The first basketball game

The First Basketball Game 

First Game History

... in 1891, the first basketball game was the real basketball game had to played today at what is now Springfield College. The game was invented by a Canadian, Dr. James Naismith, a versatile athlete, theologian and physical education and info instructor, who was considering "the time when Christians would recognize the true value of athletics." He designed basketball to occupy a class of unpleasant male students at the Springfield YMCA, who were bored with gyms and children's games in their gym class. 

The game attracted players and fans almost immediately. In 1936,basketball was included among sports at the Olympic Games and is now played in 170 countries. 

The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame opened in Springfield in 1968.Surprisingly, unlike most sports whose origins are somewhat obscure, being often the combination of other sports and developed gradually through time, a game of basketball has a very precise and fully known origin (the inventor He himself wrote an account after his death, "Sources and other readings" below). Even the date of the first game is known, on December 21, 1891.

Context

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James Naismith was born in 1861 in rural Ontario. Orphan at age eight, he lived with an uncle, helping with farm work and spending that free time he had with a group of local boys. They struggled, swung tree branches, and played "duck on the rock," a game in which a boy placed a stone on a large rock and kept his "duck" while others tried to knock it down Throwing stones. 

The incident made such an impression on Naismith that he committed himself to the idea that physical training could be a means of spreading a Christianity. After a graduating from McGill in 1887, Naismith graduated with a degree in theology. Seeking to combine his athletic talent with his call to ministry, he learned that the Christian Association of Young Men (YMCA) was developing "physical coaching programs to enhance interests in Bible study for the basketball season,for education and social well-being"

This game will later play an important role in the origin of basketball and its moves also.In a particularly competitive football match, Naismith had an epiphany that would change the direction of his life. He later remembered that the player beside him the basketball playoffs "encountered some issue, and, losing his disposition, created some remarks that, though powerful, are not printable. Component itself,the player whispered an apology. 

Sources

                                   Basketball, by James Naismith (University of Nebraska Press, 1996).

                         Cages To Jump Shots, by Robert W. Peterson (Oxford University Press, 1990).