So-So review - A fictionalized account of a small town team in the last year of six-on-six basketball. It was more about the reluctant big city sports writer sent to cover it. Okay for a fan, but falls short.
New Providence - the Movie
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She just fractured her left elbow and right wrist in a game against Boone this week. I saw a video of it. I’m surprised she didn’t have a neck injury to. It looked pretty bad when she landed.
Kind of ironic that Title IX actually led to the demise of six-girl basketball. Once other state's got involved in high school girls sports, to compete for scholarships, Iowa had to transition to five-girl. My two sisters played, in fact the oldest of the two was on our high school's first girl's team in the 70's. My Dad was always supportive of my brother and I when we played, but he was an absolute fanatic when my sisters played.
Nothing packed Vet's like the 6 on 6 tourney back in the day. (At least the way I remember it)
What made girls basketball so popular in Iowa was that back then, only the small schools played girls basketball. I grew up in a community of about 5,000 and we did not play girls basketball but the surrounding communities with populations of a thousand or less did! The DesMoines, Ames, etc. schools did not play girls basketball.
The state tournament gave these small communities their chance to shine on the big stage!
The state tournament gave these small communities their chance to shine on the big stage!
Mrs. Velo got caught up in the transition between 6 player and 5 player basketball. There were a lot of guards who ended up getting cut because they had never had a real chance to develop offensive skills.
My high school in a town of 5000 had ZERO women's sports when I was in HS in the 1960's yet my mother, from a nearby town of 1200, played six-on-six in 1938. No sports what so ever for my sister but soccer/track/basketball etc for her girls in the 1990's. This is 1000x better for the kids.
I always count myself fortunate that I was able to play two years of 6-on-6 and two years of 5-on-5, just to experience both aspects of the game. We were absolutely ... terrible... but I loved the game!
I must be about the same vintage as you - in NJ early sixties sports were thought to be either unladylike or too dangerous for girls. Oddly, the first sport for them
was field hockey.
