Worthington High School Girls' Basketball Team

Basic details

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

Its dimensions are 7 in. x 9 in..

It was created around 1925-1926.

Worthington Historical Society is the contributor.

You can find the original at Worthington Historical Society.

Background

This is the Worthington High School girls' basketball team for the 1925-1926 school year and their coach. The girls are outfitted in traditional uniforms with bloomers, knee socks and hightop shoes. Seated from left to right, first row, Grace Griswold, Rhea Beard, Ila Dean (captain), Mildred Keys (manager), Bertha Dean, Millicent Williams; second row, Ruth Harding, Edith Lewis, Margaret Claar, James Stolzenbach (coach), Ruth Potter, Ruth Wellman.

Basketball was invented by James Naismith, a Canadian, in 1891in Massachusetts. Soccer balls were used to play the game until larger balls were introduced in 1894. The game was immediately popular, especially for women, and was widely adopted as a scholastic sport. It debuted as an Olympic sport in 1936.

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 whs0342.

The Worthington Historical Society identification code is 94-G-128.

This metadata record was human prepared by Worthington Libraries on March 6, 2002. It was last updated November 10, 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.