1913: Some of the first youth basketball games ever played in Layton

This 1912 Layton team of young women was sponsored by the Layton Latter-day Saint Ward. The team won all five games it played that year, including against Kaysville High School. From left to right, the players are: Vera Morgan Adams, Alta Craig Ronnencamp, Luella Nalder Rosemait, Lou Morgan Spackman, unknown teacher from Layton Elementary, Nellie Adams Sanders, Ramona Whitesides Hill and Lillie Young Dawson.

                                                                         -Heritage Museum of Layton photograph.

SOME of the first basketball ever played in Layton featured boys and girls games during 1913.

According to the Ogden Evening Standard newspaper of March 8, 1913, the Ogden High School boys and girls teams traveled to Layton by way of the Bamberger Railroad to play boys and girls from Layton.

Although there was no Layton High in those days, the community had fielded teams of teenagers.

The Layton girls team beat Ogden High 14-13 in a game played on March 8, 1913. The Layton boys too were victorious by a score of 27-26.

The girls game featured some unusual circumstances – girl's game rules were followed in the first half, but the second half of the game was played under the boy's rules.

Following the games, a dance was hosted by Layton for all the teams to participate in.

-Years later, in the spring of 1932, a Layton women’s baseball team lost to a Kaysville women’s team 11-4, in a game reported in the June 3, 1932 Davis County Clipper.