May 9, 2018 · The eldest son of Scottish immigrant John Naismith and his Scottish-Canadian wife, Margaret, James Naismith was born on November 6, 1861, near Almonte, Ontario, Canada. One of three children, eight-year-old Naismith moved with his family to a milling community in Grand Calumet, where his father took work as a sawhand.

Naismith, James (1861-1939)Dr. James Naismith would no doubt be astounded to see the degree to which the game he invented in the late nineteenth century has changed and evolved. As it was, Naismith—during his remarkable life—saw the game transformed from one in which people tried to throw a ball into a peach basket to one in which athletic ...

James Naismith invented basketball in 1891 to provide an outlet for some energetic male students at the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) Training School (now Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts. The simplicity and the athleticism inherent in Naismith's creation remains the essence of modern basketball, one of the true ...

May 8, 2018 · The claim to James Naismith as a native son is made by Canada, where Naismith was born and educated, as well as by the United States, the physical birthplace of the game as well as Naismith's home for the final 50 years of his life. The inventor lived long enough to see the sport develop into a true world game, as Naismith attended the first ...

Not long after she arrived, she learned of a game called "basket ball" invented only one month earlier by James Naismith from the nearby International Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. Berenson read Naismith's article about the game in the YMCA publication Physical Education. Intrigued that ...

Jun 11, 2018 · James Nasmyth. James Nasmyth (1808-1890) was an inventor and contributed greatly to the inventions of power tools, most notably the steam hammer. James Nasmyth invented the steam hammer, one of the integral contributions to the industrial revolution in Europe. Nasmyth was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, on August 19, 1808, the son of an artist.

He remained associated with the YMCA even as he moved to other institutions, returning in 1918 to assist with war work. One of Gulick's students at the YMCA Training School, James Naismith, invented basketball in 1891 in response to an assignment by Gulick to develop a team sport; Gulick worked with Naismith to develop the game's rules further.

ALLEN, Forrest Clare ("Phog")(b. 18 November 1885 in Jamesport, Missouri; d. 16 September 1974 in Lawrence, Kansas), noted college basketball coach at the University of Kansas from 1908 to 1909 and from 1920 to 1956 who was elected to …

Another faculty member was James Naismith. In fact, on 11 March 1892 Stagg was a member of the faculty team that played the students in the first game of Naismith's newly invented sport, basketball. Stagg scored the faculty's only point in a 5–1 loss.

National Basketball Association (NBA)One of two indigenous American sports (volleyball is the other), basketball dates to 1891, the year Young Men's Christian Association instructor James Naismith first hung two peach baskets to the track railing around his gym and encouraged his charges to pitch balls into them.