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AHS Girls Basketball Team
Photo from the 1911 to 1912 Season

The Spirit, Volume 1, Number 2, February, 1912

The Basket Ball season has been closed for some time and at present no athletics are in progress in Ames High, but our season was a good one and every one is entirely satisfied.  Our three games were won with the exception of the last game at Jefferson in which the score was a tie.  Owing to the lack of time, the Ames girls were unable to remain to play it out.  Our scores were as follows:

We hope to have a larger number at our first meeting in the spring including all the old players.  Our girls worked hard and not one failed us when we needed her.  The girls seemed more interested in the game than in being on the first team and that is what counts.  Everyone loyal and trying to help those who do make the team.

Miss Edna Pammel was our B.B. Coach.  Her success is shown in the score made by the Team.

Gladys Meads labels this image, circa 1907, as "Ames High plays ISC on court west of Margaret Hall." It is possible that Miss Edna Pammel, coach of the Ames High squad of 1911-1912, is visible in this photo because she was an important member of the fledgling 1906-1907 basketball team of Iowa State College.  The early days of women's basketball at Iowa State College are mentioned in ISU's Past Traditions. Perhaps the official seen blowing the whistle is Winifred Tilden.  The basketball player to the left of the official has been confirmed as Ada Hayden, who played for ISC the year of this photo.