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Girls' Athletics: No Sissy Program!, 1947-48

Girls_Athletics_No_Sissy_Program_194748.jpg

The image above was titled, "Girls' Athletics. No Sissy Program: Over 50 per Cent of women Take Part in 11 Extra-curricular Sports." Wooster's co-eds have long been chided by fellows about their quaint gym suits and sissy rules. The girls had an answer to this: the 11 extra-curricular activities offered the women far outnumber the three intramural sports for the men. Furthermore, 50 percent of the girls in school take part in one of these sports, a figure probably not touched by the males. It was the job of the Women's Athletic Association board to organize extra-curricular sports.
The photo was captioned: "In intramural basketball, the Imps triumphed in League I and the Miller Bombers were on top in League II. The play-off found the Bombers winning the championship 15-10. Among the 80 enthusiasts who played basketball this year were (above) Skippy Pierson, Rheen Hegner, Barb Hough, Jackie Nuttall, Jean Hodgson, and Paulie Swan." The photo depicts shot from above the hoop while six women look up at the basket. Three were in pinnies, and three are not. The ball may be in the hoop, as there appears to be a dark circle at the bottom of the net. The Administrative Head at this time is Kathleen Lowrie.

Collection Tags

TITLE

Girls' Athletics: No Sissy Program!, 1947-48

SUBJECT

Intramural Sports; Basketball; Sports for women; Athletics; College Sports for women; Basketball hoops; Women athletes; Basketball for women; Student activities

DATE

1947

CREATOR

Unknown

CONTRIBUTOR

The College of Wooster

PUBLISHER

The College of Wooster

TYPE

Still Image

FORMAT

JPEG

LANGUAGE

eng

RIGHTS

Women in Sport and Physical Education at The College of Wooster by Brenda Meese is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License
Based on a work at http://cdm15963.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p15963coll21
Permissions beyond the scope of this license may be available at https://www.wooster.edu/academics/libraries/collections/policies/

 

COVERAGE

1947-1948

RELATION

This item is part of the College of Wooster's more complete Women in Sport and Physical Education collection, which can be found here: http://cdm15963.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15963coll21/id/1591