Please look at all SEVEN photos.
I was a student at Delta State University from 1974-1977 when the Lady Statesmen women's basketball team made their historic THREE consecutive national championship title runs. Shown in the main Ebay photo are 5 newspaper clippings I saved from the March 18 & 24, 1975, issues of the BOLIVAR COMMERCIAL newspaper in Cleveland, Mississippi. There is also one clipping from 1977 where I failed to include the exact date. Lusia Harris Stewart (by then married) and Head Coach Margaret Wade are in that photo. It was when the National Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, requested one of Stewart's jerseys for a permanent display. The top left photo on page 4 of the March 24, 1975, issue, shows what is probably the most famous and most frequently republished photo of Harris grabbing a hard fought rebound. This newspaper shot was its very first publication appearance. The largest clipping is a 2-page spread with photos of all team members and coaches. The reverse of that page is not shown in any of my listing photos, but it has two more photos with several team members in the shots. It's hard to make out (because I am a terrible photographer) but one of the photos shows the 1975 championship bracket I saved and wrote on as the playoffs continued. On the Monday, March 24 front page photo, there is a photo of many students gathered in front of a hastily-made sign announcing that night's Lady Statesmen victory over Immaculata. The game was not broadcast on TV but on a local radio station. As soon as the game ended, many students made an impromptu victory parade driving all over Cleveland honking our horns and yelling loudly out the car windows. I later heard from a Cleveland police officer that they received "dozens" of phone calls from irate residents who did not listen to the game, had no idea what was going on, and they wanted the police to stop the noise. Some callers thought there was a protest of some kind going on and were frightened. I am including a copy of that photo where I have identified many of those students because I was one of them.
Also included in this auction is a SIGNED 1st Edition of INAUGURAL BALLERS: THE TRUE STORY OF THE FIRST US WOMEN'S OLYMPIC BASKETBALL TEAM by Andrew Maraniss. Many people do not know that Harris scored the very first points in women's Olympic basketball. Maraniss signed this copy in my presence at the 2022 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville. He did not inscribe it to me or anyone else, So it will make a great gift to the women's basketball fan or player in your life. There are many B&W photos in the book, including 8 of Harris. In the book's index, you will find Lusia Harris Stewart mentioned on 27 pages, Delta State on 7 pages, Margaret Wade on 6 pages, the Mississippi Delta on 6 pages, Cleveland Mississippi on 2 pages, and Dr. Kent Wyatt (then the VP of Delta State and later its President) on 1 page. Not surprisingly, Pat Head Summitt is mentioned many times and has several photos in the book. She was a star basketball player at UT-Martin, a member of the same Olympic team as Harris, and later, the legendary coach for the UT Lady Vols basketball team. Both the book and the DJ are in Like New condition.
All these items will be very carefully packaged to insure safe shipping. Please note that the newspaper clippings are almost 50 years old and will show obvious signs of aging and some creasing.