occasionally played Smear the Queer. We usually played “Keep Away”.
Can anyone tell the class how that game is played?
I’m 60 and can remember playing StQ as a little nipper. Our son also had many a game of it while he was growing up.
When I played it, we tied up the gay kid, put him in the middle of the soccer field, and then started drawing on him with magic marker. Everybody knew what the name meant, and I’m shocked, nay flabbergasted, that people here played different versions.
Seriously though, I’m sad because I’ve never played it… The roughest we ever got was Trip Wars (two kids try to trip each other), Steal the Bacon with Tackle, and Suicide (throw a tennis ball against a wall, if you drop it on the rebound then you have to run to the wall before you get pegged)
Thats probably because it was an out doors game that you physically played, Not a video game.
The most exciting part of this by far is the fact that Saby Baby is apparently friends with Morgenstern.
What? I didn’t say I thought it was a video game. Why did you assume I did? Or did a zombie type that?
Saby Baby is attempting to insult those of us under a certain age by saying we never played outside but merely vegetated in front of a tv with our Call of Dutys and our Super Mario Bros.
Well, you could have been outside…
staring at your GameBoys!
Whippersnappers!
I did my playing outside as a kid during the Sixties and early Seventies, and I never heard of the game as anything other than “Kill the Man With the Ball.”
It was called “Kill the man with the ball” when I was a youngster ( mid 70’s ).
I busted many a pair of glasses in those days and as Clothahump noted, it was indeed good times. 
We played Kill the Guy With the Ball and Smear the Queer. For the longest time, I thought “queer” and “quare” were two different words (didn’t really know what either meant) because we only pronounced it “queer” for the game. In all other usage, the Boston accent took over and it was pronounced “quare” (silent r of course.)