“American women, the first quarter of the twentieth century, have won two rights: the right of exercising the suffrage and the right of participation in sport.” So said Glenna Collett, one of the greatest female golfers, in 1924.*
To kick-off Women’s History Month, consider some of the sports and physical activities that women and girls have enjoyed. Can you imagine playing basketball wearing dresses and mob caps like these Nebraska high school girls? (“
Sacramento basketball team“, Phelps County Historical Society collection, 1913)
See
other images available in Nebraska Memories of girls and women who have participated in sports and enjoyed the outdoors.
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*Glenna Collett, “Sports for Women”,
Woman’s Home Companion, 51 (September 1924), 21.
