In 1891 a guy named James Naismith ( a Canadian physical education instructor) invented the game of basketball. He was working in a YMCA training school in Springfield, Massachusetts and had to come up with a game for troubled students over the cold winter months. He only had two weeks to come up with a game. Naismith decided to come up with a game of skill, finesse, and accuracy rather than just a game of strength. He was inspired by a game that he played as a little kid called duck on a rock, in which players had to throw a rock at a duck that is sitting on a ledge and try to knock the duck off it. The first game had only 13 rules, two peach baskets on opposite ends of the room that are placed 10 feet up, and a soccer ball.
In the first games of basketball, people could only move forward by passing the ball to a teammate. Dribbling was introduced to the game later. Players scored points by tossing a soccer ball into the peach baskets successfully. Once the ball is in the basket the players had to climb a ladder to get the ball. Baskets with holes on the bottom were only introduced in 1913.Here are some important dates of important basketball events and games. In 1959 James Naismith was introduced into the basketball hall of fame and is now called the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame. The first college basketball game was played on January 18th, 1896. It was when the University of Iowa hosted a game with the University of Chicago. The final score was Iowa 15 Chicago 12. March Madness began in 1939 when the tournament took place at the University of Illinois. The first time basketball was in the olympics was at Berlin, Germany in 1936. Those are some of the important parts of basketball and the details behind the game of basketball to make the game exciting and fun.
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“Who Invented Basketball?” Wonderopolis, 12 Feb. 2020,
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