Featuring over 200 articles and 125 illustrations, "The Lost Century of Women's Basketball" is a time capsule of media reports from the birth of women's basketball in the 19th century.
High school, college, and athletic club teams played in leagues and competed in tournaments long before the modern era of women's sports. After a wild first decade, this brief flourishing of women's basketball was tamped down by social pressure and the wide-open full-court game was tamed by a partitioned court and restrictive rules that remained intact until the passage of Title IX in 1972.
This volume...
Featuring over 200 articles and 125 illustrations, "The Lost Century of Women's Basketball" is a time capsule of media reports from the birth of women...
