Woman’s Hockey in the USA during the Roaring Twenties
The 1920s brought the Prohibition, women achieving the right to vote, the beginning of the Great Depression, and Flappers who were the young women of the era that sought more out of life.
No one ever said that woman could not play hockey, but men and women of the time just preferred that females did not play professionally or in any organized league but only for recreation.
So they did, believing that this was a way of cutting the Victorian constraints still imposed on women and to show their vitality and health they played ice hockey unbelievably outside in their swimsuits.
Without any organization to represent or provide league play there is little to no information on the young ladies that took to the ice a century ago, a few images and admiration is all that you can find researching online.
Today woman’s ice hockey played in the United States of America is vibrant and entertaining and provides ladies of all ages to be able to participate in organized league play and hockey always was and has always been for everyone even without the government’s overreach to tell us so.
Buffalo Winter 
A different kind of hockey read, interesting, many thanks Buffalo Winter.
Honestly it is mindboggling to me that the women played outside in swimsuits.
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Many your welcomes,
Would you play in your swimsuit?
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I’ve never been much of a history buff in general but when it comes to hockey… :)
Hockey history, especially pertaining to topics like this, catches and holds my interest and curiosity if that makes sense, lol.
Have a nice Sunday, everyone.
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Haha.
Only if I could wear the pink one.
The other question might be whether or not anyone would want to see me play in my swimsuit, lol.
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Look what I found!
Some Canadian history.
An excerpt:
When Stanley arrived to his Canadian residence, Rideau Hall, in 1888, he came with his wife and four children, three sons and a daughter, Lady Isobel. And while the men in the family quickly fell in love with hockey, so, too, did Isobel, who encouraged her father to build an outdoor rink in the gardens of Rideau Hall during the winter months. Indeed, in 1890, Isobel was quite possibly the first woman photographed playing the game, and she promoted the sport among women with the same fervour her father promoted amateur hockey for men.
On 11 February 1891, the first account of a women’s hockey game appeared in the Ottawa Citizen, and a year later similar notice was published in a newspaper in Barrie, Ontario. The first women’s club team was formed at Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario, where the Love-me-Littles (so named because of the lack of support from men in the community) made their own history. The team wore bright yellow sweaters with a large red Q on the front and were led by the great Marion Fraser. After a few years, the team changed its name to Morning Glories, and thus began women’s hockey at the Canadian university level.
https://www.iihf.com/en/static/42596/general_information
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Thank you for the Canadian woman’s ice hockey history lesson, I amended the article to reflect my American perspective, lol
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