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I grew up in Iowa and watched 6 on 6. I remember that after a made basket the Lead would grab the ball and he would make a long bounce pass to the trail. The trail would then bounce the ball to a girl who was waiting in her teams half of the center circle from where they would start the play at the other end of the court. The Trail would then run down and be the new Lead and the old Lead would run up to become the new trial.

Iowa had a girl named Denise Long in the late sixties who actually was drafted by the San Francisco Warriors. She was incredible. If I remember right back then only the smaller schools played girls basketball. If I'm correct it was pretty much non-existent
at anything but what would be class A type small schools until the mid 70's and early 80's. And some of them wore some sort of pleated dress-type things for uniforms. I know my school didn't get it until the mid 70's and they were only one class below the large-school class.Also I remember the girls state tournaments being bigger draws than the boys tournaments. I would imagine entire towns would show up to watch.