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History Of Basketball - College Essay

History Of Basketball

Who is known world-wide as the inventor of basketball? His name is Dr.
James Naismith, he was born in 1861 in Almonte, Ontario. Most people wonder
were a young man would think of a game like basketball. The concept of
basketball was born from his school days in the area where he played a simple
child's game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse. The game
involved attempting to knock a "duck" off the top of a large rock by tossing
another rock at it.

Naismith went on to attend McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. In 1891
(after serving as McGill's Athletic Director) Naismith moved on to the YMCA
Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts where the sport of ...

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used as goals.

Naismith made a set of thirteen rules for his new "basketball" game:

1. The ball may be thrown in any direction with one or both hands.

2. The ball may be batted in any direction with one or both hands, but never
with the fist.

3. A player cannot run with the ball. The player must throw it from the spot on
which he catches it, allowance to be made for a man running at good speed.

4. The ball must be held in or between the hands. The arms or body must not be
used for holding it.

5. No shouldering, holding, pushing, striking or tripping in any way of an
opponent. The first infringement of this rule by any person shall count as a
foul; the second shall disqualify him until the next goal is made or, if there
was evident intent to injure the person, for the whole of the game. No
substitution shall be allowed.

6. A foul is striking at the ball with the fist, violations of Rules 3 and 4
and such as described in Rule 5.

7. If either side make three ...

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