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James Naismith invented basketball in 1891 at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. Basketball began with its invention in 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts , by Canadian physical education instructor James Naismith as a less injury-prone sport than football.
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.
Naismith invented the game of basketball and wrote the original 13 rules of this sport; [37] for comparison, the NBA rule book today features 66 pages. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, is named in his honor, and he was an inaugural inductee in 1959. [ 37 ]
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
The team comprised 18 players who were studying in Springfield, Massachusetts, [2] to become executive secretaries of the YMCA and who, as part of their coursework, studied physical education with Naismith, who is said to have invented the game to teach teamwork skills to his charges. [3]
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.
He met James Naismith, inventor of basketball, while Morgan was studying at Springfield College in 1892. Like Naismith, Morgan pursued a career in Physical Education at the YMCA . Influenced by Naismith and basketball, in 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts , Morgan invented "Mintonette" a less vigorous team sport more suitable for older members of ...
The men’s basketball teams at Tennessee State in a three-season span from 1956 through 1959 were nearly unbeatable and somehow largely unnoticed. The AP poll has had a simple mandate over its 75 ...