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In 1891, while working as a physical education teacher at the YMCA International Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts he was asked to look for a way to relieve his students' boredom during indoor winter gym classes.
Inspired in part by a game he played as a child in Ontario called Duck-on-a-Rock, Naismith's basketball started December 15th 1891 with thirteen rules, a peach basket nailed to either end of the school's gymnasium, and two teams of nine players. On January 15, 1892 Naismith published the rules for basketball.
Basketball became popular in the United States very quickly, and spread to other countries as well. The sport was added to the Olympic programme at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin (although there had been a basketball competition in connection with the 1904 GamesThe 1904 Summer Olympics formally known as the Games of the III Olympiad were held in St. Louis, Missouri in the United States from July 1 to November 23, 1904. Chicago, Illinois won the original bid to host the games, but the organisation of the Louisian). There, Naismith handed out the gold medals to the American team, which beat Canada in the final.
Naismith became a professor at the University of KansasThe University of Kansas (often referred to as KU is an institution of higher learning located in Lawrence, Kansas. The University was founded in 1864. It had a fall 2003 enrollment of 29,272. The University's School of Medicine is located in Kansas City, and the school's first basketball coach. Kansas went on to develop one of the nation's most storied college basketball programs. Ironically, Naismith is the only Kansas coach to have a losing record during his tenure at the school.
In the late 1930sCenturies: 19th century 20th century 21st century Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s Years: 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 Events and trends Technology Jet engine invented Link Trainer invented Sc he played a role in what became the National Association of Intercollegiate BasketballThe National Association of Intercollegiate Basketball (NAIB) is the predecessor to the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) in the United States. It was established on March 10, 1940 in Kansas City, Missouri. The association got its s.
He was born in AlmonteThe former town of Almonte, Ontario, is now a ward of the town of Mississippi Mills, which was created on January 1 1998 by the merging of Almonte with the townships of Ramsay and Pakenham. Almonte is located 50 km south-west of Ottawa, Ontario, at latitu, OntarioOntario ( In Detail) ( In Detail) Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Loyal she began, loyal she remains Capital Toronto Largest City Toronto Area Total % fresh water 4th largest(2nd lgst prov. 1 076 395 kmē 14. 7% Population Total (2001) Density Rank, CanadaCanada historically the Dominion of Canada is the second-largest, and northernmost, country in the world. It is a decentralized federation of 10 provinces and 3 territories, governed as a constitutional monarchy, and formed in 1867 through an act of Confe, the older son of Scottish immigrants who had arrived there in 1852. Naismith was a graduate of McGill University in 1887, where he studied philosophy and the Presbyterian Theological College ( Montreal) in 1890. He also got a physical education degree from a YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891 and in 1898, he received a medical degree from Gross Medical College (which later merged into the University of Colorado).
Naismith married Maude Sherman in 1894. They had five children. Naismith became a naturalized American on May 4, 1925. After Maude's death in 1937, he remarried less than six months before his own death, in Lawrence, Kansas, of a cerebral hemorrhage. He is buried there alongside his first wife.
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