Margaret Howe (squash player)

{{Short description|American squash player (1897–1989)}} {{About|the squash player|the novelist|Margaret Howe (author)|5=}} {{Infobox person | name = Margaret Allen Howe | birth_date = {{Birth date|1897|5|02}} | death_date = {{Death date and age|1989|11|16|1897|05|02}} | burial_place = Old North Cemetery, Nantucket, Massachusetts, US | years_active = | known_for = US squash champion (1929) | spouse = William Francis Howe | children = William Francis Howe Jr., Peggy White and Betty Howe Constable }} '''Margaret Allen Howe''' (1897–1989) was a pioneer for Squash in America. She was born in Greenfield, Massachusetts. She won the U.S. Women's Squash Singles National Championship in 1929, 1932 and 1934 after giving birth to a son, William Francis Howe Jr., in 1922 and twin daughters (and future squash champions) Betty and Peggy in 1924.<ref name="time1959">Staff (March 2, 1959). [https://web.archive.org/web/20110201105937/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,892270,00.html The Howes & Squash] ''Time''</ref>

Her husband, William "Bill" Francis Howe Sr., encouraged her to play, and she played under the name Mrs. William F. Howe. In 1929, Howe organized and won the first sanctioned women's squash tournament in the United States.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/sports/othersports/16constable.html|title=Betty Constable, 83, Early Squash Star and Coaching Pioneer, Dies|last=Martin|first=Douglas|date=2008-09-15|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-11-16|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191116142046/https://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/16/sports/othersports/16constable.html|archive-date=16 November 2019|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

== Legacy == {{For|the main article|The Howe Cup}} In 1955, Virginia Griggs of New York City donated a permanent trophy to an annual women's 5-persons intercity tournament, thus dubbing the tournament The Howe Cup. The tournament still runs to this day in memory of Howe and her daughters.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ussquash.com/women/howe-cup/|title=US SQUASH {{!}} Howe Cup|last=|first=|date=|website=www.ussquash.com|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191116141953/https://www.ussquash.com/women/howe-cup/|archive-date=16 November 2019|access-date=2019-04-22}}</ref>

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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20081013203547/http://www.us-squash.org/ussquash/hall-of-fame-members.html United States Squash Hall of Fame]

{{DEFAULTSORT:Howe, Margaret Allen}} Category:American female squash players Category:1897 births Category:1989 deaths Category:20th-century American sportswomen