Early 1900’s:
Colorado: La Plata County Native American Ute girls play basketball (photo)
New Jersey: Millburn's first girl's basketball team organized by Martha Condit and Alice and Louise Eager.
New York: New York City and surrounding towns organize high school basketball leagues that played in armories.
1900:
December 12: Indiana: Elgin High School girls form two teams named the Goliaths and the Midgets and stage a public contest at Columbia Hall. The Midgets, behind the play of Virginia Hammond and Clara Kaufman, take a 10-2 decision. The girls' game is strongly supported by the high school newspaper for, among other things, "it is the only exercise that has thus far been found that most girls can indulge in."
University of Missouri Basketball Team (photo)
1901:
Rules: In an attempt to standardize rules, Luther Gulick and other leaders at an 1899 physical training meeting in Springfield appoint four women representing Smith, Oberlin, Radcliffe and Boston Normal School of Gymnastics. At the meeting to form a Women's Basket Ball Rules Committee to incorporate all modifications into one set of rules, with the health of the players the most important factor. Berenson heads the committee. It decides on Berenson's original three-court rules (in which only certain players play offense), plus five to 10 players on a side.
Rules: First publication of official Basket Ball for Women by Spalding Athletic Library, A.G. Spalding with Senda Berenson as editor. Court is split into 3 equal zones with between 5-10 women on each side. No snatching or batting of ball. Holding the ball for more than 3 seconds was a foul. Only three dribbles before a shot or pass. However, Baer's rules and men's rules continue to be used. As late as 1914, one half to two thirds of women were playing by men's rules, while the others were playing by at least five different versions of women's rules.
Senda Berenson article, asserts the Value of Adapted Women's Basketball, From Senda Berenson, "Significance of Basketball for Women," in Line Basketball for Women,ed. Senda Berenson (New York: A. G. Spalding, 1901), 20-27.
Basketball begins at the Connecticut Agricultural College (later UConn).
Kansas State plays its first public women's basketball game.
March: Wheaton College women avenge an earlier loss to DeKalb, winning 8-4.
Maryland: Bryn Mawr takes to the court against St. Timothy's School in the nation's first documented girls' high school basketball game, and the two Baltimore-area institutions have repeated the matchup annually ever since.
Women's basketball team, University of Washington (photo)
1902:
May 2: Louisiana: The first basketball game at Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute may have been held between the Green team and Yellow team during the annual Field Day. The Green team included Captain, Armye Guidry; goal players, Rhena Boudreaux and Perrly Roy; base players, Aimee Thibodeau, Loolahbel Williams, Oceana Belanger, and Eva Dudley. The first basketball team was formed in 1904.
Kansas State women ask the faculty to play basketball against other colleges but are denied the right to play.
The first University of Kentucky basketball team is organized despite objections from the women’s physical education director.
Maine: Lois Warren, daughter of a paper mill manager, who’d attended Vassar College, returns home and organizes mill girls for games.
The first Miami University team.
The first University of Texas women's basketball game is played. The "Young Ladies' Basketball Team" beat the "Town Girls" 7-4.
1903:
Rules: Women's BasketBall Rules Committee adopts out-of-bounds rule that awards ball to opponent. (It used to be legal to "chase" the ball). Number of players changed to 6-9, 11 officials. Halves shortened from 20 minutes to 15 minutes.
Eight high schools, private schools and colleges organize to form the Girls Basketball League of Southern California, the first on the West Coast.
California: Pasadena High School defeats Los Angeles High School 95-0. Team features May Sutton, who would become first American to win Wimbledon.
California: Pomona College women's basketball team starts their program with win against Occidental College by a score of 19-15.
Florida State College basketball team (photo)
Indiana: The girls basketball program at the high school in New London, was located in a Quaker area, and was also integrated.
Inter-Settlement Athletic Association founded. Teams sponsored by New York City settlement houses - organizations that service the new immigrant population, primarily in the Lower East Side - debate whether their league should play by men’s or women’s rules. (University Settlement, Leroy Scott House, Gordon House, Hudson Guild, Phelps House, Riverside House, Nurses Settlement, Greenpoint Settlement). There were other such teams in Chicago.
1904:
May 14: California: Los Angeles Herald reports on L.A. High School’s Victory over Glendale.
Florida State College basketball team (photo)
Western Illinois University basketball team is established.
Missouri Valley College. (film clip)
University of Missouri organizes a Women's Basketball Association. By 1924-25, with almost 140 signing up, basketball was one of the most popular women's sports. A "color tournament" of fourteen teams was organized as well as an inter-class competition.
Montana: The team from Fort Shaw Boarding School travels to play and perform at the St. Louis Worlds Fair, is the subject of a book. Made up of Native Americans including players Nettie Wirth, Belle Johnson, Emma Rose Sansaver, the team was also honored by its local opponents.
1905:
Chicago, IL: Girls playing basketball on a grass court 1, 2, 3 (photos)
University of Oklahoma women's basketball team (photo)
1905-06:
The National Women’s Basketball Committee becomes part of the American Physical Education Association, known today as American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance (AAHPERD).
1906:
Rules: Five to nine players are on a side. Description of backboard follows design of present backboards.
California: Tulare High School girls basketball team (photo)
Texas girls play high school tournaments.
Wheaton College faculty ban women from intercollegiate play. It was not until 1960 that Wheaton women returned to intercollegiate play.
1907:
Boise, ID: The first girls basketball team is composed of seven members.
Illinois: Chicago Public Schools Superintendent Edwin Cooley bans city teams from organizing girls basketball league. A year later, the Illinois High School Athletic Association banned girls from participating in interscholastic sports, especially basketball.
Chicago,IL: Spalding girls' basketball players 1, 2, 3. (photos)
Chicago,IL: South Side Turngemeinde basketball players 1, 2 (photos). A turngemeinde was a German athletic club.
Chicago,IL: Central Turnverein basketball girls' players 1, 2 (photos)
Chicago,IL: Central Park Congregational girls' basketball players 1, 2, 3, 4 (photos)
Chicago,IL: Lincoln Methodist Episcopal basketball player (photo)
Chicago,IL: Hull House, the settlement founded by Jane Addams fields a basketball team. (photo)
Wichita, KS: Lewis Academy basketball team (photo)
Kentucky: Caldwell College Wahpanoochis intramural basketball team (photo)
1908:
Rules: Agnes R. Wayman, a member of the Women's Basketball Rules Committee suggests that coaches emphasize the feminine traits of their players on and off the court.
Rules: Boxing up (two opponents guarding a player in the act of shooting) is a foul. Placing one hand on a ball already held by an opponent is a foul. Player is warned after third foul, sent to bench after fourth.
November 19: Maine: Aroostook State Normal School's first basketball game is played between the senior and freshman classes.
Many parents begin to forbid their daughters playing basketball, fearing its bad influence.
Amateur Athletic Union (AAU), headed by James Sullivan, which governs sports activities outside of high schools or colleges, declares it will not permit girls to participate in basketball games in public places.
Arizona Women's Basketball Team (photo)
California: Tulare High School girls basketball team (photo)
Chicago,IL: Hull House girls' basketball players (photo)
Chicago,IL: Spalding Women's Basketball players 1, 2 (photos)
Chicago,IL: Christian Temple female basketball players 1, 2 (photos)
Chicago,IL: St. Martin Episcopal basketball players 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. (photos)
North Dakota: Milton girls’ basketball team (photo)
University of Texas Basketball Team (photo)
Circa 1909-1920:
University of Minnesota Women's Basketball Team (photo)
Washington, D.C.: At the National Training School for Women and Girls, founded by Nannie Helen Burroughs young black women play basketball.
1909:
Colorado: Arvada High School takes Girls' Basketball Suburban League Championship.
Chicago,IL: Medill High School basketball players 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 (photos)
Chicago,IL: St. Martin Episcopal basketball player (photo)
Chicago,IL: Austin Methodist Episcopal women's basketball team (photo)
Chicago,IL: Hyde Park High School players 1, 2, 3, 4 (photos)
Chicago,IL: First Methodist Episcopal basketball team 1, 2 (photos)
Chicago,IL: St John’s girls’ basketball team (photo)
Indiana: Hobart Girls High School team's six victories against teams from Crown Point, Gary, and East Chicago secures the championship of Lake County. (photo)
Nebraska: Miller High School girls’ basketball team (photo)
North Dakota: Milton Girl's basketball team (photo)
Washingon: Kenewick High School Girls Basketball Team (photo)
1910:
Rules: Dribbling is banned.
Schools begin limiting the number of games played against other schools, to prevent girls from becoming too competitive.
California: Tulare High School girls basketball team (photo)
Colorado: Aspen High School girls’ basketball team (photo)
Chicago,IL: First Methodist Episcopal basketball team 1, 2, 3 (photos)
Chicago,IL: West Park Women's Basketball players 1, 2, 3 (photos)
Kentucky: Wapunochee interclass basketball team of Caldwell College (photo)
Louisiana: Crowley High School girls basketball team (photo)
Ely, NV: White Pine HS Girl's Basketball Team. Champion girl's basketball team that traveled all over the northern part of the state. (photo)
Northern Arizona Normal School Women's Basketball Team (photo)
Tennessee: Glendale School, Maury County Girl’s Basketball Team (photo)
Texas: girls compete in regional championships.
1911:
Rules: Rules List.
Arizona: Tempe High School Girls Basketball Team (photo)
Arkanas: DeKalb Girl’s Basketball Team (photo)
Indiana University inaugurates state high school basketball tournament with 12 public high schools participating.
Pennsylvania: Westminster College Girls Basketball Team (photo)
1912:
Dudley A. Sargent, M.D. publishes Are Athletics Making Girls Masculine? A Practical Answer to a Question Every Girl Asks.
Colorado: Six members of the Aspen, Colorado girls basketball team (photo)
New York: State Normal School (later State University at Albany) Women's Basketball team (photo)
North Carolina: Eastern Carolina Training School (now Eastern Carolina University) organizes the Women's Athletic Association to "encourage and develop athletic spirit; provide recreation for students; and train girls to carry on independent athletic activities." It includes three branches of athletics: basketball, tennis and cross-country walking, each supervised by a faculty member.
Miami University abolishes intercollegiate basketball.
Washington: Tulalip Indian School's first Girls' Basketball Team (photo)
1913:
Rules: Officiating first appeared in guides.
Rules: Single dribble returns, but ball must bounce knee high, If the court is small, the court can be divided in half and the center on five-player team (center had special markings) could play entire court but not shoot for a basket. Two-handed shot only worth one point, instead of two.
Colorado: The Brush girls’ basketball team (photo)
NEW! Kentucky: Logan County "Mohawks" (photo)
Oregon State University reduces basketball to interclass play, limited to the months of spring.
1914:
The American Olympic Committee formally opposes women's athletic competition in the Olympics.
Maine: Thorton Academy girls win the State Basketball Championship title, finishing the season with a 9-1 record.
Seattle,WA: Columbia City Athletic Club Basketbal team (photo)
1915:
Canada: The Edmonton Commercial Graduates Basketball Club, simply know as the Edmonton Grads, are founded. Coached by John Percy Page, players were mostly teachers and secretaries. Played from 1915-1940.
North Carolina: East Carolina University Basketball Team (photo)
1916:
Rules: No coaching is allowed from the sidelines during game (only at halftime) No timeouts, no substitutions.
Colorado: Eagle County High School Girl's Basketball team (photo)
North Carolina: East Carolina Teachers Training School Team, second photo (now East Carolina University) (photo)
Ohio: Grove City High School Girls Basketball Team (photo)
Oregon State University women’s basketball is again given varsity status. By 1919, basketball was so popular over 300 women tried out for the team.
1917:
Rules: Player is warned after four fouls, disqualified after five. Center in small two-court game can shoot if she plays full court. Shooting foul now yields two free throws.
Maryland: Cumberland Allegany County High School Girls basketball team. (photo)
Nevada: A huge letter "T" was built in a hillside to honor Tonopah High School’s state championship girls basketball team.
North Carolina: East Carolina Teachers Training School Team, photo (now East Carolina University) (photo)
Tennessee: East Tennessee State Normal School Girl’s Basketball Team. (photo)
Seattle,WA: Girls basketball Team at Collins Playfield (photo)
1918:
Rules: Basket with open bottom instead of a closed basket with pull-chain became official in order to speed up the game. Bounce pass legalized. Substitutes may be used, but players cannot re-enter the game. Throw-in from out of bounds awarded opponent for a violation (instead of free throw). Freedom to shoot reversed for roving center in small two-court game. Three timeouts of five minutes each are available.
Dr. J. Anna Norris publishes the "Official Basket Ball Guide for Women."
Colorado: Boys and girls in Keota play basketball (photo)
Kentucky: University of Louisville Basketball Team
North Carolina: East Carolina Teachers Training School Team (now East Carolina University) (photo)
Texas: When the State Athletic Commissions ceases sponsoring state tournaments, three rival organizations step in to continue girls tournaments. Officially sponsored Texas state tournaments don’t resume until 1951.
Texas: Brownsville High School girls' basketball team (photo)
Wisonsin: Oshkock Normal School begins awarding varsity letters to women's basketball players. The "O" letters, however, are smaller than those earned by the men's players as the administration believed the men put in more practice time and played more games.
1919:
North Carolina: East Carolina Teachers Training School Team (now East Carolina University) (photo)
Oklahoma: An unofficial girls' high school basketball championship emerged in 1919, and a sanctioned championship came in 1924.
Oregon State University Women's Varsity Basketball Team (photo)
Pennsylvania: Mercer County, Greenville High School Girls Basketball Team (photo)
Tennessee: Dr. Mary Douglas Ayres Ewell, graduate of Sophie Newcomb College for Women in 1917, played under Clara Baer. Mary Ayres returned to Knoxville in 1919 and was named coach for the University of Tennessee girls' basketball team. In March 1920, UT women students, with Ayres' approval, requested "equal rights and privileges" with male athletes including team travel to other colleges for athletic events, increased funding for the women's program, and representation on the Athletic Council.
Circa 1920's
In 1920s through the 1940s, competitive women's basketball flourished in industrial towns, rural areas, and African American communities around the country.
Denver,CO: West High School women's basketball team is integrated (photo)
Oklahoma: Woodville Girls Basketball Team
1920:
Industrial leagues: Teams of players sponsored by the companies they work for begin to emerge. Companies begin to recruit women right out of high school or college because a winning team is good publicity.
Black colleges in South continue to encourage interscholastic rivalries. South Carolina Agricultural and Mechanical College and Alabama State Teachers College host high school tournaments for girls.
Indian School girls playing basketball outdoors (photo)
Colorado: Craig High School football and basketball team, Meeker High School basketball and football team (photo)
Chicago,IL: The Roma Girls, a team of African Americans, are stars, playing in the women’s division of the African American basketball league, featuring church and local club teams.
Iowa: Correctionville wins first state championship tournament. Players used hand signals since they couldn’t talk on court.
Kentucky: KHSAA begins sponsorship of a girls’ bracket in the state tournament.
Kentucky: The Chandler Normal School, the first black high school in Lexington, Girl's Basketball team.
Maine: Stonington High School girls' basketball team (photo)
New Jersey: Princeton High School Girls' Basketball Team (photo)
North Carolina: East Carolina Teachers Training School Team (now East Carolina University) (photo)
Oklahoma: Woodville Girl's Basketball Team (photo)
Texas: Industrial league women’s basketball is so large, over 1,000 women were applying to play in AAU sanctioned tournaments.
Texas: Brownsville High School girls' basketball team (photo)
University of Texas basketball team (photo)
1921:
Rules: Two-handed overhead field goal now is worth one point (instead of two, because only vertical guarding is allowed and this shot has been perfected).
Margaret Katherine Majer (pronounced "Mayor") becomes first coach of Penn's women's athletic teams and organizes a women's basketball team. She schedules the first intercollegiate competitions for women and play against eight opponents in the first year, including Bryn Mawr College, Drexel University, and Temple University.
Jeux Feminins, the first all-women Olympics, is held in Monaco. Three hundred women from five countries compete in many sports not permitted in the Olympic Games, such as track and field and basketball. They are held again in 1922 and 1923.
Alabama: Hueytown High School Girls' Basketball Team (photo)
Kentucky High School Athletic Association (KHSAA) sponsors the first girls' basketball state championship. As early as 1922, there were fifty-one girls' teams participating in district tournaments.
Maine: Ann McKechnie, coach of Deering High (Portland, ME) devises the block play (screening), and works with her tall players so they’ll excel (low-post play) as well as scouting elementary schools teams for upcoming talent. A player on Thorton Academy's championship teams, coach McKechnie's innovations help lead Deering High to almost a decade of state championships.
North Carolina: East Carolina Teachers Training School Team (now East Carolina University) (photo)
1922:
Rules: Rules state there must be at least six players on a side, maximum of nine in order to lessen competition/stress (5 player) and congestion (10 players). Tie games are allowed to stand "to minimize the emphasis on winning."
The National Amateur and Athletic Federation (NAAF) is founded, committed to boys and girls being on an "equal footing with the same standards, the same program and the same regulations."
Arizona: Northern Arizona University (photo)
Los Angeles,CA: YMCA hosts a recreational league for girls.
Kansas: The Shawnee Mission Hill Girls Basketball Team ("The Shawnee Mission Six") wins seventeen straight games and wins the first state championship.
Kentucky: 50 high school girl’s teams compete in district tournaments that lead to a state championship.
Maine: Aroostook State Normal School (photo)
New York: Ilion High School Girls Basketball Team.
North Carolina: East Carolina Teachers Training School Team (now East Carolina University) (photo)
Washington: Washington Renton High School basketball team, Renton (photo)
1923:
Lou Henry Hoover, head of Girl Scouts of America and wife of President Herbert Hoover, helps the Women's Division of the National Amateur Athletic Federation (WDNAAF).
So many industrial companies are playing each other at this time, the first world championships are held for the Underwood Trophy. Edmonton Grads defeat the Cleveland Favorite Knits. The Grads would win this trophy 17 times in a row.
The WDNAAF holds its first conference. It attacks competitive athletics, especially basketball as being unhealthy and inappropriate. Concern that women's scholastic athletics will begin to resemble men's (quasi-professional, corrupt, promoting betting) they promote a "Sports for Sports sake" philosophy.
Alaska: Tsimshian women's basketball team (photo)
Colorado: Arvada High School takes Girls' Basketball Suburban League Championship.
Chicago,IL: Members of the Logan Port women's basketball team (photo)
Indiana: Hammond High girls team. As interscholastic competition disappears, alternatives developed. Some areas developed "Play Days" during which different schools would gather, mix together and play against each other. High schools throughout the Calumet region established athletic clubs for girls. Each school formed teams according to grades. The seniors, juniors, sophomores, and freshmen competed against each other in a manner similar to present-day intramural sports. Girls' Athletic Associations remained the most common form of women's sports until the 1970s. (photo)
Ed Diddle, coach of Western Kentucky University’s men’s and women’s teams, defeats Kentucky’s women’s team, coached by law school student A.B. “Happy” Chandler, to win the state women’s championship.
Kentucky: Girls Basketball Team (photo)
Oklahoma: Roger Mills County Sweetwater School Basket Ball Team (photo)
Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Coach Blanche Voorhees guided an Owl basketball team to a perfect 12-0 record.
1924:
Rules: Eight-minute quarters with two minutes between quarters and a 10-minute half time. No coaching is allowed in the two minutes between quarters.
Women’s basketball is an exhibition sport at the Olympics.
International Women's Sports Federation is formed and hosts its version of the Olympics; women's basketball is included in the competition.
The AAU holds the first national basketball tournament for women with six teams.
University of Alaska Fairbanks (photo)
February 25: Marie Boyd of Lonaconing Central scores 156 points in a game against Ursuline Academy. The six-on-six game, played in Maryland, ended with a final score of 163-3.
Canada: Edmonton Grads win the European championship, and declared world champions after winning tournament in France.
Colorado: Arvada High School takes Girls' Basketball Suburban League Championship.
Connecticut: From 1924-1934 Aetna Insurance's women's team, the Crimson Tide, dominate New England regional Basketball scene.
Florida: Gulf High School Girl’s basketball team (photo)
Idaho: Jerome High School wins the State Championship (photo)
Iowa: The first Iowa High School statewide basketball tournament is held. 250 teams participate. By the 1950s this high school tournament would have attendance of 15,000+ fans.
Kentucky: University of Kentucky abolishes its intercollegiate women's team.
Massachusetts: Beverly High School Basketball Team (photo)
Theodora Roosevelt Boyd, an African-American born in South Carolina and raised in Massachusetts, plays for the Radcliffe women's basketball team, the predecessor of the Harvard Crimson women's team.
Texas: Playing Basketball Outdoors (photo)
Washington: Renton High School basketball team (photo)
1925:
Rules: Goals scored by one-hand overhand throw, two-hand underhand throw, the shot-put throw and the throw with back to the basket also count as one point.
37 states hold high school varsity basketball and/or state tournaments.
WDNAAF passes a resolution outlawing extramural competition, opposing gate receipts at women’s games, all travel for women’s games, and all publicity of women’s sports. The National Association of Secondary School Principals supports the resolution. They pressure high school sports associations to disband tournaments and are most successful in Eastern states and large city schools, less so in rural states.
January: University of Alaska Fairbanks traveled to Anchorage and defeated the Anchorage women by scores of 12 - 7 and 10 - 9.
California: Pasadena Athletic and Girls Club forms a basketball team.
Colorado: Craig High school (photo)
Florida: Gulf High School Girl’s basketball team (photo)
Chicago, IL: The Chicago Brownies women's basketball team (photo)
Iowa: the High School Athletic Association votes to substitute volleyball for basketball and end the state tournament system.
University of Missouri at Columbia Basketball Team (photo)
Troy, PA: Girls Basketball Team (photo)
South Dakota: Pierre Indian School Girls Basketball team. (photo)
1926:
April 8-9: AAU sponsors the first-ever National Women's Basketball Championship, using men's rules. Held in Los Angeles, 5,000 attend, and the Pasadena Athletic and Country Club wins.
WDNAAF convention in New York City focuses their ire on businesses, chambers of commerce, and church groups who look to improve their public image through successful basketball teams.
Chicago,IL: Eight members of the Taylor Trunks women's basketball team from C.A . Taylor Luggage Co. of Chicago, IL, known for making pieces for Houdini. (photo)
Chicago,IL: Brownies women's basketball player Lillian Gallagher (photo)
Iowa: Rural school administrators and the publishers of Des Moines’s daily newspaper, The Register, start their own organization called the Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union to oversee tournament play at the county, sectional, and state level. 159 schools fielded girl’s teams in the association. Sports editor Jack North and sports writer Bert McGrane run the tournaments for 16 years.
Kentucky: Audrey Whitlock Peterson's 's high school teams lose only five games between 1926-1929. In 1932 they win the state championship, the last state tournament for girls for almost 40 years.
University of Tennessee and University of Kentucky disband their women’s basketball teams. By the end of the '20’s only 12% of colleges sponsor women's varsity basketball teams.
Texas: Brownsville Junior High School Basketball Team (photo)
Washington: Renton High School championship trophy display (photo)
Washington: Maple Valley High School basketball team (photo)
1927:
Rules: Players must wear numbers on the back of their jerseys.
The WDNAAF successfully pressures officials in Wichita, KS, a "hotbed of industrial basketball," to cancel the AAU National Women’s Basketball Tournament (and again in 1928) prompting some business owners to disband teams.
Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Lab School, six graders playing basketball (photo)
Chicago, IL: An unidentified I. W. A. C. women's basketball player (photo)
Ada,OK: Bertha Teague starts girls basketball at Ada, Oklahoma, despite pressure from WDNAAF. In her 43 years of coaching (1927-69) at Byng High School, she compiles a 90 percent winning average with a win-loss record of 1,157-115. Her record includes eight state championships, and at one time, a 98-game winning streak.
1927-1928:
Sunoco Oilers (Dallas Sun Oilers) declared AAU national champions, though there’s no National Tournament.
1928:
Rules: Women's National Officials Ruling Committee, the first national women's officiating board is formed. They publish the pamphlet: "Techniques for the Woman Official as Referee or Umpire in Girls Basketball.
Arkansas: DeKalb Girl’s Basketball Team (photo)
Chicago,IL: Y. W. C. A. basketball player Lillian Rose holding a basketball (photo)
Maine: South Paris High School Basketball Team 1, 2 (photo)
Massachusetts: Tisbury High School Girls' Basketball Team (photo)
New York: Aetna's Crimson Tide plays at Madison Square Garden. In the prelude to a professional men's game between the Original Celtics and the Cleveland Rosenblums, they trounced the reigning New York City champions, a team from the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company, by a score of 42-11.
Pennsylvannia: The Elizabethtown College fields a women's basketball team. They didn't have many collegiate women's basketball teams nearby to play, so instead they faced teams named “Eighth Ward, Lancaster;”“Fifth Street Methodist Church;”“E-town Jasperettes;”and “St. John's Parish.” Washington: Bellevue Grade School Basketball Team (photo)
Washington: Bellevue High School Basketball Team (photo)
1929:
First AAU All-America team selected.
Alabama: Rison Girls Basketball Team. Played through 1934 - later banned because it was considered too dangerous. (photo)
Colorado: Girls' athletics came to an abrupt halt in 1928-1929, when Arvada High School's Superintendent Clifton B. Raybourn determined that "it was hazardous to their health" and stopped girls athletics. The Colorado Medical Association agreed with the health concern and the State of Colorado lost girls' competitive athletics.
Kansas: The national AAU tournament is revived in Wichita, adding a beauty contest to the event. Sunoco Oilers defeat the Dallas Golden Cyclones (sponsored by the Employers Casualty Insurance Company) to win the championship.
Michigan: Girls Basketball (photo)
North Carolina: East Carolina Teachers Training School Team (now East Carolina University) (photo)
North Dakota: Four girls teams in Tri-State Indian School basketball tournament. (photo)
