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The first known U.S. college to field a basketball team against an outside opponent was Vanderbilt University, which played against the local YMCA in Nashville, Tennessee, on February 7, 1893. [27] The second recorded instance of an organized college basketball game was Geneva College 's game against the New Brighton YMCA on April 8, 1893, in ...
By 1892, basketball had grown so popular on campus that Dennis Horkenbach (editor-in-chief of The Triangle, the Springfield college newspaper) featured it in an article called "A New Game", [7] and there were calls to call this new game "Naismith Ball", but Naismith refused. [9] By 1893, basketball was introduced internationally by the YMCA ...
In 1891 James Naismith, a Canadian American, invented Basketball while studying at YMCA International Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts (later to be named Springfield College). Naismith had been asked to invent a new game in an attempt to interest pupils in physical exercise.
The June 1919 cover of Association Men, a YMCA publication War Relief YMCA A YMCA library in Charleston, South Carolina A YMCA in Huntington, West Virginia in 2022 In 1891, James Naismith , a Canadian American, invented basketball while studying at YMCA International Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts (later to be named Springfield ...
Basketball — a game invented in the US in 1891 as a safe but entertaining non-contact sport for the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) — has been a perennial favorite in Hong Kong for ...
December 21 – The first game of basketball is played at the Springfield YMCA Training School under the rules of James Naismith. [1] [2] [3] References
Olympic pictogram for basketball. Basketball is a team sport in which two teams, most commonly of five players each, opposing one another on a rectangular court, compete with the primary objective of shooting a basketball (approximately 9.4 inches (24 cm) in diameter) through the defender's hoop (a basket 18 inches (46 cm) in diameter mounted 10 feet (3.048 m) high to a backboard at each end ...
If casual American basketball fans didn’t already know this, then the world made it loud and clear in Paris: The United States has a ways to go before becoming a 3x3 powerhouse.