HISTORY OF BASKETBALL

HISTORY OF BASKETBALL

Dr. James Naismith is known world-wide as the inventor of Basketball. He was born in 1861 in
Ramsay township, near Almonte, Ontario, Canada. The concept of basketball was born from his
school days in the area where he played a simple child's game called duck-on-a-rock outside of his schoolhouse. The game had a purpose to knock a "duck" off the top of a large rock by throwing another rock at it. Naismith then went on to attend McGill University in Montreal, Quebec,Canada.

After serving as McGill's Athletic Director, he moved on to the YMCA Training School in
Springfield, Massachusetts, USA in 1891 where there the sport known as basketball was born. In
Springfield,
Naismith was then faced with the problem of finding a sport which was right for playing inside during the
Massachusetts winter. Naismith wanted to create a game of skill for the students instead of one that uses
only strength. He needed a game that could be played indoors in a small space. The first game was played with a soccer ball and two peach baskets used as baskets. At that time went a person made a basket the basket was called "goal" so in the following rules the word "goal" means the basket that was made.

Naismith devised a set of thirteen rules of Basketball:

1. The ball may be thrown in any direction with one or both hands.
2. The ball may be batted in any direction with one or both hands, but never with the fist.
3. A player cannot run with the ball. The player mu...

HISTORY OF BASKETBALL

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