Many of it’s nearly two thousand undergrads at Springfield College are away for the summer break. But one lone figure remains ...

Dr. James Naismith: Birth, Early Life and Education Dr. James Naismith was born on 6 November 1861 in Almonte, Ontario to two Scottish immigrants -- Margaret Young (Mother) and John Naismith (Father).

The Early Life of Dr. James Naismith James Naismith was born on November 6, 1861 in Almonte, Ont. A small lumber town in the midst of the Canadian wilderness, Almonte was not an easy place to live.

On Jan. 15, 1892, one year after he invented the game of basketball, Naismith announced the game and its rules in the Springfield College school newspaper "The Triangle," according to a biography ...

Later in 1891, Naismith, under ‘orders’ from Dean Gulick to come up with a new game that could be played indoors, invented the game of basketball (Stagg would help develop the game ...

That’s why he added a rule barring them from running with the ball. That was in 1891. On Jan. 31, 1939, Naismith was at Madison Square Garden to watch the sport he invented.

Having studied James Naismith while researching for his biography, I got a sense of his thinking. My opinion is that he would not want to see the height of the goal changed, for either men or women.

And working at KU, of course, Naismith history is everywhere. Zogry said he first saw a reference to the radio interview in a biography by Bernice Larson Webb, “The Basketball Man: James ...

Having studied James Naismith while researching for his biography, I got a sense of his thinking. My opinion is that he would not want to see the height of the goal changed, for either men or women.

James Naismith, the Canadian-American who invented the game of basketball, was celebrated with a Google Doodle on Friday. Naismith, who invented the sport in 1891, was born 30 years earlier, near ...