<p>Does any state still play girl’s high school basketball with the 6 player teams? I was telling my daughter about it the other evening and she didn’t believe me.</p>
<p>I know that NH, MA. VT, and ME play with 5 players.</p>
<p>I think Iowa was the last state to play with 6 player teams, but I am having trouble confirming that.</p>
<p>UMDAD - I thought Iowa was too but this NY Times article indicates that when Iowa completely phased out six-on-six in 1993 (effective after the 93-94 season), Oklahoma was still doing it.</p>
<p>[Basketball</a>; End of Era in Girls Basketball - New York Times](<a href=“http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE5DF1730F936A35751C0A965958260]Basketball”>http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F0CE5DF1730F936A35751C0A965958260)</p>
<p>And it looks like Oklahoma phased it out after the 94-95 season:</p>
<p>[Coaches</a> Aid - Oklahoma High School Sports Magazine](<a href=“http://old.coachesaid.com/readts.asp?xID=173&xText=0503/H_04reeder_six.txt&xSPORT=ALL]Coaches”>http://old.coachesaid.com/readts.asp?xID=173&xText=0503/H_04reeder_six.txt&xSPORT=ALL)</p>
<p>NJ is 5. I never heard of the 6 player teams.</p>
<p>Is this when there were 3 on offense and 3 on defense and each player only played half court? this is the game my aunt played in the 40’s -
thought it was loonnnnngggggggg gone.</p>
<p>This is pretty old:</p>
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<p>My mother told me that’s the game they played at Garfield HS.</p>
<p>I’d played that game in the 60’s. 6 on 6. There were one or two “rovers” permitted on each team, who played the entire floor. That would have been me. I was a terror on both offense and defense. :D</p>
<p>Isn’t the traditional breakdown two offensive and two defensive specialists and the other two played both ends? My mom and aunts all played (mom tore up her knee ), and Rosalynn Carter was on a rival team . Yes, that Rosalynn Carter. At least that’s the story told back home. ;)</p>
<p>I grew up in Iowa and played “girls rules” all through out school. I’m 43, so it was not that long ago.</p>
<p>In Connecticut it changed at the very end of the 60s. None of my kids believe me when I tell them we couldn’t cross the half court line and played 6 on 6. But as I recall, that was junior high. When I played in high school – not until junior year – it was 5 on 5 and full court. My first two high school years are like a black hole as far as any sort of school based ECs. I rode horses instead.</p>
<p>At the very real risk of dating myself, I grew up in MA, and played “girls rules” all through HS – I graduated in early 70’s. My favorite position was “Rover.”</p>
<p>I played basketball until I was 38. For the last five years we played “old men rules” where the other four members of my team ran back and forth and I sort of sauntered from baseline to baseline. Just another variant of “girl rules” I suppose…</p>
<p>I played til I was 48. Oldest dude in the league that year. The 25 year olds recovered quicker from hard fouls…</p>