[yvonne]

Bob asked a question about the score to the first intercollegiate women's basketball game, and I was able to get some background from author of The Stronger Women Get, The More Men Love Football (MBN, Harcourt Brace, 1994) and former Stanford hoopster, Mariah Burton Nelson.

"The first college women's game featured Naismith's original nine-player, one-point-per-basket format. Because public female sweat was deemed indelicate, men were not allowed to watch, but five hundred boisterous women packed the stands of San Francisco's Armory Hall. "The fighting was hard and the playing was good," the San Francisco Examiner reported. "The girls jumped, scrambled, and fell over one another on the floor, but they didn't mind it. They were up quick as a flash, chasing after the ball again."

"Stanford won, 2-1.

Here's a photo of the team:


http://imageserver.stanford.edu/ImageSer...4905356868

[yvonne]

Bob asked a question about the score to the first intercollegiate women's basketball game, and I was able to get some background from author of The Stronger Women Get, The More Men Love Football (MBN, Harcourt Brace, 1994) and former Stanford hoopster, Mariah Burton Nelson.

"The first college women's game featured Naismith's original nine-player, one-point-per-basket format. Because public female sweat was deemed indelicate, men were not allowed to watch, but five hundred boisterous women packed the stands of San Francisco's Armory Hall. "The fighting was hard and the playing was good," the San Francisco Examiner reported. "The girls jumped, scrambled, and fell over one another on the floor, but they didn't mind it. They were up quick as a flash, chasing after the ball again."

"Stanford won, 2-1.

Here's a photo of the team:


http://imageserver.stanford.edu/ImageSer...4905356868