Hisory 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 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 …
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…addition to the creation of the sport, Naismith graduated as a medical doctor, primarily
interested in sports physiology and what we would today call sports science and as
Presbyterian minister, with a keen interest in philosophy and clean living. Naismith watched
his sport, introduced in many nations by the YMCA movement as early as 1893. Basketball
was introduced at the Berlin Olympics in 1936. Today basketball has grown to become one
of the world's most popular sports.
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