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PostPosted: 03/13/05 9:41 am    ::: Now THIS is old school: Reply Reply with quote

...an old film I stumbled across this morning, college women's hoops in Missouri circa 1904:

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/S?ammem/papr:@FILREQ(@field(TITLE+@od1(Basket+ball,+Missouri+Valley+College++))+@FIELD(COLLID+workleis))



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PostPosted: 03/13/05 10:22 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

wow, stever. what a find!

this was before dribbling?



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PostPosted: 03/13/05 10:41 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

sebibb wrote:
wow, stever. what a find!

this was before dribbling?


They're playing on dirt. Asphalt existed then but wasn't used for creating basketball courts until much later. Dribbling on a dirt court is asking for bad bounces and turnovers.

Note that they're playing the old half court game, several of the players never cross mid-court.



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PostPosted: 03/13/05 11:02 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

yes, i got that pilight - it was a joke. actually, i think they're playing on grass, or what was. pretty intense defense by the team closest to the camera! i'm sure some where positively aghast at their behavior.



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PostPosted: 03/13/05 11:44 am    ::: Reply Reply with quote

I was about to say that it might be grass. It's hard to tell from the video. Either way you don't want to dribble on it.



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PostPosted: 03/13/05 12:05 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Plexiglass backboards are a hundred years old?


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PostPosted: 03/13/05 12:46 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Slovydal wrote:
Plexiglass backboards are a hundred years old?


That was my thought!!


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PostPosted: 03/13/05 1:00 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

If you really care, plexiglass was invented in 1930 in Canada by a chemist named William Chalmers.



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PostPosted: 03/13/05 1:04 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

So those are real glass backboards?


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PostPosted: 03/13/05 1:24 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

i don't think they had any backboard action in that video. the frame looked like just a guide - nothing but net.



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PostPosted: 03/13/05 1:49 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Ahhh! didn't even think of that! saw the frame and through to the background and figured it was a glass backboard.


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PostPosted: 03/13/05 5:33 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

LOL!
It seemed like it was just a frame. I knew plexiglass wasn't around yet but I was thinking it was invented even later that the thirties (thanks pilight!)


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PostPosted: 03/13/05 5:50 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Slovydal wrote:
LOL!
It seemed like it was just a frame. I knew plexiglass wasn't around yet but I was thinking it was invented even later that the thirties (thanks pilight!)


It wasn't widely used until after WWII.



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PostPosted: 03/13/05 5:56 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

I was thinking late forties. I guessed about right.

Dang, pilight, how do you keep track of all this stuff?


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PostPosted: 03/13/05 6:24 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

Slovydal wrote:
I was thinking late forties. I guessed about right.

Dang, pilight, how do you keep track of all this stuff?


I have a really big head. Laughing



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PostPosted: 03/13/05 9:20 pm    ::: Reply Reply with quote

That's a terrific find.

Those must be glass backboards, not just frames. The made shot at the far basket was clearly a bank shot. The ball is then brought back for a center jump after the made shot. There is also an earlier missed shot at the far basket that looks like it caroms off the glass.


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