Iowa girls “six on six” basketball. Dribble dribble hop pass! (You only got 2 dribbles, and if you crossed half-court a sniper would take you out) You had your offensive players and your defensive players. 3 on 3. What I find fascinating were the uniforms. As you can see from the pictures it would be heaven to have a color photo of every school’s uniform from back then. The colors, the styles! Simply glorious. I think I saw the great Denise Long play at Vets. ‘She wore the skirt‘. That’s just euphemism, while many of the girls teams did wear skirts, Union Whitten didn’t. The other great thing from back then was the “ettes”. If your school mascot was a Tiger, the girls became the Tigerettes. Rams became the Ramettes. Trojans? Trojanettes! A glorious time. I almost forgot, “Lady Hawks“, Lady Tigers”.

And a short lived women’s pro team I remembered when I saw the photo: The Cornets! (Molly Bolin) WBL preceded the WNBA evidently.

They did have some unusual rules though. One was in the event of  a loose ball, all the players were required to fall down. These photos do provide evidence of another rumored phenomenon. Legend had it a few times contact with the floor was broken and they achieved some sort of vertical leap.