This is a new one on me as I have never heard of this before. I just stumbled upon it.

 

Girls six-on-six high school basketball began in the 1930's, and ultimately ended In Oklahoma in 1995. It was very popular in such states as Iowa, Oklahoma, and Texas.

 

The rules were quite different with 3 main differences described in this wikipedia link.

 

Six-on-six basketball - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

The most notable being that there were 3 forwards and 3 guards on each team, where the forwards were the only ones allowed to shoot, and the guards the only ones allowed to defend, while the remaining players stayed behind the half court line waiting for possession to change.

 

These games tended to be fast paced high scoring games.

 

 

Here's an interesting documentary that takes a look at it's history and describes how the game is played.

 

More Than a Game: 6-on-6 Basketball in Iowa | Full Program » More Than A Game: 6-On-6 Basketball In Iowa » Iowa Stories » Iowa Public Television

 

Here's a complete Iowa Championship game from 1968.

 

Pretty interesting.

 

Even if you don't tackle watching the whole game, it demonstrates real well how this game was played, and the excitement that surrounded it.

 

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I am familiar with it. Remember it from the 70s.

 

I have a friend who played 6 on 6.

I had heard about it but had never seen a game until now. Interesting.

CRAZY numbers, Everly player avg, 58 ppg & and over 3000pts in 2 years, and girl for Union-Whitton avg. 62 ppg & scored 111 in one game.......:eek:

 

Jamie Walz can't touch that. :lol2:

The Cattle Feeders vs. Cobras...........love the nicknames.

 

That is a crazy game, the Officials do more passing than the players. :lol2:

To quote Harry Carey "HOLY COW!"

When I started in the 7th grade at Holmes in 1962 the girls played something similar to this. I thought it was 7 on 7 and 2 girls stayed back on defense but it could have been 6 on 6. Just can't remember the details. Seemed like they called it GAA but I may be imagining that.

My buddy Jim Schue's mother grew up in Iowa, and I remember her talking about this when we were kids.

My buddy Jim Schue's mother grew up in Iowa, and I remember her talking about this when we were kids.

 

Yep. Mom was a "guard" in her day, which means her job was to "guard" opposing players and not set foot across half court to the offensive end. I'll tell her "defensive specialist" sounds cooler in that light.

My mother played this in the 40's. Taylor Hgh School.

That's pretty cool that some of your mothers played this game, and that some of you have heard of it. I would have never guessed that anyone here would've had any connection to the game.

 

I wonder how widespread throughout the nation it was played.

I can only come up with references about it in a few states.

 

Not to take the light off of the girls 6-on-6 game, but in the spirit of unusual game rules, my Dad played for CovCath in '36 and '37 and said that back then after every bucket scored there was a center court jump ball. I'm not sure when this changed. This slowed the game down dramatically. Typical final scores were in the teens and twenties.

 

Also, previous to 1949 sideline coaching was not allowed, and only permitted at halftime.

Mom played this as well in the 1950's at Newport HS.

I remember this when I was in High School in West Virginia.

I played 6 on 6 in 1978 1979 in Tennessee. I was in Middle School and my Freshman year we went to 5 on 5, ie what they called "Full Court". In the 6 on 6 game every jump ball was a real jump ball and it depended on where you were on the floor as to where you jumped it up.. There use to be a full circle painted on the floor at the freethrow line and that is where the jump ball happened if you were on that end of the court. You could not cross the line at half court and if you did it was out of bounds. Sometimes you threw the ball in from the jump circle too. It was a very different game with some very different plays and skills. I totally disagree with the comment about the fast pace.. Now where near as much running.

Just out of curiosity, what happens when the defense on one side of the court denies the pass from the other side of the court?