The skill level of women's soccer has impressed the world as we watch the 2019 World Cup soccer players in awe. The U.S. faced England in the semi-finals and they gave us a great match. Whereas the growth of women's soccer in the U.S. has been credited to the passage of Title IX in 1972, the British Ladies Football Club (U.S. soccer) was created in 1894, with their most famous team being the “Dick, Kerr Ladies." The Dick, Kerr Ladies came from the Preston weapons plant where

1964 Olympics - Tokyo, Japan The images in this post are all from vintage trading cards. The 1964 games were marked by several firsts: they were the first telecast, meaning they didn’t have to fly the film internationally before it was shown on TV, and they were the first to not use a cinder track. The Tokyo games were also the last Olympics to use the hand-held stopwatch as the official time (which is why the times below are in tenths and not hundreths). Women made up 13%

1952 Olympics, Helsinki Finland Russia returns to the Olympics but this time as the Soviet Union. The People’s Republic of China (PRC), with one athlete, also made its country’s debut. After 1952, the PRC didn’t return to the Olympics until 1984. Overall, women made up 10.4% of all athletes, despite adding several sporting opportunities for women. Equestrian - For one, Equestrian made its Olympic debut. Lis Hartel (Den) won gold. Like Wilma Rudolf, Hartel had been stricke

The first Olympics that women could complete in in the modern era were held in the year 1900 in Paris, France. Twenty two women competed in two events (constituting 2% of all participants). This Olympics had humble beginnings. They did not have Opening or Closing ceremonies and they also did not give out medals, issuing bowls and mugs to the winners instead. The two sports that women competed in were tennis and golf. There were a few others that they competed in with men but