In early December 1891, Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian physical education student and instructor at YMCA Training School[1] (today, Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied and at proper levels of fitness during the long New England winters. After rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot (3.05 m) elevated track. In contrast with modern basketball nets, this peach basket retained its bottom, so balls scored into the basket had to be poked out with a long dowel each time. A soccer ball was used to shoot goals. Whenever a person got the ball in the basket, they would give their team a point. Whichever team got the most points won the game.[2
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pre-north-american, at the least, there are/were both dutch and english version, at least, prolly more as apples are also big in regions of germany, france, eastern europe, et alia...
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fair enough. was i perhaps thinking captain kangaroo?
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dunno if true, but I have worked for several Y's and they have all said the same thing... points to ponder...
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a Y in canadia perhaps?
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from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball#History
In early December 1891, Dr. James Naismith, a Canadian physical education student and instructor at YMCA Training School[1] (today, Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied and at proper levels of fitness during the long New England winters. After rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot (3.05 m) elevated track. In contrast with modern basketball nets, this peach basket retained its bottom, so balls scored into the basket had to be poked out with a long dowel each time. A soccer ball was used to shoot goals. Whenever a person got the ball in the basket, they would give their team a point. Whichever team got the most points won the game.[2 ( ... )
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thanks sweetie... and you rock!!!
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pre-north-american, at the least, there are/were both dutch and english version, at least, prolly more as apples are also big in regions of germany, france, eastern europe, et alia...
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