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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 ...
[28] [29] (Some sources state the first "true" five-on-five intercollegiate match was a game in 1897 between Yale and Penn, because the Iowa team, that played Chicago in 1896, was composed of University of Iowa students, but did not officially represent the University of Iowa – rather being organized through a YMCA.) [28] By 1900 the game of ...
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.
YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organization based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries.It has nearly 90,000 staff, some 920,000 volunteers and 12,000 branches worldwide. [1]
The NCAA hosted its first women's national tournament in 1982, inviting 32 teams to compete in the inaugural tournament. The women's tournament ultimately expanded to 64 teams in 1994.
January 15 – James Naismith's rules for basketball are published for the first time in the Springfield YMCA International Training School's newspaper, in an article titled "A New Game." January 20 – The first official basketball game is played in the YMCA gymnasium in Springfield, Massachusetts. [citation needed] [dubious – discuss]
Bob Knight had a trait rarely, maybe never mentioned on pages like this. This man, revered his elders, in coaching and in life, like no one I ever observed.
The finalists in this Knockout Championship Tournament were Hoylake YMCA and London Polytechnic. The former winning the 1st Championships of England and Wales by 32 points to 21 points. Greater interest was taken in Basketball because of the incentive of the Championships and many more teams affiliated to ABBA the following year.