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Clara Gregory Baer (August 27, 1863-?) is famous for her pioneering role in Women's Sports . Baer was born on August 27, 1863 in New Orleans , Louisiana. She attended college in Boston and returned to the South for a 38-year career in Physical Education and teacher training. She is best known as the author of the first book of rules for Women's Basketball in 1895. She first called the game 'basquette', a name later dropped in her first revision of rules called Sophie Newcomb College Basketball Rules published in 1908. NCAA Women's Basketball , access date 24 January, 2007 As a physical education instructor at Newcomb College in Louisiana , she also invented the game " Newcomb Ball ", now played as a Variation of Volleyball .[http://www.aafla.org/SportsLibrary/JSH/JSH1996/JSH2302/jsh2302f.pdf Paul, Joan, A Lost Sport: Clara Gregory Baer and Newcomb ball, Journal of Sport History, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Summer 1996)] Baer is also credited with inventing Netball , albeit as a result of misinterpreting the early concept of basketball. International Netball Federation, ''Netball: History'' , access date 28 January, 2007 REFERENCES EXTERNAL LINKS
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