I have been wanting to share this for awhile but kept forgetting to blog it :)
My great aunt, age 84, played basketball in her youth. She began to tell me how it was played and I was totally surprised!! First of all, I cannot imagine her playing basketball but second of all...I guess I just thought that basketball always had the same rules..NOT TRUE!
Back in her day, (hehe) it was called six-on-six basketball. the court was divided up by in four section, there were three forward and three gaurds and only the forwards were allowed to shoot, forwards stay in the front court and guards stayed in back court, and dribbling was very limited!! They had to pass the ball from one quarter of court to the next.
~I said: "Why?"
~And she simply responded: "Honey, it was not proper for girls to run in front of boys!"
I could say no more! But I chuckled inside when I thought of how the world has changed in less than a century. I guess it really isn't funny and life back then was so much simpler but imagine if our worry was girls running in front of the boys these days....
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