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Date Submitted: 05/03/2001 12:52:48
Category: / Entertainment / Movies & Film
Length: 1 pages (304 words)
Category: / Entertainment / Movies & Film
Length: 1 pages (304 words)
Basketball, a game that started with 18 men in a YMCA gymnasium in Springfield, Mass., has
grown into a game that more than 300 million people play worldwide. The man who created this
instantly successful sport was Dr. James Naismith. Under orders from Dr. Luther Gulick, head of
Physical Education at the School for Christian Workers. Naismith had 14 days to create an indoor
game that would provide an "athletic distraction" for a rowdy class through the brutal …
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…by the
National Association of Basketball Coaches (NABC) to witness basketball become an Olympic
sport at the 1936 Games held in Berlin. Naismith became famous for creating the game of
basketball, a stroke of genius that never brought him fame or fortune during his lifetime, but
enormous recognition following his passing in 1939. For his historic invention, Naismith's name
adorns the world's only Basketball Hall of Fame, a tribute that forever makes James Naismith
synonymous with basketball.
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