Women in basketball
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Basketball is one of the sports developed as much by women as men, perhaps because basketball evolved so quickly and during a period in history when women were not restricted to domestic activity. While women have always participated in sports, they have had few opportunities in history to play, practice and excel until title IX came into effect.
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[edit] History of Women in Basketball
Women began playing basketball in 1892, at Smith College (a women's college), when Senda Berenson, a physical education teacher, modified the rules to a game James Naismith made up and taught it in her classes. Basketball's early adherents were affiliated with YMCAs and colleges throughout the United States, and the game quickly spread through the country. By 1896, it was well established at several other women's colleges. Berenson's freshmen played the sophomore class in the first women's collegiate basketball game, March 21, 1893. The doors were locked at the Smith College gym and men were not allowed to watch Berenson's students compete. University of California and Miss Head's School, had played the first women's extramural game in 1892. Also in 1893, Mount Holyoke and Sophie Newcomb College (coached by Clara Gregory Baer, the inventor of Newcomb ball, women began playing basketball. By 1895, the game had spread to colleges across the country, including Wellesley, Vassar and Bryn Mawr. The first intercollegiate women's game was on April 4, 1896. Stanford women played Berkeley, 9-on-9, ending in a 2-1 Stanford victory. Clara Gregory Baer published the first book of rules for women's basketball in 1895 she first called the game 'Basquette', a name later dropped in her first revision of rules called Newcomb College Basketball Rules published in 1908.[1]the wems in b-ball need to check them selfs so they can play vollyball
