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photo of the Jewish Peoples’ Institute Girls basketball team, 1920s
The Jewish Peoples’ Institute Girls was a leading women’s amateur basketball team in Chicago during the 1920s and 1930s. The team was formed at the Chicago Hebrew Institute (changed to Jewish Peoples’ Institute (JPI) in 1922) in October 1916. Reportedly there was not another girls team in the city, until Hull House, Christ Church, Sinai Social Center, and the Illinois Athletic Club (the future Brownies) also formed teams. In the first contest of amateur women’s team in Chicago, the Hebrew Institute girls defeated the Hull House girls 25 to 15
these ladies sure know how to score!!!