1. Unequal Playing Time
Rachel Shafer

2. Ideal College Town
Progressive
Liberal Minded
Socially Blended

3. Women in the student yearbooks

4. Women’s athletics in 1921

5. 1921 Yearbook Staff
Nine female editors
Seven male editors

6. Girls’ athletic association
Formed in October 1922
Purpose: provide fun recreational athletic events among women at Marshall

7. 1924
The Girls’ Athletic Association participated in the Young Women’s Christian Association annual basketball tournament

8. 1924 yearbook staff
Six women
Seven men

9. 1925 Yearbook Staff
Seven women
Eleven Men

10. Women’s Athletics Nationally
1922: Women’s World Games were held in Paris
1924: Women were accepted to the Olympics
1925: Women’s basketball debuted in high schools
1926: the first National Women’s Basketball Championship

11. Changes in 1926 Now part of the National Girls’ Athletic Association
Offer new classes and social opportunities for women

12. Yearbook Staff 1926
Two women
Five men

13. 1927 and 1928 No women documented as yearbook editors
No recognition for the Girls’ Athletic Association

14. Women of 1928
Only focus is on women’s beauty instead of athletics

15. Women of 1929
Beauty
Athletics

17. Physical Education club
Created in 1931 as a replacement to the Girls’ Athletic Association

18. Back 1908
Recreational women’s basketball and tennis

19. Yearbook editors of 1908
Five women
Seven men

20. “sporting events are a central component of student life at American colleges and universities” -Blake Gumprecht

21. First wave of feminism 1800’s to 1920’s Higher education
Visibility in government and law
Suffrage

22. “because of second wavers’ activism, a girl can play sports on school and community teams” –Rory Dickers

23. Ideal College Town
Progressive
Liberal Minded
Socially Blended