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Before UConn, There Was Wayland Baptist Although UConn can match U.C.L.A.’s major-college record of consecutive victories, the Huskies remain far short of the 131 straight games that Wayland Baptist won from 1953 to ’58 — a streak that began early in the first term of the Eisenhower administration, remained aloft as McDonald’s golden arches first appeared along with Dear Abby and Frisbees, then fell from orbit two months after Sputnik.
Wayland’s unsurpassed but little-known streak began nearly two decades before the legislative decree known as Title IX prohibited sex discrimination in education in 1972, and nearly three decades before the N.C.A.A. began sponsoring women’s basketball in 1982.
It was instead an era when women found sporting opportunities in the Amateur Athletic Union, often in rural communities on semipro teams with business sponsors, before athletic prospects later blossomed on college campuses by federal mandate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/sports/ncaabasketball/19wayland.html?_r=3&hp
Wayland’s unsurpassed but little-known streak began nearly two decades before the legislative decree known as Title IX prohibited sex discrimination in education in 1972, and nearly three decades before the N.C.A.A. began sponsoring women’s basketball in 1982.
It was instead an era when women found sporting opportunities in the Amateur Athletic Union, often in rural communities on semipro teams with business sponsors, before athletic prospects later blossomed on college campuses by federal mandate.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/sports/ncaabasketball/19wayland.html?_r=3&hp
