• The Iowa Cornets was a team that played for two seasons in the Women's Professional Basketball League. George Nissen purchased the first franchise in the...
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  • who grew up in Moravia, Iowa, became the first player signed by any team in the WBL when she was signed by the Iowa Cornets. The league played its first...
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  • Connie Kunzmann (category Basketball players from Iowa)
    1981) was a professional basketball player who was a member of the Iowa Cornets and the Nebraska Wranglers in the Women's Professional Basketball League...
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  • ended with the New York Stars winning the WBL Championship, beating the Iowa Cornets 3 games to 1 in the WBL Finals. The league was divided into three divisions...
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  • Moines Heat - IBL 2005–2006 Frontier City River Dogz - MBA Iowa Cornets - WBL 1978–1980 Iowa Wolves - NBA G League 2007–present Tri-Cities Blackhawks -...
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  • host Phyllis George with their last pick of the free agent draft. The Iowa Cornets selected 6'11" Gwen Bachman Hayes and the Chicago Hustle selected Sandy...
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    with the Iowa Cornets of the Women's Professional Basketball League, grew up in Moravia and was a 1975 graduate of Moravia High School. Iowa portal Wabash...
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  • beating the Iowa Cornets 3 games to 2 in the WBL Finals. The league was divided into two divisions, with Chicago Hustle, Milwaukee Does, Iowa Cornets and Minnesota...
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  • team won the league championship in the inaugural season defeating the Iowa Cornets three games to two in the best-of-five tournament. The team played their...
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  • the 1979-80 league championship in its second season, defeating the Iowa Cornets. The WBL began with a player draft held in Manhattan's Essex House in...
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    34-game schedule, were the Dayton (O.) Rockettes, the Houston Angels, tbe Iowa Cornets, the Minnesota Fillies, the New Jersey Gems, and the New York Stars....
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  • Molly Bolin (category Basketball players from Iowa)
    Professional Basketball League, when she signed a one-year contract with the Iowa Cornets for $6,000. Honing in on her appearance as a blonde bombshell, Bolin...
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  • of the New York Stars while the West was coached by Steve Kirk of the Iowa Cornets. Two players were selected from each of the 12 teams in the league. Despite...
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  • there for two years, before returning to the states and playing for the Iowa Cornets, a team in the Women's Professional Basketball League, the first professional...
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  • collection of hymn tunes Sweet Cornets (2009) – music featuring the Cornet Section Marching On (2004) – with the Eastern Iowa Brass Band Show Business (2001)...
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    Memorial Auditorium) is a building located in downtown Des Moines, Iowa, that is part of the Iowa Events Center. Named to honor the World War II veterans of Polk...
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  • Press. 13 June 1979. p. 11. Retrieved 10 March 2024 – via Newspapers.com. "Cornets select 5 Iowans in WBL draft". The Gazette. Associated Press. p. 1C. Retrieved...
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  • league. Despite a 36-point game from "Machine Gun" Molly Bolin of the Iowa Cornets, the Stars won the championship series behind a 27-point effort by Moore...
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  • chance to select her with the 4th pick, the team traded the pick to the Iowa Cornets for Denise Sharps, and Fincher was then selected with the fifth pick...
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    Center) is a multi-purpose arena located in the downtown area of Cedar Rapids, Iowa. It was financed by the approval of a voter referendum to allocate special...
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  • year, Meyers shared Most Valuable Player honors with Molly Bolin of the Iowa Cornets. New Jersey had a 19–17 record in the 1979–80 season, placing third in...
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    fifth game of the best-3-of-5 series against the Iowa Cornets. Houston won the first two games, Iowa the second two, setting up the deciding game, which...
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    percussion) consists of: 1 Soprano cornet in E♭ 9 Cornets in B♭ (in separate parts for 'solo', 'repiano', 2nd and 3rd cornets; there are 4 players on the 'solo'...
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  • Moravia High School (category Public high schools in Iowa)
    Benthuysen), one of the first professional women's basketball stars with the Iowa Cornets of the Women's Professional Basketball League, was a 1975 graduate of...
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  • 824. In their first season, the Hustle tied the Iowa Cornets for the Midwest Division title, but Iowa had home-court advantage for the playoffs and won...
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  • that Harold Hill describes to the citizens includes 76 trombones, 110 cornets, "more than a thousand reeds", double bell euphoniums, and "fifty mounted...
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    productions. Meredith Willson was inspired by his boyhood in Mason City, Iowa, to write and compose his first musical, The Music Man. Willson began developing...
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    Bix Beiderbecke (category Musicians from Iowa)
    Music during his lifetime. A native of Davenport, Iowa, Beiderbecke taught himself to play the cornet largely by ear, leading him to adopt a non-standard...
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    Karl King (category People from Fort Dodge, Iowa)
    the Iowa Band Law in 1921, which allowed cities to levy a local tax for maintenance of a band. He commemorated this with one of his marches, "Iowa Band...
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    "River City Brass Band to perform in Concert Course finale." Sioux City, Iowa: Sioux City Journal, April 25, 2002, p. 18 (subscription required). "'MMusic'...
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