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Girls' Basketball Team, Early, Iowa, 1921

Girls' Basketball Team, Early, Iowa, 1921

Early Consolidated School girls' basketball team. Early, Iowa. 1921.

Marie Turner Harvey Collection. Used with permission of the State Historical Society of Iowa, Des Moines.

©2005 State Historical Society of Iowa. All Rights Reserved.

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Imagine playing full contact football with no helmet, no pads and few rules. You are imagining football in the 1800s.

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Investigation Tip:
How have the issues in the history of football reflected the issues in the history of Iowa?

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  • Collection of photographs, letters and memorials to Jack Trice, the first African-American student athlete at Iowa State
  • Collection of photographs, letters and memorials to Jack Trice, the first African-American student athlete at Iowa State
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  • Biography of football player, Nile Kinnick of the University of Iowa, who won the 1939 Heisman trophy
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