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Naismith invented the game of basketball and wrote the original 13 rules of this sport; [36] for comparison, the NBA rule book today features 66 pages. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts, is named in his honor, and he was an inaugural inductee in 1959. [36]
Naismith's original 1892 manuscript of the rules of basketball, one of the most expensive manuscripts in existence, is publicly displayed at Allen Fieldhouse on the campus of the University of Kansas. Naismith was the first coach in the history of Kansas Jayhawks men's basketball.
An illustration of a basketball game that accompanied Naismith's article from The Triangle in 1892 listing his 13 rules. There were only thirteen rules of "basket ball": The ball may be thrown in any direction with one or both hands.
On this day in Celtics history, Larry Bird won two prestigious media awards, and basketball inventor James Naismith published the sport's original 13 rules.
Basketball is a ball game and team sport in which two teams of five players try to score points by throwing or "shooting" a ball through the top of a basketball hoop while following a set of rules. Since being developed by James Naismith as a non-contact game that almost anyone can play, basketball has undergone many different rule variations ...
The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame was established in 1959, without a physical location, by Lee Williams, a former athletic director at Colby College.In the 1960s, the Hall of Fame struggled to raise enough money to construct its first facility.
In 2006, James Naismith's granddaughter discovered his handwritten notes and typewritten rules among boxes of documents in her basement. [2] In the documents, Naismith recalled playing "duck on a rock" as a child and used its rules as inspiration when he developed the game of basketball in 1891.
During the 1895–96 season, teams adhered to the 13 original rules of basketball written by the game's inventor, James Naismith, in December 1891 and published in January 1892, [1] as well as a rule change made in 1894 which set the free-throw line at 20 feet (6.1 m). [2] For the 1895–96 season, the following rules changes also were implemented: