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- When I first think of six-on-six basketball
what comes to mind is fast.
It was a game was a game that was played really quickly
because of some of the roles that
were in play at that time.
- You can't run,
you can't jump.
and you can't have any body contact.
- Two courts,
three forwards,
three guards.
That was your team.
- Guards did not cross the center line.
You stayed on one side.
- You could only go to the half court.
So there's a lot of strategy in six-on-six
that wasn't at the time in five-on-five.
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- You need to have bloomers on.
You have to have blouses that could cover everything.
They cover your arms and you've got to have
socks that go with knee-high.
Nothing is exposed.
If you have bare arms that's a foul.
- We had red
and white cottons
and then we got new,
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- Our uniforms for us at that time looked a lot like
your current cheerleading uniforms look like.
So it was a dress with shorts underneath.
- It was short, like really short,
and they were made out of really heavy polyester.
Now they're stretchy
but not like the Knights lightweight, dry fit stuff today.
It was thick stuff.
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Guards could not go through
all across the half court line
and neither could the forwards.
So there's a whole strategy of play
that occur right at the half court line.
You could only dribble twice.
You could only hold a ball for three seconds
at either end of that dribble.
So you could look around for three seconds,
dribble, dribble.
You had to know where you're gonna go,
because if he stopped,
again you only had three seconds to pass.
So there was a lot of cutting and angling and back doors
because there were fewer players.
There was room for that kind of place
to be put into place.
You were serving back into the same court unless,
when you checked in, you would specifically have
to tell them if you're switching courts
and you couldn't do that just willingly.
You know once you switched over to that court,
then you took it, and stay in that court.
That's why a lot of times they only did it for a house.
Fouls where the same,
you got five,
but that was back in the day
that if you did not raise your hand, when you fouled,
you got a technical.
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- We have Granny Basketball League.
And so, they have community members
sometimes play against the grannies
and we always get beaten by these old women.
- I am a member
of Mount Vernon Trinitee Association,
and Trinitee uses Granny Basketball as a fundraiser
so we can send fourth grade girls to camp.
They follow the 1920's rules for basketball
and when they've done it as an exhibition game.
We have had teachers and community members be
our participants and they find that it's really difficult
with a lot of athletes
who have played the grannies
the grannies have beat them.
And so that a nice club.
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- I love playing it.
- I do miss playing six-on-six.
Playing that game is unique
not many places did it.
- The training, I don't miss .
The running I don't miss
but I love competing.
I loved competing
It was a huge part of my life for a lot of my life.
- You better believe it.
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