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We're not sure what color the uniforms were in the above photo, which documents a women's basketball game in the Armory (on the site of today's Willard Building) in 1912. Basketball has been played on an intercollegiate level at Penn State since 1896, making it the third oldest intercollegiate sport at the University, after football and track. But for many years it was limited to men. For women, intramural contests such as the one pictured were the rule. Women did not play basketball intercollegiately until 1964, when that sport joined fencing, field hockey, golf, and gymnastics as Penn State's initial entries in the realm of women's intercollegiate athletics. Today, about 800 Penn State student-athletes participate in 15 men's and 14 women's intercollegiate sports.
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