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Basketball Practice Session with Dr. Sexton, 1953-54

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Before the critical eyes of Dr. Sexton, J. Eaton, N. Orahood and J. Brooks on the floor. M. Buckstaff and J. Coulson demonstrated basketball technique in one of the five required practice sessions. Women were required to participate in five practice sessions in order to participate on an intramural team for their social club, dorm, or group. Dr. Maria Sexton served as Chair of the Basketball Rules Committee in the 1960's when women eventually go from six players modified basketball to the five-player unmodified game. Doc was a national official in basketball and helped train women to officiate the sport. The women were wearing high waist shorts with blouses. Dr. Sexton was wearing a long skirt with a blouse. The administrative head at the time was Maria Sexton.

Collection Tags

TITLE

Basketball Practice Session with Dr. Sexton, 1953-54

SUBJECT

Basketball; basketball coaches; gymnasiums; physical education for women; physical education teachers; intramural sports; recreation

DATE

1954

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

1953-1954

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/1109