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now i know you were impressed with the history of basketball and everything
involved in it being accomplished over time but one
thing that we wanted to do is give the women their separate history
and today that's all we're going to talk about
i'll talk about how women's basketball turned from
girls not even being able to dribble the ball to girls now going up with two
hands dunking the ball and hanging on the ramp
it's crazy how the evolution of the women's game
has really increased not only over the last 30 years
but over just the last 10. still trying to figure out whether or not
they should make the girls game high flying like the men's game
by lowering the rim or doing extra things to enhance the quality of
gameplay they tend to continue to mess with so we
will try to give you a nice history of it
and kind of give you an overview of what's going on with women's basketball
right now and who are the top players and what they are doing now we all know
basketball started back in 1891 but women's basketball started the year
after the game of basketball was invented
the history of women's basketball have instant popularity
now just like anything else there's going to be trial and error
so as we give you this timeline on what's going on with the game of women's
basketball you will see a little bit of failure but
only to rise as big as it is right now so as we tell you the history about this
game we could take a little bit different approach with
similar information but a lot of different rules and different guidelines
and changes way crazier than the man's game so
as you know dr james nate smith invented the game of basketball at the
massachusetts ymca school in 1891 his 13 original rules and
description of the game was published in january 1892
and read by cinda barrison abbott physical
education instructor at nearby smith college
she immediately created new rules for women to discourage
roughness and introduce basketball to the women
in smith college peach baskets and soccer balls were used
but she divides according to three equal sections
and requires players to stay in their section
stealing the ball is prohibited players may not hold the ball more than three
seconds and there is a three bounce limit on
dribbles the rules were very little strict
back then seeing how many times people dribbled the bar in both five sets of
the men and women's game today but let's get back to it benderson's
rules often modified spread rapidly across the
country via ymcas and colleges but many women
also use men's rules clara gregory bear
physical culture instructor at sophie newcombe
college in new orleans publishes the first women's basketball rules book
from that time the game of basketball according to women's was called
basquette it was dropped in her first revision in
1908 a demonstration game was played in march
13 1895 including an all-female audience of 560
at the southern athletic club the first publicly played
basketball game in the south bear's rules
was much different than barrison's divide the court according to the number
of players on the side 11 sections of 11 players seven sections
of seven on the side etc no dribbling or
guardian was allowed players given six seconds to aim and shoot the ball
no backboards were allowed players may only run only when the ball is in the
air and then a few steps within the area
goals are changed after each score so that offense and defense rolls were
reversed uniquely the one hand and push out was
required more than 40 years before the one-handed
shot became popular in the men's game a two-handed shot and a two-handed pass
is a foul these rules is too much bears rules in
her game were used widely across the south and
managed to scatter places elsewhere until 1922.
now that you have come adapt to these official rules
we're going to move ahead a little bit further to 1901 to 1902
noting the different sets of rules luther golick
and other leaders at an 1899 physical training meeting
in springfield have decided for the women at the meeting to
form a basketball committee to incorporate
all modifications into one set of rules with the help of the players
the committee decided on embarrassing original rules in which certain players
play off five to ten players on a side this then became published in 1901
by spaulding athletic library which then included bears rules and men's rules
bear then said this is getting confusing already and we haven't even really
started playing the game all over the world
or let alone just the country so in 1903 to 1904
time was shortened to 15 minutes instead of 20 minutes
in the first revised rules by the committee in 1905 to 1906
the national women's basketball committee becomes part of the american
physical education association known today
as american alliance for health physical education
recreation and dance known as a-a-h-p-e-r-d
which is a huge compliment already in a big step for the women's game in such a
short time dribbling was eliminated in 1910
only to return in the 1913-1914 season imagine the game of basketball
with no dribbling how much fun would it be to watch today
i was wondering sit and ponder on that for a moment in
1916 there was no coaching from the sidelines
during the game but only at halftime you could regroup
and coach your team with some type of strategy other than that you were just
watching it happen whether it was a win or a loss and i can
only imagine with the skill development back then
those are some tough games to watch so as time passed from 1917
to 1969 there was just so many different rules to the game
that we could probably spend 45 minutes telling you about
every detail but in 1969 to 1970 the use of five players in a full court
game in combination with the 30 second shot
clock is permitted for the first time and it continues for
a second season now that the game is getting popular and
now that the girls are feeling more like the mans in a basketball game
running up and down the floor being able to go both sides
we now fast forward to 1987 where the three-point line
is included in the game sitting at 19 foot nine inches from the center of the
basket this enhances a little bit more
excitement for the girls game as long as the scores will continuously
go higher now being able to average more points with
one shot that was just a quick overlook of
basically how difficult it was to not only modify the game for women
and not because they weren't able to do what the man were able to do
it was just about being more safe because the women didn't wear the same
things men wore the shoes they wore back then were not
even close to the shoes they are wearing today
also they were a bit skeptical of the skin being shown
and men coming in to watch them play just a lot of different factors when it
came to the development of the women's game so many things were
taken into consideration as far as safety it was then until june
of 1997. women's basketball evolved and it
finally had something to call their own the wmba
at the time consisting of eight teams the los angeles sparks
sacramento monarchs utah stars phoenix mercury houston comets charlotte
sting and new york liberty (cleveland rockers is not pictured) the love of the
older generation helped pave the way for the younger
generation of star players lighting up on the court now here are
some names you might have seen or are familiar with young and old
lisa leslie shamink holdsclaw cynthia cooper diana taurasi
maya moore and can't forget about the best dunker in the women's game ever
brittany griner all these talented women have taken their game all over the world
to continue to spread the love of the women's game
and with their amazing abilities opportunities and endorsements salaries
and more national exposure have increased making it a professional sport
for women that will be lucrative to their
livelihood where they can support their families
one quick fun fact there have been 21 dunks
that have been scored by seven different wnba players
seven of them were scored in all-star games while the remaining 14 took place
during the regular season or playoffs the first and second were scored by lisa
leslie of the los angeles sparks on july 30 2002
against the miami soul and july 9th 2005. pretty cool to think the game
started with no dribbling and now they are dunking it just like
the super athletes of the nba keep going strong girls and making the
game more exciting every day this is basketball you
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