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Old Tue Feb 28, 2006, 02:34pm
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Originally posted by Mark Padgett
I remember having a jump ball every time the laces on the ball got snagged on the peach basket.
I remember the guy on the ladder fell off one time.


It used to be that the 5-second count on the throw-in required that the ball be TOUCHED inbounds within 5 seconds, not just thrown. This eliminated a lot of long passes.
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Old Tue Feb 28, 2006, 03:40pm
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Girls used to play with 3 on the offensive end and 3 on the defensive end. The defensive players would get the ball and then not be allowed to cross half-court.
Iirc, it was 2/3 of the court instead of half-court. The defense had to stay in the back 2/3 of the way they were shooting, and the offense had to stay in the front 2/3. They were only allowed 2 dribbles too, I think.
In Iowa, up until around 1993 or 1994, only the big schools were playing with 5 players. My school played "six-player" basketball for the girls. It was half court.

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My hometown made the switch in 1992 from girls 6on6 to the game you see today. We were 2A at the time (approximately 55-75 kids per class). Rules were as snaqwells described.

The 4-H leagues (the small town version of AAU) switched the girls over about 5 years earlier when they sensed the time was coming. (my ma was a coach for a couple years) That helped ease a lot of the schools into it.

BTW I remember seeing one of the funniest things in 1996 when the girls team went to state. They finished the regular season 15-1 and the boys finished 1-15 and fans would leave the gym after the girls game so that the boys would only have about 1/2 to 2/3rds of the crowd left. Never have seen anything like it again.

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