Basketball

Basketball is a highly well known sport in the nation. For more than a century, basketball has changed dramatically. Player, the rules, and many other things have changed a lot
Dr. James Naismith is best known as the creator of the sport basketball. After finishing his education at the age of 20, he became an instructor at the TMCA International Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. Here in 1891, he created a new sport called basketball.
While a professor at Springfield College, Naismith struggled with the concept for a new type of game to condition young students during the winter months after football had ended and the track and baseball seasons were a couple of months away. Gym classes at the time tended to consist with gymnastics and drills. One day Naismith took two eighteen bored young men and started to play a game. There were two teams and you tried to shoot the ball in the hoop. At the time the ball was a soccer ball and the hoops were too peach baskets. A...