We look back at the Edmonton Grads and the letter the Father Basktball, James Naismith, wrote to the women's team in 1936.

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"You are not only an inspiration to basketball players throughout the world, but a model of all girls' teams. Your attitude and success have been a source of gratification to me in illustrating the possibilities of the game in the development of the highest type of womanhood," James Naismith wrote.