The sport is still occasionally seen at the recreational level, such as during physical education classes; in these cases, both boys and girls play the game.
Beginning in 1958 the Office of Civil Rights started looking at banning six-on-six high school girls basketball.
In general, the best athletes were those playing both ends of the courts, while offense would usually have both an inside (big) player and an outside shooter type.
[13] "Six-On-Six: The Musical", a show by Robert John Ford celebrating the sport's popularity in Iowa, debuted in 2009 at Hoyt Sherman Place in Des Moines.
Formed in Iowa in 2005, the league consists of women aged 50 and older who play by 1920s rules and wear 1920s-style uniforms.