Proverbs CH 1

The Chronicle of Basketball


Have you ever wondered how the game Basketball was started? How

the rules were incorporated? Or maybe you've watched a game and didn't

understand how it is played. Well, I am going to inform you about these

following topics and much, much, more.



It started in 1891. Luther Gulick, the chairman of the physical

education department in Springfeild, Massachusetts, instructed Dr. James

Naismith, a college Physical Education teacher to invent an indoor winter

game to keep the school's athletes in good physical shape. With an ordinary

soccer ball and two peach baskets fastened to the balcony railing on

opposite ends of the gym which was set originally at ten feet high was the standard

for play. The early inventions of the soccer ball and peach baskets soon lead way

for better subsequent tools which would proliferate the play of the game. In 1906,

the peach basket was replaced by a metal rim with ...