Sporting Women

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2. Like the boys, the GAA's played basketball and tennis. However, the majority of their competitions involved more "feminine" sports such as synchronized swimming, volleyball, archery, bowling, and gymnastics.  In most cases, photographs showed women athletes in "ladylike" poses.  After 1960, girls joined pep clubs, drill teams, cheerleading, and pom-poms, and other organizations in large numbers.  Rather than compete, they  cheered the men's teams to victory against opposing schools.  

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       Hammond High, Women's Sports, 1953 

                            

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                                                                     Crown Point GAA, Bowling, 1958      Munster GAA, Bowling, 1973  

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                   Munster High School Drill Team, 1966  

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