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rurallib

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7. While it was really limiting, until @ 1980 Iowa was about the only

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #5)

Thu Nov 21, 2024, 07:02 PM

Nov 21

state offering high school basketball for girls. The other was Oklahoma.

Iowa offered a pretty full range of sports for girls long before anyone else. I was proud of my state for that, even though the basketball was strange.

Added to that strangeness was that girls bball was only played in small cities and rural towns. Mostly towns below 10,000 as I recall - could have been smaller.

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A Lady I Knew... ProfessorGAC Nov 21 #5

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