A brief history of basketball

Modern basketball can trace its origins in early December 1891 when Dr. James Naismith, Canadian physical education teacher and instructor of premises in Springfield, Massachusetts, YMCA Training School was desperately seeking an indoor game asset and to adapt to cold and snowy New England winters. After trying several different games and their too dangerous or not quite suitable for gyms, Naismith wrote the essential rules of basketball, integration of some of the rules of popular game for children of the time, "Ducks on a pond," and then nailed to a basket of fish on a threatening way, ten feet above the playing surface. Course, since peach baskets were always closed bottoms, retrieve a ball after a player scored a basket has been terribly ineffective - incredibly, the game would stop someone retrieve the ball with an ankle. And while the first official game was played in January 1892, gymnasium YMCA Naismith handwritten diaries at the time indicate that he was extremely nervous about the new game he invented, fearing that his basketball would be.

Strangely, the first official basketball game, there were nine players on a side and the winning team won a close fought battle of 1-0 with a ball of 25 feet - the Tribunal barely half of the Court of today! In 1897, teams of five had become standard. Around the same time, women's basketball was developed at Smith College neighbor when Sandra Berenson, a physical education teacher at Collège changing many rules for women to play. It has proved that, Berenson was fascinated by the values of teamwork, sportsmanship and vigorous exercise that promoted basketball and began to organize some of the women's basketball games premiere in 1893. In 1899 Berenson rules for Eurobasket women were published, and at the turn of the century, it is the Publisher of the legendary basketball Guide female A.G. Spaulding spread her version of basketball across the country to countless physical educators across the country.

Indeed, with the help of many YMCA instructors, basketball is promoted in the United States and Canada, pensionable so the way to the game to establish a varsity sport many secondary schools. Unfortunately (and), the YMCA has begun to discourage basketball in 1905, fearing that rowdy; Rough and belligerent crowds play distracters of mission of the organization. But it matters as much as amateurs, colleges, lyceums clubs and even several clubs short-term basketball and leagues not only fill the empty but also contributed to promote the game. Basketball became so popular that the ancestor of the NCAA, known as the Intercollegiate Athletic Association at the United States and the Amateur Athletic Union fought for control of the rules of the game and its future.

A little known fact is that in the early decades, basketball has been primarily played soccer balls that were difficult to dribble. Most of the games was composed of players from the ball between them to advance this Court long. It was not for awhile until a bullet has been specifically designed and made for basketball and often the basketballs were improperly made, creating a strange scene for lovers of modern basketball. Wait for the end of the 1940s, where NCAA became incredibly popular and sufficiently viable to pave the way for the National Basketball Association that Tony Hinkle developed popularity basketball orange fans know so. Of course, do not forget that Naismith was also influential in the promotion and the creation of the College basketball where he became the first team from the University of Kansas basketball. And manage, many of the first students and disciples of Naismith becomes important in the history of the NCAA including Amos Alonzo Stagg, Forrest "phog" Allen and Adolph Rupp.