USA BASKETBALL HISTORY
USA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP TEAM 1957 RESULTS
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL • OCTOBER 13-26, 1957
The 1957 USA team was well balanced. Eight members of the squad were named as 1957 AAU All-Americans, while Rita Alexander, Barbara Ann Sipes and Katherine Washington offered the U.S. international experience. Coach John Head, who had directed the 1953 USA team to the gold medal, once again relied on the outstanding play of Washington, who had helped lead the 1953 team to the World crown. Seeking to successfully defend the 1953 title, the U.S. was considered a co-favorite with the Soviet Union. The Soviet women had won four consecutive European titles and were making their first appearance in the FIBA World Championship. The U.S. successfully advanced from the preliminary round to the final round but not without some concern. Drubbing Peru 75-37 in its opening preliminary round game, with Sipes contributing a game-high 19 points, the U.S. next cruised past Argentina 64-39 as Nera White led the way with 22 points. However, in its final preliminary contest the United States received 14 points from Joan Crawford, 13 from Wash- ington and 12 from White, but was upset by Czechoslovakia 53-50. Opening the final round of competition against Hungary, the U.S. trailed 29-27 at half, but rallied in the second half to take a hard-fought 51-46 decision behind a 15-point effort from Sipes. The following day, White poured in 28 points as the Americans bested host Brazil 67-44. White led four U.S. players in double digits with 18 points as the U.S. squad jumped all over Chile early, took a 40-17 lead into the locker room at halftime and sailed to a 76-47 victory. In a rematch with Czechoslovakia, the U.S. avenged its earlier loss by recording an impressive 61-55 win led by Crawford’s 15 points. Sipes netted 9-of-10 from the line and finished with a game-high 27 points as the USA’s defense limited Paraguay to just eight first half points and went on to record a 60-40 win to set the stage for its final match against unbeaten Soviet Union. The USA-USSR matchup marked the first time the two women’s teams had faced each other in a major competition, thus beginning a rivalry that would last decades. The USA women trailed by three, 27-24, at half, but regrouped and with the aid of 18 points from Sipesand recorded a 51-48 come-from-behind victory to claim the 1957 World title.
1957 USA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP TEAM ROSTER
1957 USA RESULTS (8-1)
NAME
POS HGT WGT AGE AFFILIATION
HOMETOWN
Peru
W, 75-37 W, 64-39 L, 50-53 W, 51-46 W, 67-44 W, 76-47 W, 61-55 W, 60-40 W, 51-48
Argentina
Rita Alexander Alice Barron Alberta Cox Joan Crawford Lucille Davidson Edith Keaton Norma Rowland Doris Scoggins Barbara Ann Sipes
G
5-5 5-3 5-8 6-0 5-6 5-11 5-3 6-0
21 21
Hutcherson Flying Queens Hutcherson Flying Queens
Coppell, TX
F
Czechoslovakia
G C G G C C F
Midland Jewelry
Kansas City, MO Nashville, TN Kansas City, MO Kansas City, MO St. Joseph, MO Collinsville, TX
FINAL ROUND
20
Clarendon Junior College
Hungary
Midland Jewelry Midland Jewelry Platt College
22 22 19 21 22 24 22
Brazil Chile
Nashville Business College Iowa Wesleyan College Nashville Business College Nashville Business College Nashville Business College
Czechoslovakia
6-2 5-3 5-9 6-1
Dexter, IA
Paraguay
Peggy Tate
F
Katherine Washington
G
Murfreesboro, TN
Soviet Union
Nera White
F
Lafayette, TN
HEAD COACH: John Head, Nashville Business College (TN) ASSISTANT COACH: Tennie McGhee, AAU
FINAL STANDINGS
1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8.
United States (6-0) Soviet Union (5-1) Czechoslovakia (4-2)
Brazil (3-3)
Hungary (2-4) Paraguay (1-5)
1957 USA WOMEN’S WORLD CUP TEAM CUMULATIVE STATISTICS
Chile (0-6)
NAME
G/S
FGM-A
FTM-A
PCT
PF
PTS
Mexico (4-0)
9. Argentina (3-1) 10. Australia (2-2)
N. White B. Sipes
9 9 9 8 9 9 6 5 5 5 5 4 9 9
47- 42- 41- 27- 11- 14-
33-63 35-50 22-37 20-36 23-33
.524 .700 .595 .556 .697 .667 .765 .500
20 23 20 28 24 21
127/ 14.1 119/ 13.2 104/ 11.6
11. Peru (1-3) 12. Cuba (0-4)
K. Washington J. Crawford E. Keaton R. Alexander L. Davidson
74/ 9.3 45/ 5.0 30/ 3.3 27/ 4.5 13/ 2.6 6/ 1.2 4/ 0.8 3/ 0.6 3/ 0.8
2-3
7- 3- 2- 1- 0- 1-
13-17 7-14
6 6 8
A. Cox
A. Barron D. Scoggins N. Rowland
2-5 2-2 3-3 1-5
.400 1.000 1.000 .200 .608 .587
13 10
R. Tate
4
USA OPP.
196- 130-
163-268 149-254
183 190
555/ 61.2 409/ 45.4
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