James A. Naismith - Coach, Inventor - Biography.com James A. Naismith James Naismith invented the game of basketball in 1891. IN THESE GROUPS Famous People Who Died in United States Synopsis Born on November 6, 1861, James Naismith was a Canadian and American sports coach and innovator. He invented the game of basketball in 1891. He is also credited with designing the first football helmet. He penned the first basketball rulebook, and established the basketball program at University of Kansas. Naismith has been given numerous posthumous honors for his contributions to the world of sports. He died in Kansas on November 28, 1939. Fact Check We strive for accuracy and fairness. If you see something that doesn't look right, contact us ! Citation Information 1000+ images about James Naismith on Pinterest | Football, Basketball equipment and James d'arcy Forward November 6, 1961 – The U.S. government issues a stamp honoring the 100th birthday of James Naismith. Dr.

James Naismith (November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939) was a Canadian-American sports coach and innovator. He invented the sport of basketball in 1891 and is often credited with introducing the first football helmet. He wrote the original basketball rulebook, founded the University of Kansas basketball program, and lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904. See More Almonte Ontario | James Naismith Almonte Ontario James Naismith James Naismith Dr. James Naismith grew up on a farm just outside Almonte. Here’s an excerpt from the Wikipedia article about him. James Naismith (November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939) was a Canadian sports coach and innovator. He invented the sport of basketball in 1891 and is often credited with introducing the first football helmet.

He wrote the original basketball rulebook, founded the University of Kansas basketball program, and lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, as well as the birth of both the National Invitation Tournament (1938) and the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship (1939). Born in Canada, Naismith studied physical education in Montreal before moving to the United States, where he developed basketball in late 1891 while teaching at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts.[1] Naismith also studied medicine in Denver, taking his MD in 1898 before moving to the University of Kansas. After a decade (1898–1907) serving there as a faculty member and part-time basketball coach during the sport’s fledgling years, he became the Kansas Jayhawks’ athletic director. He became a U.S. citizen in 1925. Early years Naismith was born in 1861 in Ramsay Township (now part of Mississippi Mills, Ontario).

Struggling in school but gifted in farm labour, Naismith spent his days outside playing catch, hide-and-seek, or duck on a rock, a medieval game in which a person guards a large drake stone from opposing players, who try to knock it down by throwing smaller stones at it. To play duck on a rock most effectively, Naismith soon found out that a soft lobbing shot was far more effective than a straight hard throw, a thought which later proved essential for the invention of basketball. Orphaned early in his life, Naismith lived with his aunt and uncle for many years and attended grade school at Bennies Corners near Almonte. Then he enrolled in Almonte High School, from which he graduated in 1883. 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. Dr. Naismith’s only surviving child in 1982 also stated that his 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. Noted historian Curtis J.

Phillips has done extensive research on the subject. McGill University In the same year, Naismith entered McGill University in Montreal. Although described as a slight figure, standing 5 foot 10 ½ and listed at 168 pounds,[5] he was a talented and versatile athlete, representing McGill in Canadian football, lacrosse, rugby, soccer and gymnastics. He played center on the football team, introduced the first football helmet into regular play and won multiple Wicksteed medals for outstanding gymnastics performances. Naismith earned a BA in Physical Education (1888) and a Diploma at the Presbyterian College in Montreal (1890). From 1891 on, Naismith taught physical education and became the first McGill director of athletics, but then left Montreal to become a physical education teacher at the YMCA International Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. Springfield College: Invention of “Basket Ball” At Springfield YMCA, Naismith struggled with a rowdy class which was confined to indoor games throughout the harsh New England winter and thus was perpetually short-tempered. Under orders from Dr.

Luther Gulick, head of Springfield YMCA Physical Education, Naismith was given 14 days to create an indoor game that would provide an “athletic distraction”: Gulick demanded that it would not take up much room, could help its track athletes to keep in shape[6] and explicitly emphasized to “make it fair for all players and not too rough.” In his attempt to think up a new game, Naismith was guided by three main thoughts. Firstly, he analyzed the most popular games of those times (rugby, lacrosse, soccer, football, hockey and baseball); Naismith noticed the hazards of a ball and concluded that the big soft soccer ball was safest. Secondly, he saw that most physical contact occurred while running with the ball, dribbling or hitting it, so he decided that passing was the only legal option. Finally, Naismith further reduced body contact by making the goal unguardable, namely placing it high above the player’s heads. To score goals, he forced the players to throw a soft lobbing shot that had proven effective in his old favorite game duck on a rock. Naismith christened this new game “Basket Ball” and put his thoughts together in 13 basic rules.

The first game of “Basket Ball” was played in December 1891. In a handwritten report, Naismith described the circumstances of the inaugural match; in contrast to modern basketball, the players played nine versus nine, handled a soccer ball, not a basketball, and instead of shooting at two hoops, the goals were a pair of peach baskets: “When Mr. Stubbins brot [sic] up the peach baskets to the gym I secured them on the inside of the railing of the gallery. This was about 10 feet from the floor, one at each end of the gymnasium. I then put the 13 rules on the bulletin board just behind the instructor’s platform, secured a soccer ball and awaited the arrival of the class… The class did not show much enthusiasm but followed my lead… I then explained what they had to do to make goals, tossed the ball up between the two center men & tried to keep them somewhat near the rules. Most of the fouls were called for running with the ball, though tackling the man with the ball was not uncommon.” In contrast to modern basketball, the original rules did not include what is known today as the dribble.

Since the ball could only be moved up the court via a pass early players tossed the ball over their heads as they ran up court. Also, following each “goal” a jump ball was taken in the middle of the court. Both practices are obsolete in the rules of modern basketball. By 1892, basketball had grown so popular on campus that Dennis Horkenbach (editor-in-chief of The Triangle, the Springfield college newspaper) featured it in an article called “A New Game”,[3] and there were calls to call this new game “Naismith Ball”, but Naismith refused. By 1893, basketball was introduced internationally by the YMCA movement. From Springfield, Naismith went to Denver where he acquired a medical degree and in 1898 he joined the University of Kansas faculty at Lawrence, Kansas after coaching at Baker University. There is some evidence that Dr. Naismith borrowed components for the game of basketball from Lambert G. Will.[10] This evidence disputes the claim that Dr. Naismith was the sole inventor of the game.

A team photo shows Will’s team with a dated basketball before Naismith’s claim of having the first game.[11] University of Kansas The University of Kansas men’s basketball program officially began in 1898, following Naismith’s arrival, just six years after Naismith penned the sport’s first official rules. Naismith was not initially hired to coach basketball, but rather as a chapel director and physical education instructor.[12] In these early days, the majority of the basketball games were played against nearby YMCA teams, with YMCA’s across the nation having played an integral part in the birth of basketball. Other common opponents were Haskell Indian Nations University and William Jewell College. Under Naismith, the team played only two current Big 12 schools: Missouri (twice) and Kansas State (once). Naismith was, ironically, the only coach in the program’s history to have a losing record (55–60). However, Naismith coached Forrest “Phog” Allen, his eventual successor at Kansas,[14] who went on to join his mentor in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

When Allen became a coach himself and told him that he was going to coach basketball at Baker University in 1904, Naismith discouraged him: “You can’t coach basketball; you just play it.”[6] Instead, Allen embarked on a coaching career that would lead him to be known as “the Father of Basketball Coaching.” During his time at Kansas, Allen coached Dean Smith (1952 National Championship team) and Adolph Rupp (1922 Helms Foundation National Championship team). When Dean Smith retired as head Basketball coach at North Carolina he was the winningest coach in college basketball history, #2 was Adolph Rupp (Kentucky) and #3 was Allen. The three coaches have joined Naismith as members of the Basketball Hall of Fame. By the turn of the century, there were enough college teams in the East of the U.S. that the first intercollegiate competitions could be played out.[14] Although his sport continuously grew, Naismith long regarded his game as a curiosity and preferred gymnastics and wrestling as better forms of physical education.[14] However, basketball became a demonstration sport at the 1904 Games in St. Louis, USA.

As the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame reports, Naismith was also neither interested in self-promotion nor in the glory of competitive sports.[16] Instead, he was more interested in his physical education career, receiving an honorary PE Masters degree in 1910,[4] patrolled the Mexican border for four months in 1916 during World War I, travelled to France, published two books (“A Modern College” in 1911 and “Essence of a Healthy Life” in 1918) and took on American citizenship in 1925.[4] In 1935, the National Association of Basketball Coaches (created by Naismith’s pupil Phog Allen) collected money so that the 74-year old Naismith could witness the introduction of basketball into the official Olympic sports program of the 1936 Summer Olympic Games.[16] There, Naismith handed out the medals to three North American teams; United States, for the Gold Medal, Canada, for the Silver Medal, and Mexico, for their Bronze medal win.[17] During the Olympics, he was named the Honorary President of the International Basketball Federation.

When Naismith returned he commented that seeing the game played by many nations was the greatest compensation he could have received for his invention. In 1937, Naismith played a role in the formation of the National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball, which later became the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA). In his later years, Naismith became Professor Emeritus in Kansas and retired in 1937 at the age of 76. Including his years as coach, Naismith served as athletic director and faculty at the school for a total of almost 40 years. Naismith died in 1939 after he suffered a fatal brain hemorrhage and was buried in Lawrence, Kansas. Posthumously, his masterwork “Basketball — its Origins and Development” was published in 1941. In Lawrence, Kansas, James Naismith has a road named in his honour, Naismith Drive, which runs in front of Allen Fieldhouse (the official address of Allen Fieldhouse is 1651 Naismith Drive), the university’s basketball facility.

It is a separated, four-lane road that runs north and south from University Drive south to its end at 24th street, just south of the KU campus. The university also named the court in Allen Fieldhouse, James Naismith Court in his honour. Naismith Hall, a college residential dormitory, is located on the northeastern edge of 19th Street and Naismith Drive. James Naismith Basketball Inventor - Basketball91 by Admin | Jul 26, 2013 | History , Tips | 0 comments Dr. James Naismith was born on 6th November 1861, died on 28th November 1939). He was an American Sports coach and innovator born in Canada. In 1891 he invented the sport of basketball. He is often credited with introducing the first football helmet. The original basketball rule book that was found at the University of Kansas basketball program was written by Dr. James Naismith. In 1904, he lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport and later on in the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin became an official event.

Prior to moving in the United States, he studied Physical Education course in Montreal, Canada. In the late 1891, he developed basketball while teaching at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. Before moving to the University of Kansas he studied medicine in Denver taking his MD in 1898. He became the Kansas Jayhawks athletic director after serving as a faculty member and part-time basketball coach for a decade (1898-1907) in the University of Kansas. In 1925 Dr. James Naismith became a U.S. citizen in Lawrence, Kansas. Dr. James Naismith also had a significant contribution in the US Military. While serving as a National Guard chaplain with the First Kansas Infantry Regiment, his effort helped lowered the rate of disciplinary actions and especially increased morale among soldiers. He was a fraternity member with Sigma Phi Epsilon and Pi Gamma Mu. Discussing about Naismith’s spiritual beliefs, he was a Presbyterian Minister and also remembered as a Freemason. Born in now part of Mississippi Mills, Ontario called Ramsay Township back in 1861 to Scottish immigrants Margaret Young (b. 1833) and John Naismith (b.

1852). Both of his parents settled in Lanark County, Canada. Hi father worked as a saw hand after marrying, unfortunately the couple soon contracted typhoid fever and died when Dr. James Naismith was just 9 years old. Orphaned early in his life, he lived with his aunt and uncle for many years. He attended grade school at Bennies Corners near Almonte. He attended High School at Almonte High School in Almonte, Ontario, Canada where he graduated in 1883. Dr. James Naismith Married Maude Evelyn Sherman (b. 6 Sept 1870 – d. 4 Mar 1937) in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA. Dr.

James Naismith and Sherman had five children, to mention in order; Margaret Mason-Stanley (2 Jul 1895 – Oct 1976), Helen Carolyn-Dodd (21 Dec 1897 – 21 Aug 1980), John Edwin (3 Nov 1900 – 18 Dec 1986), Maude Ann-Dawe (22 Oct 1904 – Apr 1972), James Sherman (7 May 1913 – 6 May 1980). Following Maude Sherman’s death in 1937, Dr. James Naismith married his second wife Florence Kincaid on 11 June 1939. On 19 November of the same year of his second marriage, he suffered a major brain hemorrhage, nine days later he died in his home located at Lawrence, Kansas. Dr. James Naismith died at the age of 78. He was buried next to his first wife Sherman in Memorial Park Cemetery in Lawrence, Kansas.

His second wife Kincaid died at the age of 98 in 1977 and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery Beloit, Kansas with her first husband Dr. Frank Kincaid. As the inventor of this sport he has written the original 13 rules of basketball game . In 1959, he was an inaugural inductee for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, named in his honour in Springfield, Massachusetts. In the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, women basketball became an Olympic event following the 1936 Olympic introduction to make athletes. Apart from the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, Dr. James Naismith was also inducted to various honours to name a few, the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame, Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame, Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame, Ontario Sports Legends Hall of Fame, Kansas State Sports Hall of Fame, McGill University Sports Hall of Fame, FIBA Hall of Fame. Today, more than 300 million people playing basketball worldwide, ranking it as one of the most popular team sports.

Basketball has produced some of the most-admired athletes in history, continually influencing sports fanatics. Submit a Comment The Man Who Invented the Game of Basketball by Edwin Brit Wyckoff · OverDrive: eBooks, audiobooks and videos for libraries Biography & Autobiography Juvenile Nonfiction Sports & Recreations Dr. James Naismith was a Canadian-American sports coach and innovator. He invented the sport of basketball in 1891 and is often credited with introducing the first football helmet. He wrote the original basketball rulebook, founded the University of Kansas basketball program, and lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, as well as the birth of both the National Invitation Tournament (1938) and the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship (1939). James Naismith (Coach) - Pics, Videos, Dating, & News James Naismith Male Born Nov 6, 1861 James Naismith was a Canadian sports coach and innovator. He invented the sport of basketball in 1891 and is often credited with introducing the first football helmet.

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The football field has been at 100 yards long for decades, and a soccer penalty kick is still, to this day, taken from a spot roughly 18' Celebrate Ramsay's 175th Birthday At Museum Exhibit Your Ottawa Region Google News - Aug 20, 2011 'âA lot (of people) know about R. Tait McKenzie and Dr. <mark>James Naismith</mark>,â said Brian Tackaberry, curator of the North Lanark Regional Museum, 647 River Rd., in Appleton. But did you know that William Neilson, founder of Neilson ice cream and milk company' Learn about the memorable moments in the evolution of James Naismith. CHILDHOOD 1861 Birth Naismith was born in 1861 in Almonte (now part of Mississippi Mills), Ontario, Canada to parents who had immigrated from Scotland. … Read More He 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. In 1982 Dr.

Naismith's only living child stated that his father never had the middle initial "A". The Basketball Hall of Fame also clarifies this as do other members of his family and personal friends of his. Noted historian Curtis J. Phillips has done extensive research on the subject.<br /><br /> Struggling in school but gifted in farm labor, Naismith spent his days outside playing catch, hide-and-seek, or duck on a rock, a medieval game in which a person guards a large drake stone from opposing players, who try to knock it down by throwing smaller stones at it. To play duck on a rock most effectively, Naismith soon found that a soft lobbing shot was far more effective than a straight hard throw, a thought that later proved essential for the invention of basketball. Orphaned early in his life, Naismith lived with his aunt and uncle for many years and attended grade school at Bennies Corners near Almonte. Read Less TWENTIES 1883 21 Years Old Then he enrolled in Almonte High School, in Almonte, Ontario, from which he graduated in 1883.

… Read More In the same year, Naismith entered McGill University in Montreal. Although described as a slight figure, standing 5 foot 10 Â½ and listed at 168 pounds, he was a talented and versatile athlete, representing McGill in Canadian football, lacrosse, rugby, soccer and gymnastics. He played center on the football team, and made himself some padding to protect his ears. It was for personal use, not team use. He won multiple Wicksteed medals for outstanding gymnastics performances. Naismith earned a BA in Physical Education (1888) and a Diploma at the Presbyterian College in Montreal (1890). Read Less Show Less Born in Canada to Scottish immigrants, Naismith studied physical education at McGill University in Montreal before moving to the United States, where he developed basketball in late 1891 while teaching at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. … Read More After receiving his MD in Denver in 1898, Naismith moved to the University of Kansas, later becoming the Kansas Jayhawks' athletic director.

Read Less From 1891 on, Naismith taught physical education and became the first McGill director of athletics, but then left Montreal to become a physical education teacher at the YMCA International Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. … Read More At Springfield YMCA, Naismith struggled with a rowdy class that was confined to indoor games throughout the harsh New England winter and thus was perpetually short-tempered. Under orders from Dr. Luther Gulick, head of Springfield YMCA Physical Education, Naismith was given 14 days to create an indoor game that would provide an "athletic distraction": Gulick demanded that it would not take up much room, could help its track athletes to keep in shape and explicitly emphasized to "make it fair for all players and not too rough."<br /><br /> In his attempt to think up a new game, Naismith was guided by three main thoughts. Firstly, he analyzed the most popular games of those times (rugby, lacrosse, soccer, football, hockey, and baseball); Naismith noticed the hazards of a ball and concluded that the big soft soccer ball was safest.

Secondly, he saw that most physical contact occurred while running with the ball, dribbling or hitting it, so he decided that passing was the only legal option. Finally, Naismith further reduced body contact by making the goal unguardable, namely placing it high above the player's heads. To score goals, he forced the players to throw a soft lobbing shot that had proven effective in his old favorite game duck on a rock. Naismith christened this new game "Basket Ball" and put his thoughts together in 13 basic rules. Read Less THIRTIES 1894 32 Years Old … In December, 2010, the original rules of basketball written by James Naismith in 1891, considered to be basketball's founding document, was auctioned at Sotheby's in New York. Josh Swade, a University of Kansas alumnus and basketball enthusiast, went on a crusade in 2010 to persuade moneyed alumni to considering bidding on and hopefully winning the document at auction to gift it to the University of Kansas. Swade eventually persuaded David G.

Booth, a billionaire investment banker and KU alumnus, and his wife Suzanne Booth to commit to bidding at the auction. The Booths won the bidding and purchased the document for a record $4,338,500 USD, the most ever paid for a sports memorabilia item, and gifted the document to the University of Kansas. Swade's project and eventual success are chronicled in a 2012 ESPN 30 for 30 documentary "There's No Place Like Home" and in a corresponding book, "The Holy Grail of Hoops: One Fan's Quest to Buy the Original Rules of Basketball". The University of Kansas constructed an $18 million building named the Debruce Center, which houses the rules and opened in March 2016. <br /><br />James Naismith was the second child of Margaret and John Naismith, two Scottish immigrants. His mother, Margaret Young, was born in 1833 and immigrated as the fourth of 11 children to Lanark County, Canada in 1852.

His father, John Naismith, was born in 1833, left Europe when he was 18, and also settled down in Lanark County. Read Less On June 20, 1894, Naismith married Maude Evelyn Sherman (September 6, 1870 â March 4, 1937) in Springfield, MA, USA. … Read More The couple had five children: Margaret Mason (Stanley) (July 2, 1895 â October 1976), Helen Carolyn (Dodd) (December 21, 1897 â August 21, 1980), John Edwin (November 3, 1900 â December 18, 1986), Maude Ann (Dawe) (October 22, 1904 â April 1972) and James Sherman (May 7, 1913 â May 6, 1980). He was a member of the Pi Gamma Mu and Sigma Phi Epsilon fraternities.

Naismith was a Presbyterian minister, and was also remembered as a Freemason. Read Less Show Less … By 1892, basketball had grown so popular on campus that Dennis Horkenbach (editor-in-chief of The Triangle, the Springfield college newspaper) featured it in an article called "A New Game", and there were calls to call this new game "Naismith Ball", but Naismith refused. By 1893, basketball was introduced internationally by the YMCA movement. Read Less From Springfield, Naismith went to Denver where he acquired a medical degree and in 1898 he joined the University of Kansas faculty at Lawrence, Kansas after coaching at Baker University. … Read More The family of Lambert G. Will has claimed that Dr. Naismith borrowed components for the game of basketball from Will to dispute Naismith's sole creation of the game, citing alleged photos and letters. Read Less The University of Kansas men's basketball program officially began in 1898, following Naismith's arrival, just six years after Naismith drafted the sport's first official rules. … Read More Naismith was not initially hired to coach basketball, but rather as a chapel director and physical education instructor.

In these early days, the majority of the basketball games were played against nearby YMCA teams, with YMCAs across the nation having played an integral part in the birth of basketball. Other common opponents were Haskell Indian Nations University and William Jewell College. Under Naismith, the team played only one current Big 12 school: Kansas State (once). Naismith was, ironically, the only coach in the program's history to have a losing record (55â60). However, Naismith coached Forrest "Phog" Allen, his eventual successor at Kansas, who went on to join his mentor in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Read Less FORTIES Show Less … James Naismith (November 6, 1861 â November 28, 1939) was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, chaplain, sports coach and innovator. He invented the sport of basketball in 1891. He wrote the original basketball rulebook and founded the University of Kansas basketball program.

Read Less Naismith lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, as well as the birth of the National Invitation Tournament (1938) and the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship (1939). When Allen became a coach himself and told him that he was going to coach basketball at Baker University in 1904, Naismith discouraged him: "You can't coach basketball; you just play it." … Read More Instead, Allen embarked on a coaching career that would lead him to be known as "the Father of Basketball Coaching." During his time at Kansas, Allen coached Dean Smith (1952 National Championship team) and Adolph Rupp (1922 Helms Foundation National Championship team). Allen, Smith and Rupp have joined Naismith as members of the Basketball Hall of Fame.<br /><br /> By the turn of the century, there were enough college teams in the East of the U.S. that the first intercollegiate competitions could be played out.

Although his sport continuously grew, Naismith long regarded his game as a curiosity and preferred gymnastics and wrestling as better forms of physical education. However, basketball became a demonstration sport at the 1904 Games in St. Louis. As the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame reports, Naismith was also neither interested in self-promotion nor in the glory of competitive sports. Read Less 1910 48 Years Old Instead, he was more interested in his physical education career, receiving an honorary PE Masters degree in 1910, patrolled the Mexican border for four months in 1916, traveled to France, published two books (A Modern College in 1911 and Essence of a Healthy Life in 1918). LATE ADULTHOOD 1925 63 Years Old He took American citizenship in 1925.

1935 73 Years Old In 1935, the National Association of Basketball Coaches (created by Naismith's pupil Phog Allen) collected money so that the 74-year-old Naismith could witness the introduction of basketball into the official Olympic sports program of the 1936 Summer Olympic Games. … Read More There, Naismith handed out the medals to three North American teams: United States, for the gold medal, Canada, for the silver medal, and Mexico, for their bronze medal win. During the Olympics, he was named the honorary president of the International Basketball Federation. When Naismith returned he commented that seeing the game played by many nations was the greatest compensation he could have received for his invention. Read Less James Naismith James Naismith Email James Naismith (November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939) was a Canadian and naturalized American sports coach and innovator. Naismith invented the sport of basketball in 1891 and is often credited with introducing the first football helmet.

Naismith wrote the original basketball rulebook, founded the University of Kansas basketball program, and lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event in 1936. Naismith's contributions to basketball have earned him several posthumous enshrinements, such as in the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame, the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame, the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, the Ontario Sports Hall of Fame, the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame, the McGill University Sports Hall of Fame, the Kansas State Sports Hall of Fame and the FIBA Hall of Fame. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame carries his name. Springfield College: Invention of "Basket Ball" At Springfield YMCA, Naismith struggled with a rowdy class which was confined to indoor games throughout the harsh New England winter and thus was perpetually short-tempered. Under orders from Dr.

Luther Gulick, head of Springfield YMCA Physical Education, Naismith was given 14 days to create an indoor game that would provide an "athletic distraction": Gulick demanded that it would not take up much room, could help its track athletes to keep in shape and explicitly emphasized to "make it fair for all players and not too rough". In his attempt to think up a new game, Naismith was guided by three main thoughts. Firstly, he analyzed the most popular games of those times (rugby, lacrosse, soccer, football, hockey and baseball); Naismith noticed the hazards of a small fast ball and concluded that the big soft soccer ball was safest. Secondly, he saw that most physical contact occurred while running with the ball, dribbling or hitting it, so he decided that passing was the only legal option. Finally, Naismith further reduced body contact by making the goal unguardable, namely placing it high above the player's heads. To score goals, he forced the players to throw a soft lobbing shot that had proven effective in his old favorite game duck on a rock. Naismith christened this new game "Basket Ball" and put his thoughts together in 13 basic rules.

The first game of "Basket Ball" was played in December 1891. In a handwritten report, Naismith described the circumstances of the inaugural match; in contrast to modern basketball, the players played nine versus nine, handled a soccer ball, not a basketball, and instead of shooting at two hoops, the goals were a pair of peach baskets: "When Mr. Stubbins brought up the peach baskets to the gym I secured them on the inside of the railing of the gallery. This was about 10 feet from the floor, one at each end of the gymnasium. I then put the 13 rules on the bulletin board just behind the instructor's platform, secured a soccer ball and awaited the arrival of the class... The class did not show much enthusiasm but followed my lead... I then explained what they had to do to make goals, tossed the ball up between the two center men & tried to keep them somewhat near the rules. Most of the fouls were called for running with the ball, though tackling the man with the ball was not uncommon." In contrast to modern basketball, the original rules did not include what is known today as the dribble.

Since the ball could only be moved up the court via a pass early players tossed the ball over their heads as they ran up court. Also, following each "goal" a jump ball was taken in the middle of the court. Both practices are obsolete in the rules of modern basketball. By 1892, basketball had grown so popular on campus that "The Triangle", the Springfield college newspaper, featured it in an article called "A New Game", and there were calls to call this new game "Naismith Ball", but Naismith refused. By 1893, basketball was introduced internationally by the YMCA movement. From Springfield, Naismith went to Denver where he acquired a medical degree and in 1898 he joined the University of Kansas faculty at Lawrence, Kansas. Read 10390 times Last modified on Tuesday, 22 April 2014 13:08 The Man Who Invented the Game of Basketball: The Genius of James Naismith Genius Inventors and Their Great Ideas: Amazon.es: Edwin Brit Wyckoff: Libros en idiomas extranjeros DescripciÃ³n del producto Reseña del editor Dr.

James Naismith was a Canadian-American sports coach and innovator. He invented the sport of basketball in 1891 and is often credited with introducing the first football helmet. He wrote the original basketball rulebook, founded the University of Kansas basketball program, and lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, as well as the birth of both the National Invitation Tournament (1938) and the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship (1939). No es necesario ningÃºn dispositivo Kindle. DescÃ¡rgate una de las apps de Kindle gratuitas para comenzar a leer libros Kindle en tu smartphone, tablet u ordenador. Apple

Question: Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian-born American sports coach and innovator, invented which sport in 1891?
Answer: Basketball