Basketball Inventor
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Basketball inventor. A brief history of basketball how when the game was invented more basketball was invented by james naismith in springfield massachusetts. When was basketball invented. The only major sport strictly of u s.
The word of a new game spread so fast that a few weeks after the first game all the other ymcas has already began playing it. John naismith margaret young. The history of 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.
James naismith wrote the sport s original 13 rules as part of a december 1891 class assignment at a young men. The year was 1891 and as the story goes naismith was asked to come up with an indoor game that offered fewer injuries than classic american gridiron football. The same year he left canada for springfield massachusetts he invented the game of basketball.
It is not the evolution from an ancient game or another sport and the inventor is well known. Essence of a healthy life in 1918. Mcgill university presbyterian college ymca training school gross medical college m d.
Origin of the sport. Naismith was born in almonte ontario and educated at mcgill university and presbyterian college in montreal. November 28 1939 in lawrence kansas.
Basketball is a relatively new sport invented in 1891. Basketball is the only major american sport with a clearly identifiable inventor. Naismith was a 31 year old graduate student when he created the indoor sport to keep athletes indoors during the winters.
Inventor of the game of basketball. November 6 1861 in almonte ontario province of canada. James naismith was the canadian born physical education instructor who inspired by a teaching assignment and his own childhood invented basketball in 1891.
Basketball was invented in december 1891 by canadian james w. The game became established fairly quickly and grew very popular as the 20th century. For that first game of basketball in 1891 naismith used as goals two.
Naismith was born in 1861 in ramsay township ontario canada. He wrote the original basketball rule book and founded the university of kansas basketball program. After the new game was born in the winter of 1891 it becomes an instant success.
A modern college in 1911. It has now grown into one of the most popular sports in the united states.
