Friday, February 6, 2015

History of basketball

History of basketball

1. Dr. James Naismith invented basketball

2. Basketball was invented at Springfield Massachusetts

3. Invented in the year December 1891

4. Dr. James Naismith wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot elevated track.

5. James Naismith was looking for a way to keep his students active in P.E

6. Some circumstances at the beginning where well to just try to score.

7. At the beginning a soccer ball was used to instead of the basketball we use and know now the basket was a different type of basket then the one we use it was a basket so the soccer ball had to be retrieved manually

8. First types of shot in basketball at the beginning were just normal one point shot.

9. Basketball is different now than when it first started because they used a basket instead of the metal hoops we use now they used a soccer ball and well there just weren't as many types of shots as we have now.


1891

1960s
2007-2015

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