Some of world’s top players were in the Penn State League, including clubs from Nanticoke and Scranton. The ball – an inflated rubber bladder encased in leather, with stitches over the valve – was an ...

In 1918, James Thaddeus Cathey and his wife, Ida Lou Eva Wright, left their productive acreage along Pole Creek in Candler to rent land from Eva’s brother, Zeb, so that their youngest children could ...

GRANDMOTHERS. KAREN: THESE WOMEN ARE ALL OVER THE AGE OF 50 AND THEY PLAY IN A LEAGUE CALLED GRANNY BASKETBALL. >> WE PLAY THE ORIGINAL RULES FOR WOMEN’S BASKETBALL FROM THE 1920’S, THUS THE OUTFITS.

Over 50 years before the formation of the Big East and 30 years before McDonough Gymnasium, Georgetown athletics already boasted an international reputation. The 1920s were full of successful ...

Granny basketball is coming to Visalia. An exhibition game between members of two teams from the Granny Basketball League, the Oakdale Broncos and the California Poppies of Sonora, will be played at ...

When the Aetna girls basketball team disbanded before the 1934-35 season, it was big news. This is a team that had won 111 of 133 games since 1924. A team that played at Madison Square Garden in 1928, ...

1919-20 PHS Girls Basketball team. Listed as being part of the 1920 basketball team were: Sarah Penn, Bertha Butler, Geneva Gainer, Francis Fischer and Virginia Broughton. (Photo from The Parkersburg ...

ANAHEIM, CA (Bleacher Report) - At the Anaheim Convention Center, UCLA Men's Basketball-who had been blessed with legacy of success for so many years-passed away at the ripe old age of 89. The last ...

Four years ago basketball was dropped from the number of minor sports at Harvard, principally because the facilities in the Hemenway Gymnasium were so inadequate. Since 1915 basketball in other ...

In the late 1920s, basketball was still a young sport, played in gymnasiums with wooden backboards and no shot clock. Amid the methodical pace of the game, George Gregory Jr., CC ’31, stood out—not ...

CINCINNATI, Ohio – Talk about strangers in the night. As Ohio State took the floor Wednesday to play a basketball game at Cincinnati, did anybody click a picture for posterity, considering how long it ...

PROVIDENCE — I’m siding with Providence men’s basketball. I don’t think Rhode Island deserves a win against the Friars. But not so fast Providence fans, I’m also riding with the Rams. Neither of my ...