Women's Basketball League formed in New Orleans in 1894

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Thursday, August 25, 2011 at 4:21pm EDT

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Media reports about the pioneers of American women’s sports & fitness originally published over 100 years ago....more

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November 14, 1894, Wednesday - The Newark Daily Advocate

A BASKET BALL LEAGUE

There is a movement on foot to form a basket ball league among the swell girls of New Orleans.

Basket ball has of late, under the heading of athletic games, become very popular in all the northern colleges, and in Wellesley college one of our New Orleans girls is the “captain of the team.”

It does not differ materially from baseball, only that it is more refined and lacks the rougher elements of the latter game, although it requires much the same requisites, except that of weight.

It is hinted that it will be “quite the thing” this winter to belong to a basket ball team. The young ladies at the Southern Athletic club, it is rumored, will organize immediately.

Excerpted from “The First Decade of Women’s Basketball: A Time Capsule of Media Reports from the Dawn of the Game”

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Women's Basketball League formed in New Orleans in 1894

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