Basketball History

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Basketball was created in 1891 by James Naismith, a Canadian and physical education teacher at Springfield College in Massachusetts (then known as the International YMCA Training School).

The originator of basketball was James Naismith who, after graduating in theology from Presbyterian College in Montreal, signed up to study physical education at Springfield College with Luther Halsey Gulik (recognized as the "father of physical education").

Naismith drew up the thirteen basic rules (although the main ones had been written earlier) that described how to play the game, how to move the ball, how to score and what was considered a foul. He assembled the students to form teams that were assigned three centers, three forwards and three guards for each group.

Someone suggested calling the new discipline "Naismith game", but after witnessing the game they saw that the ball and baskets stood out, so they chose to call it "basketball". The YMCA played a very important role in the spread of the sport in the United States and Canada.

In the rest of the world, it did not take much longer to become known. In 1983 the first basketball game was organized in Montmartre, Paris, and later basketball games were organized in China, India and Japan.

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