Talk:James Naismith

message: Naismith lived in Holyoke, Massachusetts when he worked as a football coach for Springfield College, and invented Basketball.  Holyoke, Massachusetts laudes being the "Home of Volleyball", and some also claim that Naismith invented Basketball at home not at work!!! rmac1954@iwon.com  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rmac1954 (talk • contribs) 20:51, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Holyoke, Massachusetts 

message: Did Naismith really have an MD?  Those letters are after his name, but there's nothing in the bio about him having attended medical school or worked as a physician. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.228.97.28 (talk) 21:29, 7 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  MD? 

message: Edited "Coaching Career" to reflect that Dean Smith and Adolph Rupp are not THE two winningest, but two OF the winningest coaches, now that Bobby Knight has overtaken Adolph Rupp's spot for #2.  Now Smith and Rupp are #1 and #3, respectively, until Bobby Knight probably breaks Dean's record in a couple weeks. Tentonbricks 01:51, 24 December 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Winningest coaches changed 

message: I have heard from multiple sources that it is true that Naismith was affiliated with Sigma Phi Epsilon; however, according to this article Naismith graduated from McGill, which does not have a chapter of Sigma Phi Epsilon chapter, nor does any other university in Canada. Does anyone have any input on this? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.51.107.70 (talk) 23:32, 20 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Sigma Phi Epsilion affiliation 

message: Could his name somehow be changed so that it doesn't include the middle initial "A"?  James Naismith never had a middle name and never signed his name with the "A" initial.  The "A" was added by someone in the administration at the University of Kansas. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 150.243.32.181 (talk) 19:34, 10 May 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I interviewed Dr. Naismith's only surviving child at that time -1982 - and she too stated that her father never had a middle initial "A". The Basketball Hall of Fame also clarifies this as does other members of his family and personal friends of his. So why does Wikipedia continue to have it as Dr James A Naismith when using a wrong reference?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.65.80.121 (talk) 04:53, 3 March 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Middle initial "A" 

message: The sentence "Even Naismith felt that it was appropriate to modify the rules somewhat to account for the delicate nature of women." was changed on account of being POV, and rightly so. However, "Naismith felt that it was appropriate to modify the rules somewhat to account for his perception of women." is a garden path sentence -- it ascribes to Naismith an awareness of his own perception of women, which is not really the point. I took the sentence out altogether -- I think that either the grounds on which one would modify a sport's rules for women are obvious from the historical context, or they should be described in more detail -- bearing in mind that the article is about James Naismith and if opinions are ascribed to him, they should be sourced. Matuszek 19:36, 3 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Or was it?  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 41.162.184.66 (talk) 16:37, 17 September 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Women's rules 

message: This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 08:13, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  WikiProject class rating

message: Is this a joke?  The word gymnasium is derived from James Naismith's name in honor of him??? C'mon, and his bother, John Arena built the first modern basketball venue?  haha!  Someone's got an active imagination and is really bored.  March 2008  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.148.82.197 (talk) 17:36, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Legacy Section 

message: Shouldn't there be an infobox rather than just a picture?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.158.117.220 (talk) 00:40, 4 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Infobox 

message: This article completely ignores how, in inventing basketball, James Naismith worked with Luther Gulick  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Mejari (talk • contribs) 23:55, 20 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Luther Gulick 

message: I have just rewritten the article from scratch and hope to make it an good article. Help and constructive criticism are appreciated. Onomatopoeia (talk) 22:04, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Big rewrite for [[WP:GAC]]

message: Dean Smith could not have been coached directly by Naismith unless he was done so at age 8. Dean Smith was born February 28, 1931. Naismith died November 28, 1939.
Here is the reference to support that assertion: COLLEGE YEARS, 1949-53   —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.156.90.37 (talk) 02:24, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: The article is discussing Phog Allen at that point, who was Naismith's protege at Kansas. Ryan2845 (talk) 02:40, 24 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Naismith Dean Smith's coach? 

message: I notice the reference for this quote is a 2005 news article where the author states this was a quote, but gives no reference. I've read a lot about Naismith and lot of his own quotes through the years, but I've never heard of nor read this one before. Does anyone have the original source? Like when and where he said it and who quoted him as saying it or where this quote was originally published?Kmanblue (talk) 17:55, 26 August 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: I just googled the sentence and found this article: . I see no date of publication on it, but it uses verbatim the sentence that the 2005 article attributes to Naismith without presenting it as a quotation. It does, however, give as a direct quotation of something Naismith said in a speech in 1936 the following: "Basketball really had its beginning in Indiana, which remains today in the center of the sport." It would seem that the writer of the 2005 article (or someone else in between) has mistaken the more pithy paraphrase of that sentiment that may be just a modern journalist's creation. 99.192.48.135 (talk) 14:19, 15 September 2010 (UTC)

text: Further googling shows that Naismith said "Basketball really had its beginning in Indiana, which remains today in the center of the sport" in a speech at the Annual Invitational Dinner of the Physical Education Department of the Y.M.C.A. at Indianapolis, Indiana, March 27, 1936. The source cited for this is Hoosier Hysteria:  A History of Indiana High School Basketball by Herb Schwomeyer (Greenfield, Indiana, 1970, pgs. 3, 5, 6, 11, 14, 15, and 16). The (undated) article I cited above clearly gets its information from this book, as it mentions the book in the text and the article title comes from the book title. 99.192.48.135 (talk) 14:40, 15 September 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: Thanks for that info. Now I wonder if it's possible for someone to get a copy of his speech from that night in 1936? Or even if there is a copy somewhere. Kmanblue (talk) 02:25, 22 September 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  ''Basketball may have been born in Massachusetts, but it grew up in Indiana.'' quote 

message: Interesting news; probably has some good info that could be added to the article: http://espn.go.com/mens-college-basketball/story/_/id/14375344/kansas-researcher-finds-rare-audio-basketball-inventor-james-naismith Gmporr (talk) 01:41, 16 December 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  Audio recording of Naismith discovered in November 2015 

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message: Are these correct? Born 1861, was graduated from HS in '83 at about 22, and then college in '88 at about age 27?
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thread_title: Educational Dates

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message: Curious that the middle initial - - arguably, of no importance whatsoever - - garnered two sentences, but, there is no mention of the very important fact that the bottom of the original "basket" was CLOSED, thus, forcing the need to have someone on a ladder or perch to get the ball out of the basket! The hole was added, so to speak, a couple of years, later! (ref: https://dunkorthree.com/james-naismith-basketball-history/) Skaizun (talk) 13:31, 18 July 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Middle initial, but no mention of bottom of basket being closed! 

message: please fix description to state. 
Province of Ontario
Canada
And what is the Canada West thing. Its central Canada. 184.147.198.43 (talk) 16:31, 29 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  Province of Canada??