Transcript Women in basketball

HONR101: History and Culture of
Basketball
November 2, 2011
 December
29, 1891: Dr. James Naismith
organizes the first basketball game
 1892: The first women's basketball team was
organized by Senda Berenson at Smith
College, adapting Naismith's rules to
emphasize cooperation, with three zones and
six players on each team
 March 21, 1893: The first women's college
basketball game played at Smith College; no
men were admitted to the game
 1893:
Women's basketball began at Iowa State
College, Carleton College, Mount Holyoke College,
and Sophie Newcomb College (Tulane) in New
Orleans
 Each year, more schools added women's basketball
to their sports offerings for girls
 1894: Senda Berenson published an article on
women's basketball and its benefits in the Physical
Education journal
 In 1896, bloomers introduced as a playing costume
at Sophie Newbomb College, New Orleans

Next slide is from 1903 edition of Basket Ball for Women, Sendra
Berenson is holding the ball
 Stanford
and the University of California at
Berkeley played the first women's
intercollegiate game; Stanford won, 2-1, and
men were excluded, with women guarding
the windows and doors to exclude men
 The first known women's basketball game
between two high schools was played in the
Chicago area, with Chicago Austin High
School against Oak Park High School
 In
1895, Baer published rules for women's
"Basquette"
 In 1901, Spalding issued women's basketball
rules, edited by Senda Berenson, establishing
3 zones with 5-10 players per team; some
teams used men's rules, some used Baer's
rules, and some used Spalding's/Berenson's
rules
 In 1938, three zones reduced to two in
women's competition
 In
the early days,
there were 9 players
on a team
 The court was divided
into 3 zones, with 3
players from each
team per zone
 The game was
designed to be
“ladylike” and “rough
play” was banned
 In
1908, AAU (Amateur Athletic Union) took the
position that women or girls should not play
basketball in public
 In 1914, the American Olympic Committee
declared its opposition to the participation of
women in the Olympics competition
 In 1923, Women's Division of the National Amateur
Athletic Federation (WDNAAF) held its first
conference; over the next few years, it will take
on women's extramural basketball and other
sports as too competitive, working to get high
schools, industrial leagues, and even churches to
ban tournaments
 In
1904, a Native American team played
women's basketball at the St. Louis World's
Fair, as an exhibition
 In the 1920s, industrial leagues -- teams
sponsored by companies for their workers -were established in many parts of the
country
 In 1921, Jeux Olympiques Féminines held in
Monaco, an all-women's sports competition
for sports excluded from the Olympics;
sports included basketball, track and field;
Britain's team won the basketball event
 In
1924, Olympics included women's
basketball -- as an exhibition event
 International Women's Sports Federation
founded, hosted a women's event paralleling
the Olympics, including basketball
 In 1926, AAU held first national tournament
for women's basketball, with six teams
participating
 In 1927, AAU National Women's Basketball
Tournament cancelled under pressure from
the WDNAAF
 In
1929, AAU selected the first AAU All-America
team
 AAU re-started national championship
tournament; Sunoco Oilers won, defeating the
Golden Cyclones; a beauty contest was part of
the event
 1930 AAU national championship included 28
teams; Sunoco Oilers won, defeating the Golden
Cyclones
 In the 1930s, WDNAAF continued to pressure
states to ban women's basketball tournaments,
with success in many states
 In
1953, international competition in
women's basketball was reorganized
 In 1955, first Pan-American Games included
women's basketball; USA won the gold medal
 In 1969, Intercollegiate Athletics for Women
(ICAW) held an invitational basketball
tournament, the first national tournament
not including AAU teams; West Chester State
won the championship
 Women's basketball was included in the
Paralympics
 In
1970, five player full court game adopted for
women's basketball
 In 1972, Title IX enacted, requiring federallyfunded schools to fund women's sports
equitably, including teams, scholarships,
recruitment, and media coverage
 Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for
Women (AIAW) held first national
intercollegiate championship in basketball;
Immaculata defeated West Chester
 AAU established national basketball
tournaments for girls younger than college age
 In
1973, college scholarships offered to
female athletes for the first time
 Amateur Basketball Association of the United
States (ABAUSA) established, replacing AAU
 In 1974, the US Olympic Committee
recognized the ABAUSA
 Billie Jean King founded the Women's Sports
Foundation, to promote sports and physical
activity among girls
 In 1976, women's basketball became an
Olympic sport; the Soviet team won the gold,
USA won the silver
 In
1978, the Wade Trophy established to honor a
top collegiate player; first awarded to Carol
Blazejowski
 Bill Byrne founded the 8-team Women's Basketball
League (WBL)
 In 1979, WBL expanded to 14 teams
 In 1980, Ladies Professional Basketball Association
founded with six teams; played for less than a
month before failing
 The first USA Basketball Female Athlete of the
Year Award went to Carol Blazejowski
 Olympics held but many nations boycotted, led by
the USA
 The
WBL played its last season
 The Women's Basketball Coaches Association
(WBCA) begins
 The NCAA announced women's basketball
tournaments; AIAW filed an antitrust suit in
opposition
 The final AIAW tournament held; AIAW
dropped the lawsuit against the NCAA and
disbanded
 The first NCAA women's basketball Final Four
championship held
 The
Olympics women's
basketball event won by USA
team, with the USSR and some
other nations boycotting
 Women's American Basketball
Association (WABA) formed,
with six teams; it was, like
most of the women's
professional basketball
leagues, short-lived
 Lynette Woodard began
playing with the Harlem
Globetrotters, the first woman
to play with that team
 In
1985, Senda Berenson Abbott, L. Margaret
Wade, and Bertha F. Teague were inducted
into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of
Fame, the first women to be so honored
 In 1986, National Women's Basketball
Association (NWBA) founded; folded the
same season
 In 1987, Naismith Hall of Fame initiated
Female High School Player of the Year award
 In 1988, Olympics women's basketball event
won by USA team in Seoul, South Korea
 In
1991, WBL disbanded
 Liberty Basketball Association (LBA) founded,
and lasted one game, broadcast on ESPN
 1992 Howard University women's basketball
coach became the first woman to win monetary
damages under Title IX, for discrimination
 In 1993, Women's Basketball Association (WBA)
founded
 In 1995, Women's Basketball Association (WBA)
failed
 American Basketball League (ABL) founded with
ten teams
 In
1996, the NBA established the WNBA with
eight teams; Sheryl Swoopes was the first
player signed by the WNBA
 In 1997, first WNBA game played
 WNBA added two more teams
 In 1998, the ABL failed
 WNBA expanded by two teams
 In 1999 Women's Basketball Hall of Fame
opened with 25 inductees
 Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyy-UXHStiY
 The
2011 WNBA consisted of 12 teams playing
34 games throughout the summer
 The Minnesota Lynx were the 2011 champions
 The WNBA offseason is at the same time as
the NBA season, and vice versa
 1984
– first college dunk:
http://sports.espn.go.com/ncw/columns/sto
ry?columnist=garber_greg&id=4340458
 2002 - first WNBA dunk:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjMFRfX4MY&feature=related
 High school girl dunking:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tuDfRzY2
Vqw&feature=grec_index
 Top WNBA 2008 plays:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YrbWTL
9hQw&feature=rel
 LSSU women:
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few sources:
http://www.womensbasketballmuseum.com/
http://www.wnba.com/about_us/jenkins_feature.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women's_basketball
http://www.hockeyarenas.com/womenbasketballinthe
us.htm
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/basketball/a/time
line.htm
http://womensbasketballonline.com/history/wbbtimeli
ne.html
http://www.wbhof.com/timeline.html