{"id":703,"date":"2013-11-06T12:00:01","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T12:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/?p=703"},"modified":"2020-12-16T09:47:59","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T15:47:59","slug":"the-newhall-girls-of-1927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/2013\/11\/06\/the-newhall-girls-of-1927\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Newhall Girls of 1927&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2013\/12\/tumblr_mvnpxzDCIq1smqom2o1_r3_500.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-704\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2013\/12\/tumblr_mvnpxzDCIq1smqom2o1_r3_500.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_mvnpxzDCIq1smqom2o1_r3_500\" width=\"432\" height=\"339\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2013\/12\/tumblr_mvnpxzDCIq1smqom2o2_r2_1280.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-705\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/files\/2013\/12\/tumblr_mvnpxzDCIq1smqom2o2_r2_1280.gif\" alt=\"tumblr_mvnpxzDCIq1smqom2o2_r2_1280\" width=\"576\" height=\"272\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Welcome to Women\u2019s History Wednesday!<\/p>\n<p>In 1924, the Iowa High School Athletic Association decided that organized basketball was \u201cunhealthy\u201d for girls and announced their decision to eliminate the girls\u2019 state championship tournament. In response, female athletes statewide took action; that included members of the Newhall team, pictured here, who rode on horseback from farm to farm to win their neighbors\u2019 support.<\/p>\n<p>Those efforts paid off big for Newhall\u2019s players, who in 1927 won the first-ever girls state championship under the newly-founded Iowa Girls High School Athletic Union. After a breathless night following the game remotely \u2014 it wasn\u2019t broadcast on the radio, so fans gathered at a Newhall restaurant where the tournament plays were called out via a long-distance phone call \u2014 the whole town turned out the next morning to welcome their champions back home.<\/p>\n<p>As one newspaper report described it, \u201cThe Newhall Girls of 1927 have given the town a place in the sun.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/islandora\/object\/ui%3Arwc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Newhall items from the Rural Women Digital Collection<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>*This post is duplicated from the <a href=\"http:\/\/iowawomensarchives.tumblr.com\/post\/66219172035\/welcome-to-womens-history-wednesday-in-1924-the\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Iowa Women&#8217;s Archives Tumblr<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to Women\u2019s History Wednesday! In 1924, the Iowa High School Athletic Association decided that organized basketball was \u201cunhealthy\u201d for girls and announced their decision to eliminate the girls\u2019 state championship tournament. In response, female athletes statewide took action; that included members of the Newhall team, pictured here, who rode on horseback from farm to<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/2013\/11\/06\/the-newhall-girls-of-1927\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;&#8220;The Newhall Girls of 1927&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[232,231,233],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1952,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions\/1952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=703"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/iwa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}