Worthington High School Girls' Basketball Team

Basic details

Worthington High School Girls' Basketball Team is an image, with genre photograph.

Its dimensions are 3.25 in. x 3.25 in..

It was created sometime in 1912.

Worthington Historical Society is the contributor.

You can find the original at Worthington Historical Society.

Background

Worthington High School girls are pictured in front of a basketball hoop with a female faculty member. They are dressed in gym bloomers. The girl in the center holds a basketball labeled WHS '12. Basketball was invented by a Canadian, James Naismith, in Massachusetts in 1891. Soccer balls were used to play the game until larger balls were introduced in 1894. Peach baskets were originally used for hoops, along with backboards such as the one pictured here.

Basketball was extremely popular, especially for women. Collegiate women's teams played as early as 1896, and the sport debuted in the 1936 Olympics.

Subjects

It covers the topics students, school sports and basketball.

It covers the city Worthington.

Record details

This file was reformatted digital in the format video/jpeg.

The Worthington Memory identification code is whs0577.

The Worthington Historical Society identification code is 82-G-327c.

This metadata record was human prepared by Worthington Libraries on April 18, 2002. It was last updated November 4, 2025.

Copyright

In Copyright

Worthington High School Girls' Basketball Team from the collections of the Worthington Historical Society (WHS) may be used for educational purposes as long as it is not altered in any way and proper credit is given: "Courtesy of the Worthington Historical Society, Worthington, OH." Prior written permission of the WHS is required for any other use of Worthington High School Girls' Basketball Team. Contact WHS at info@worthingtonhistory.org to request permission.