“The boys began tackling, kicking and punching in the clinches,” Naismith said. Naismith didn’t have enough rules for his new game, and he said that’s where he made his big mistake. “I blew a whistle, and the first game of basketball began,” Naismith said. He called the students to the gym and split them into teams of nine and gave them an old soccer ball and told them the idea was to throw the ball into the opposing team’s peach basket. At each end of the gym, Naismith nailed up two peach baskets. We tried playing a modified form of football in the gymnasium, but they got bored with that.
“For days, the students couldn’t go outdoors, so they began roughhousing in the halls. “We had a real New England blizzard,” Naismith said. Naismith said it all began in the winter of 1891, when he was a physical education teacher at what is now Springfield College in Massachusetts. Naismith was in New York to attend a basketball doubleheader at Madison Square Garden, 48 years after he created the very game that he was watching. The interview took place in New York on January 31, 1939, just months before Naismith died that November, aged 78.
The interview took place in New York on January 31, 1939, just months before he died that November at age 78. He didn’t invent the game in Ontario, that would come when he was a physical education teacher at what is now Springfield College in Massachusetts.Ī University of Kansas professor has discovered what is believed to be the only audio recording of James Naismith, the man who invented the game of basketball. Naismith, who invented the sport in 1891, was born 30 years earlier, near the town of Almonte in Ontario, Canada. It was a short interview back in 1939 – not even three minutes long – but it is one that decades later has a larger historical significance than anyone may have imagined at the time.
0 kommentar(er)
