Just for Fun : The Story of AAU Women's Basketball /

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"In the decades before the 1972 passage of Title IX, premier women's basketball was played by the teams in the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) ... [this book] is the history of these all-but-forgotten players and coaches who, while playing for an exuberant love of the game, laid the groundwor...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ikard, Robert W.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Fayetteville : University of Arkansas Press, 2005.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Amateur Athletic Union of the United States.
Amateur Athletic Union of the United States > History.
Basketball for women.
Basket-ball feminin > États-Unis > Histoire.
Basketball for women > United States > History.
United States.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • A forgotten era
  • Basketball in the oil patch
  • Beer distributors, business schools, and hosiery girls
  • Expansion and consolidation
  • NBC, "the greatest"
  • Looking back and ahead
  • Appendix A. AAU women's basketball All-Americans
  • Appendix B. Top-four finishers in AAU tournaments
  • Appendix C. The mythical all-star teams.

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