Word: naismith
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Basketball, as a national indoor sport, is not more than 25 years old. 'Students of the game generally regard Professor James Naismith as the father of the game. He was a professor at the Spring field Young Men's Christian Association Training College at the time. His idea was to create some sort of a game for indoors that would correspond with football, but with the rougher elements of the great college game eliminated...
Professor Naismith called upon the students for suggestions and diagram of their ideas and from these he finally conceived the general idea of the present basketball game. Professor Naismith was greatly pleased when he saw his new game constantly growing in favor, but he was rather surprised at the various methods employed in different parts of the country and by different teams...