JIGSAW PUZZLE

AIRED: Season 1, Episode 3
THE DETECTIVES: Wes Cowan and Elyse Luray
THE PLACE: Worcester, Massachusetts

THE CASE:

Were women playing contact sports in the late part of the 19th century?

That is the question asked by Bob Armstrong of Worcester, Massachusetts.

A quirky jigsaw puzzle depicting women in the midst of a game of rugby or football has led to a History Detectives investigation, which begins with a visit to a jigsaw puzzle expert and continues with a sports historian, a magazine expert and finally to the Society for the Preservation of New England's Antiquities.

Will the History Detectives be able to put the pieces together once and for all?

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