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Show Even in 1897, Men Utah state University I. YMCA. Rowland Hall and later the Mutual Improvement League Maud May Babcock, the woman response ble for bringing instructed athletics for women to the U. of U., and hence the state, also initiated Utah basketball. Miss Babcock came to the U. of U. in 1892 to teach a year of drama on an invitation by Susa Gates Young, a former student of Mis Babcocks at Harvard University, Cambridge. Hoop' Was a Fruit Basket summer sessions (prior Harvard's During to her move to Utah). Miss Babcock taught womens physical education, including the newest sport initiated by James A Naismith in 1891 in Springfield, Mass Naismith found that tossing a soccer ball into a fruit basket nailed to a wall made great sport So when Miss Babcock w as appointed head of the athletic department on her arrival to By Nancy Hobbs IN Editor lo thi' gentle coed, basketball Is destined lu be all that football is to the college youth and class honors and glories will, in a measure, depend upon the triumphs with the leathern sphere Football, alas! is not a game for athletic maidens, hut the have found a substitute in basketball, which may be considered football robbed of its terrors but not of its excitement. Looking back on this excerpt from an 1897 Sail Lake Tribune, readers see that the "mild rival of football'' was hardly the sport it ranks today Then basketball was strictly a womens sport, "scoffed at by men of the time Although they refused to play, male audiences filled gymnasiums of the womens first public basketball contests between the University of Utah the Agricultural College (now Basketball of Ct "i ahcialtCakraribun: courts midluie, as do lugh school teams A econd rule is in force in college basket ball though and not in high school v No outage to Players teams have eqi hut that run may vary to amo -- Di-ad- More incentive to Compete Friday Morning, January half-bush- Section If 12, 1 The change is no disadvantage to women, the coach insists "Its not a big switch to have to make We usually shoot the ball within it) seconds anyway, and adaptation to the baekeourt rule comes easily," With a recent proposal by the U.S. Department of Health. Education and Welfare, womens basketball may, ironically, begin receiving funds equal to male teams in amounts spent on recruiting, scholarships, publicity and the sport itself there may be exceptions in Although basketball funding on an equal basis per capita i Ms. Mayne points out that mens teams still do make larger gate profits), women - basketball will continue to broaden 97U !l Page J ill scope the University of Utah, she taught basketball Her one year in Utah became more than 50 and she remained athletic head through 1910 The position was then divided into two jobs and Miss Babcock was maintained as the womens athletic "directress In 1919 she w as also apixmited to direct the institutions drama and speech department so gave up her athletic position after two more years (The Babcock Theater d to the in honor of Maud May's contributions state's theatrical arts.) No Modesty. Too Masculine its first stages women's basketball w upon by some of the older generation for lack of modesty and the demonstrated masculinity of women players. In When local intercollegiate play was gested, the idea was not easily affirmed u. Miss Babcock and the first two captains of he U of U. womens basketball team, Lucille Jewett and Jean Hyde, labored from Oc tober. 189(1. to January, 1897. to secure consent of the Athletic Association for intercollegiate play and equipment Nancy Miss Hewett was quoted in The Salt Lake Tribune as saying. We knew all the boys of the executive committee of the Athletic Association and we simply buttonholed every one of them and got their permission to play Millets Olympus is uniform more practical. Wore Bloomers, Sailor B'.ouse modest costumes of the pluyei consisted of extra full bloomer s and . blouse with sailor collar The "Perhaps, though, it is the game ltselt that cal the quick vigorous movement forth opposition to public exhibition, on ih grounds of being incompatible with the ideal of gentle maidenly demeanor. The Tritium writer reported "The objection cannot ui unless the proper ideals are the pall nervous girls who are either bookworm-nothing- . Ms Linda Mayne, coach of Olympus High Schools varsity womens basketball team probably couldnt agree more Women are certainly capable of playm good ball It's very good for them too. It to not be cool if you were' a girl and participating in sports, but now it s OK to b. u-- ed female athlete." she said Sees Advances in Women's Sports can really see improvement in girl ports in Utah. 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