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A decade's worth of newspaper's sports sections
are full of references to Rosenfeld, "undoubtedly
the greatest all-around woman athlete in the
world," and her "vast army of admirers." Whether
"the super woman athlete" was playing defense for
the Lakesides basketball squad, center for the
North Toronto Ladies ice hockey team or short stop
for the Hinde and Dauche softball club, Rosenfeld
led them all to championships again and again. Just
one example, from 1931: "Besides managing the
[Maple Leafs softball] team, she played
first base, and her fielding, hitting and 'fight'
brought the Leafs from the cellar to the
championship."
In 1924 she even won the Toronto Ladies Grass
Courts tennis championship.
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Constance Hennessey, one of the
founding members of the Toronto Ladies Athletic
Club, remembered Rosenfeld as, "not big, perhaps
five-foot-five. She didn't look powerful but she
was wiry and quick. Above all she was aggressive,
very aggressive physically. No, I don't mean that
she made a lot of noise or had a belligerent
manner. She simply went after everything with full
force....She was just the complete athlete and I am
certain she would have been good at any sport.
Certainly, she was as good as one could see in
track and field, hockey, basketball and
softball.
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Or, more simply, in the words of one historian:
"If any single individual epitomized women's sport
in the 1920's, she did."
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How to Cite This Page
For a bibliography:
Jewish Women's Archive. "JWA - Bobbie Rosenfeld - Super Woman Athlete." <http://jwa.org/exhibits/wov/rosenfeld/athlete.html>.
For a footnote:
Jewish Women's Archive, "JWA - Bobbie Rosenfeld - Super Woman Athlete," <http://jwa.org/exhibits/wov/rosenfeld/athlete.html>.
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