Naismith was in New York to attend a basketball doubleheader at Madison Square Garden, 48 years after he created the very game that he was watching.
The interview took place in New York on January 31, 1939, just months before Naismith died that November, aged 78. The interview took place in New York on January 31, 1939, just months before he died that November at age 78. He didn’t invent the game in Ontario, that would come when he was a physical education teacher at what is now Springfield College in Massachusetts.Ī University of Kansas professor has discovered what is believed to be the only audio recording of James Naismith, the man who invented the game of basketball. Naismith, who invented the sport in 1891, was born 30 years earlier, near the town of Almonte in Ontario, Canada. The inventor declined suggestions to call his new sport "Naismith ball," and by 1893, its popularity began to spread internationally through the YMCA movement.It was a short interview back in 1939 – not even three minutes long – but it is one that decades later has a larger historical significance than anyone may have imagined at the time. Using a soccer ball, the nine players on each side would pass (not dribble) the ball down court before taking a shot not at a hoop but at a peach basket 10 feet off the floor.
He posted 13 rules of his new game on a bulletin board, and his unenthusiastic class took to the court to give it a shot (or two) on Dec. While at the Springfield YMCA, Naismith was tasked with creating an indoor game that would provide the "athletic distraction" for rowdy students during the harsh New England winters.
After earning a bachelor's degree in physical education in 1888, Naismith took a job teaching physical education at the YMCA International Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. Born in Ontario, Canada, in 1861, Naismith was a talented athlete at McGill University in Montreal, playing Canadian football, lacrosse, rugby, soccer and gymnastics.
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