THERE WERE THE RED HEADS
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Got red hair? Are you a girl? Can you shoot and score a free throw from your knees? How about being able to take a basketball between the ankles, jump and kick your legs back sending the ball into the air, over your head, and through the hoop? If the answer is yes, then you could have been part of the FIRST women's professional basketball team that reigned from 1936-1986.
Who are these women basketball players? The All American Red Heads barnstormed America filling gyms with wonderment and amazement. Their basketball prowess would make the men of the NBA proud. They spent nights in nearly every corner of America and beyond. They entertained the masses for 50 years, and now showcased in the Women's Basketball Hall of Fame in Knoxville, Tennessee.
History of Women's Basketball
Women's basketball goes back to the beginning when it was invented by James Naismith in 1891. Only one year later Sendra Berenson, a woman's gymnastics teacher at Smith College adapted the rules, and taught her students the game. Naturally an out cry arose. Women weren't supposed to throw balls. Women weren't even legal citizens yet! Women were considered the weaker sex, and needed protection, not exercise. After all 코인카지노 women needed to have children, and playing sports was deemed harmful to the woman's physiology. Besides that women were brought up to become a wife, and take care of the husband.
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