Basquetball

Basquetball
By: Salvador.
In December 1891, Canadian-born James Naismith, a physical education teacher at the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) training school, took a soccer ball and a peach basket into the gym and invented basketball. In 1893, James Naismith replaced the peach basket with iron hoops and a hammock-style basket. Ten years later came the open-ended nets oftoday. Before that, you had to retrieve your ball from the basket every time you scored.
James Naismith - Background
James Naismith was born in Ramsay township, near Almonte, Ontario, Canada and attended McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. After serving as McGill's Athletic Director, James Naismith moved on to work at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1891. The game ofbasketball was inspired by a children's game James Naismith knew called duck-on-a-rock, in which players throw a small rock at a "duck" placed on top of a large rock in an attempt to knock the "duck" off. While at Springfield, James Naismith invented basketball as a sport to play indoors during the cold Massachusetts winters. The first game of basketball was played with a soccer ball and two peachbaskets used as goals. After changing the peach baskets for open hoop nets, James Naismith soon wrote thirteen official rules for the game.
First College Basketball Game
The first ever college basketball game was played on January 18, 1896, when the University of Iowa invited student athletes from the new University of Chicago for an experimental game. Final score: Chicago 15, Iowa 12, a bitdifferent from the hundred-point scores of today.
In 1963, college games were first broadcast on national TV, but it wasn't until the 1980s that sports fans ranked basketball up there with football and baseball.



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Basketball was invented in December 1891 by the Canadian physical education teacher James Naismith. Naismith introduced the game when he was an instructor at the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) inSpringfield (Massachusetts), where he organized a hobby that considered appropriate for indoor play during winter. The game includes elements of football, soccer and hockey. The first soccer ball was used. Teams had nine players and the baskets were made of wood attached to the walls. Around 1897 were regulated teams of five players. The game spread rapidly throughout the United States, Canada andelsewhere, played by both men and women, also became a popular informal outdoor game. U.S. soldiers participating in World War II popularized the sport in many other countries. 

A large number of U.S. colleges adopted the game between 1893 and 1895. In 1934 we celebrated the first college games at Madison Square Garden in New York City and college basketball began to attract great interest. In the...