Title IX changed the rules for women Was the merger of the AIAW into the male-dominated NCAA worth it? 1970’s The History of Title IX 1980s In 1966, The University of Texas women’s budget was $700; by 1983, the budget was $1,000,000 with receipts of 1,850,000 dollars. 1990’s A Brief History of the National Collegiate…
How the NCAA women’sFinal Four was born A decade after Title IX, a battle for control of women’sbasketball split loyalties and produced two national champions LEFT: Rutgers defeated Texas, 83-77, in the 1982 AIAW women’s basketball championship. RIGHT: Forward Ann Pendergrass helped Louisiana Tech defeat Cheyney State, 76-62, in the first NCAA women’s championship…
FOR INFORMATION ON WOMEN’S BASKETBALL BEFORE 1957, PLEASE VISIT the following three links: https://www.texaslsn.org/19211957-anna-hiss, or https://www.texaslsn.org/1896-1921 , or https://www.texaslsn.org/the-importance-of-the-1940s-for-womens-sports Table of Contents 1957- Anna Hiss retires as the women’s director – Women’s sports history 1957-1961 1962-1974 BETTY THOMPSON transitions women’s sports from Hiss to Lopiano. BETTY THOMPSON “NOR HELL A FURY LIKE A WOMAN SCORNED”…
Longhorn Women’s Sports History 1950-1977 Foundation laid for Women Longhorn Sports 1921-1949 1948 Turtle Club 1943 1949 Top of the Charts 1949 The high school physical education association decided to get involved with women’s basketball by supervising the competitive activity. Rules were established for women’s basketball, and a playoff system was organized and sponsored for…
Title 9 is concerned with athletic opportunities, while big-time football is concerned with marketing and university relations. Title nine is about benefits to student-athletes. Football is about benefits to the institution. In June 1968, Homer Babbage, the president of the University of Connecticut, gave a talk about the National Association of collegiate athletic directors in…
A tribute to Betty Thompson from Rodney Page It was 45 years ago during the summer of 1972, that I first set foot on the University of Texas campus. Little did I realize how that would affect my future, personally and professionally. It was also my first visit to Austin, TX. I came to…
Mildred Ella Didrikson remains arguably the best woman athlete of the 20th century. She was brash and talented, and she was from Texas. Known as the Texas tomboy, she was a hustler who loved to exaggerate her feet and obscure the details of her life story. She rejected dominant ideas of femininity, but she was…
“Click on the text denoted in red font on the side bar to visit other sites in this “article” grid Betty Thompson, “The Quiet Crusader” sets the tone for the transition from the Hiss doctrine to the Lopiano Renaissance. Betty Thompson’s thoughts about women in sports were closely aligned with Anna Hiss. Like Hiss, her…
The spirit of Title IX is now part of the great history of Longhorn sports as witnessed by the winners of awards presented at the Women’s All Sports Banquets. A sampling follows: Definition of awards given at the Women’s All Sports Banquet. The Women’s Athletics Department’s highest…
OTHER NON-LONGHORN SPECIAL MOMENTS THAT INFLUENCED U.T. WOMEN’S SPORTS 1900- The first Olympic Games to feature female athletes was the 1900 Games in Paris. 1908- London had 37 female athletes who competed in archery, tennis, and figure skating. 1912- Stockholm featured 47 women, saw the addition of swimming and diving, and removed figure skating and…