Basketball

Basketball

1.   Who invented Basketball? James Naismith

2.   Where? Springfield, Massachusetts

3.   When? 1891

4.   How? Dr. James Naismith was a Canadian physical education instructor

5.   Why? While working at the YMCA Training School

6.   What were the circumstances at the beginning? He wrote the original basketball rulebook, founded the University of Kansas basketball program, and lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904

7.   What was it like at the start? the players played nine versus nine, handled a soccer ball, not a basketball

8.   What types of shots were taken? instead of shooting at two hoops, the goals were a pair of peach baskets

9.   How is basketball different today than when it first started? The rules have changed a lot over the years, it has been modified and altered.

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