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Naismith was a 31-year-old graduate student when he created the indoor sport to keep athletes indoors during the winters. [1] The game became established fairly quickly and grew very popular as the 20th century progressed, first in America and then in other parts of the world.
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1920s; 1930s; 1940s; ... This category has the following 11 subcategories, out of 11 total. / Basketball teams established in the 1900s (10 C) 0–9. 1900 in ...
In the early 20th century, elite male and female athletes were being coached by men. Women coaches at the collegiate level developed an alternative to the highly competitive masculine model of sport in the 1920s.
Posey was the best African American basketball player of his time, playing from the early 1900s (decade) through the mid-1920s. His peers and the sporting press considered him an "All-Time Immortal". "The mystic wand of Posey ruled basketball with as much eclat as 'Rasputin' dominated the Queen of all the Russias", observed the Harlem ...
During the first decades of the 20th century, basketball quickly became the ideal interscholastic sport due to its modest equipment and personnel requirements. In the days before widespread television coverage of professional and college sports, the popularity of high school basketball was unrivaled in many parts of America.
Barnstorming is most commonly connected with baseball, with many stars of the Major Leagues doing barnstorming with their own "all-star" teams from the start of the 20th century, all the way to the 1950s, either playing inter-squad games or against local minor league teams.