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Dorothy Eda Hehnke
“We can’t stop them.”
-- An athletic association president, 1922
In the early 1920s, Dorothy Eda Hehnke played half-court basketball at her Nebraska high school, one of few sports available to girls. At the time, most people mistakenly believed that girls could not handle the physical exertion or stress of competitive sports. In 1926 the state legislature outlawed girl’s play altogether -- a ban not overturned until Title IX.
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