History of Basketball


Who is known world-wide as the inventor of basketball? His name is Dr.
James Naismith, he was born in 1861 in Almonte, Ontario. Most people wonder
were a young man would think of a game like basketball. The concept of
basketball was born from his school days in the area where he played a simple
child's game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse. The game
involved attempting to knock a "duck" off the top of a large rock by tossing
another rock at it.

Naismith went on to attend McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. In 1891
(after serving as McGill's Athletic Director) Naismith moved on to the YMCA
Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts where the sport of basketball was
born. In Springfield, Naismith was faced with several problems. One problem was
making a sport that was suitable for play inside during the Massachusetts winter
for the students at the School for Christian Workers. Naismith wanted to create
a game of skill......

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