Women's basketball's early days
Early basketball all black team
Another all black team
Marie Boyd
Marie Boyd again!
The Redheads uniform.
The Redheads
Cheryl Miller at the Olympics
Lusia Harris (I'm sorry I kept mispronouncing your name 'Luisa' I feel sheepish. Baa.
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Do you want to dig a little deeper? Pics from old timey girls championships.
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The following story was copied from a very eloquent blog post, listed in the research credits.
The following story was copied from a very eloquent blog post, listed in the research credits.
This is the 156 point story The night was February 26, 1924 and Ursuline Academy of Cumberland, Maryland, came to town. The Central High girls were upset that a few nights before a local rival named Sarah Hawes had done what at the time was thought to be impossible; she scored 95 points in a game. Hawes played for Central High's arch rival Beall, also located in Lonaconing.
The local press swooned over Haws and has Boyd would later put it in an interview in 1984, it "Miffed the Central High school girls and they decided that they would make Boyd the undisputed scoring queen of western Maryland". Central High's coach Henry "Doc" Hodgson came up with the plan to get Boyd the ball. Hodson knew his team had the size advantage as they had several girls over 5'6", including the 5'7" Boyd, were as Ursuline Academy sorely liked size.
Until the 1930's girls high school basketball consisted of 3 forwards and 2 guards, and the guards would not shoot. The rule was always seen as stupid to both players and fans a like and often lead to confusion for fans who were trying to learn the rules of the new game in general. This rule set up though was key to Central High's plan.
The Black Knights would use the center jump rule to their advantage by having their 6'3" forward jump against the Ursuline's 5'8" center. The center would tip the ball to another player who would throw it to towards the hoop and an awaiting Marie Boyd. This worked 77 times in a row.
Ursuline simply had no answer to Boyd. They tried fouling other players when they got the ball, but that did not work either. They apparently did not attempt to foul Boyd as she only attempted two free throws in the game.
The Black Knight slaughtered the Raiders to a score of 163-3 and Boyd had 156 of those points. The Black Knight's did not know it at the time, but they set three record's that day. Most points in a game for a team (163), most point's in a game by a player (156 for Boyd) and largest margin of victory in an official basketball game. All three records would eventually be broken, but Boyd's 156 points remains the most points ever scored in a basketball game by a female player and it is actually the second most scored ever, only falling to John Barber's 188 points scored nearly 30 years later.
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