Women’s History

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…

“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…

FOR INFORMATION ON WOMEN’S BASKETBALL before 1957 PLEASE VISIT 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”  1975 -1976 Coach Page…

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…

  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…