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Title
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Women's Hockey Club Photograph
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Description
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The photograph of the Women's Hockey Club is of several women that participated in athletics at Pacific University. There is lack of information about the individual women because the picture did not include a list of their names. Based off of other sources about when women were part of field hockey would be approximately between 1918-1925. There are field hockey team pictures throughout 'The Heart of Oak' yearbooks during the years of 1922 and 1923. There is even articles in 1920 that mentions of women's hockey teams throughout the Index newspaper. Women throughout each of the pictures have the same type of uniform. All the women are wearing some sort of white shirt with a black sash tied around their neck in the same way. The uniform throughout the different years have very many similarities, so based on that contextual evidence this picture seems to possibly have been taken between 1918-1925.
Field hockey was apart of a larger schedule for women's athletics. Field hockey was part of a list of sports that women could play based on the implementations of the Women's Athletic Association of Pacific University. These sports including field hockey provided opportunities for women to earn points in order to earn an official white sweater. An official white sweater signifies a lettermens jacket to show women what they have accomplished in sports. Field hockey was played during the fall season and outside out on a field when the weather permitted. The field hockey group did not play competitively against other teams. The early implementations of women's sports at Pacific University included competitions between their classes. There was a variation of teams with the classes. In 1922 it was Senior-Sophomore girls versus the Junior-Freshman class. While in 1923, the teams were composed of Senior-Freshman girls and the other team was the Junior-Sophomore team. Based on the variations of the teams it might have changed every year to make the competition different and interesting. It was one of the oldest sports in the United States and also a very popular game as well. Many girls participated in these events and many of them came back to play this sport. Some articles within the Pacific University Index Newspaper mentioned the popularity and amount of girls that improved and came back to play field hockey during the 1920's. It shows the amount of support these women got from the Women's Athletic Association based on the push for women's athletics to be able to earn points for their participation.
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Date
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1918-1925
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Identifier
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PUApic_009451
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Rights
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Copyright Not Evaluated
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http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
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Type
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Still Image
