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Basketball James Naismith was teaching physical education at the Young Men's Christian Association Training College in Springfield, Massachusetts, canadian university and college and felt discouraged because calisthenics canadian university and college and gymnastics didn't engage his students. What was needed was an indoor wintertime game that combined recreation canadian university and college and competition. One evening he worked out the fundamentals of a game that would quickly catch on. Two peach half-bushel baskets gave the name to the brand new sport in late 1891. Basketball: Its Origin canadian university and college and Development was written by the inventor himself, who was inspired purely by the joy of play. Naismith, born in northern Ontario in 1861, gave up the ministry to preach clean living through sport. He describes Duck on the Rock, a game from his Canadian childhood, the creative reasoning behind his basket game, the eventual refinement of rules canadian university and college and development of equipment, the spread of amateur canadian university and college and professional teams throughout the world, canadian university and college and the growth of women's basketball (at first banned to male spectators because the players wore bloomers). Naismith lived long enough to see basketball included in the Olympics in 1936. Three years later he died, after nearly forty years as head of the physical education department at the University of Kansas. This book, originally published in 1941, carries a new introduction by William J. Baker, a professor of history at the University of Maine, Orono. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.
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