Basketball is a game of five (5) players in each team with seven (70 or more substitutes wherein you can pivot, jump, run, dribble, pass, the objective of which is to shoot into the opponent's basket or goal.
From filing the need to keep students of Young Men's Christian Association International Training School at Springfield, Massachussets, busy during the winter months of 1891 to becoming the most popular sport in the world. This, in a nutshell, is the history of basketball.
A Canadian of Scottish ancestry, who become an American at age 64, invented the game. He was Dr. James Naismith (1861-1939) and it was as a member of the teaching staff of the ITS at Springfield that he conceived of the game as a solution to the problem of the school's winter physical education program.
Among the original objectives of the game, recovered from the archives of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame located on the edge of the Springfield College Campus, were; it should be such as could be played by a large number of men at once; it should exercise a man all-round; and it have little or none repeated roughness of Rugby or of Football.
Two of the most important features of basketball were decided almost casually that day when Naismith first pinned the rules on the notice board and prepared to meet his class. On his way to the gym he chose an Association of Football instead of a Rugby Football and the superintendent of buildings produced two peach baskets to be nailed to the gymnasium balcony. The height (10 feet) was so ideally selected that it has never been changed. Beside the peach baskets is a ladder where a janitor occupies the place in order to retrieve the ball from the basket.
There were nine (9) players on each side that first game simply because there were eighteen (18) men in the class, and so desperate had the problem of finding a suitable game that Naismith promised those eighteen (18) men not to try any more experiment if this one failed.
In a year's time the game was in Mexico, acknowledged generally as the first country where basketball was played outside United States. In another year, it was in France. By the turn of the century the game was known in China (1894), England (1895), Brazil (1896), Czechoslovakia (1897), Australia, Persia (now Iran) and Lebanon. Within two decades of its conception basketball had more than a score of centuries playing the game; Canada (1901), Puerto Rico (1902), Turkey (1904), Russia and India and the Philippines (1905), Cuba (1906), Italy and Korea (1907), Poland, Japan and Sweden (1908) and Peru (1905). So came the rule, in 1897, that a side or team on the floor consisted of five men.
Backboards came to being - six (6) feet on each side of the basket - because spectators in the gallery interfered with the ball and the boards prevented them from deflecting shots. By 1895 these backboards become (6) feet by four feet overall. The large ball (76.2 - 81.3 cm) - the biggest employed in ball games - was adopted in 1894.
The game was officially played in the Olympics in 1936 and between conception and acceptance by the International Olympic Committee was years of toil and dedication. But basketball was no stranger to the Olympics for as early as 1904, in St. Louis; the game was introduced to the Olympic World of sports as an exhibition sport. It was the YMCA and the America Expeditionary Forces that really propagated the game the world over. This is amply attested to in respective histories of the games from all corners of the world where it sprouted after North and Central America, in South America, Asia and Europe.
Asia, in fact, can boast of being first in regional meets starting with the Far Eastern Games of 1913-1934. Basketball was introduced to China in 1894 by then America YMCA Secretary, Bob Gailey; to Japan in 1908 by a Japanese graduate of Springfield International YMCA Athletic School, H. Omori; to the Philippines by the YMCA a few years after the Spanish-American war of 1898 which brought the AEF to the islands, with the First Far Eastern Games held in Manila.
The First South American Championships was staged in 1930 in Montevideo, Uruguay, with the host country winning the title and Argentina placing second. It was Professor J.F Hopkins of the YMCA who introduced the games to the Uruguayans in 1912 and the same year; Philip Paul Philips of the Pittsburgh Young Men's Christian Association brought the game to Argentina.
he first European Championships was played in Geneva, Switzerland in 1935 with Latvia emerging as champion, followed by Spain and Czechoslovakia, Latvia and Lithuania, the first two champions in Europe, are now Soviet Union, and how basketball originated in these two counrties could not be ascertained.
The African Association of Basketball Federation (AFABA) was formed in the sixties - as were the South Pacific Games - with the Arab Republic (now the Arab Republic of Egypt) the first and second edition champion. Until the AFABA's formation, Egypt among other Mediterranean countries participated in the European Championships, losing the 1949 meet (another loss was Turkey in 1959).
The United States has remained the no.1 power in basketball, although the Soviet Union managed to break its monopoly of the Olympic title in 1972.
Before the formation of the International Amateur Basketball Federation (FIBA) in 1932, the Athletic body that claimed jurisdiction over basketball was International Amateur Athletic Federation which in 1926 formed a special commission to rule all ball games played with the hands, particularly in Europe, had become a regular feature of track and field training especially during the winter months.
Through the efforts of R. William Jones, representing the Swiss Basketball League, and Aldo Nardi, then then President of the Italian Basketball Federation, which was fully independent and at the time. probably the best organized cage body in Europe, the first International Basketball conference was held (on June 18, 1932 on the initiation of Dr. Elmer Berry, director of the International YMCA School of Physical Education in Geneva).
Thus, with the basic ideas which inspired Dr. Naismith to write the first rules (i.e., the game was to be played indoors, hence in limited space that would not allow contact, holding, and tackling; and the necessity to devise a goal from which the idea of force must equally be excluded), here are the first rules of the game.
From filing the need to keep students of Young Men's Christian Association International Training School at Springfield, Massachussets, busy during the winter months of 1891 to becoming the most popular sport in the world. This, in a nutshell, is the history of basketball.
A Canadian of Scottish ancestry, who become an American at age 64, invented the game. He was Dr. James Naismith (1861-1939) and it was as a member of the teaching staff of the ITS at Springfield that he conceived of the game as a solution to the problem of the school's winter physical education program.
Among the original objectives of the game, recovered from the archives of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame located on the edge of the Springfield College Campus, were; it should be such as could be played by a large number of men at once; it should exercise a man all-round; and it have little or none repeated roughness of Rugby or of Football.
Two of the most important features of basketball were decided almost casually that day when Naismith first pinned the rules on the notice board and prepared to meet his class. On his way to the gym he chose an Association of Football instead of a Rugby Football and the superintendent of buildings produced two peach baskets to be nailed to the gymnasium balcony. The height (10 feet) was so ideally selected that it has never been changed. Beside the peach baskets is a ladder where a janitor occupies the place in order to retrieve the ball from the basket.
There were nine (9) players on each side that first game simply because there were eighteen (18) men in the class, and so desperate had the problem of finding a suitable game that Naismith promised those eighteen (18) men not to try any more experiment if this one failed.
In a year's time the game was in Mexico, acknowledged generally as the first country where basketball was played outside United States. In another year, it was in France. By the turn of the century the game was known in China (1894), England (1895), Brazil (1896), Czechoslovakia (1897), Australia, Persia (now Iran) and Lebanon. Within two decades of its conception basketball had more than a score of centuries playing the game; Canada (1901), Puerto Rico (1902), Turkey (1904), Russia and India and the Philippines (1905), Cuba (1906), Italy and Korea (1907), Poland, Japan and Sweden (1908) and Peru (1905). So came the rule, in 1897, that a side or team on the floor consisted of five men.
Backboards came to being - six (6) feet on each side of the basket - because spectators in the gallery interfered with the ball and the boards prevented them from deflecting shots. By 1895 these backboards become (6) feet by four feet overall. The large ball (76.2 - 81.3 cm) - the biggest employed in ball games - was adopted in 1894.
The game was officially played in the Olympics in 1936 and between conception and acceptance by the International Olympic Committee was years of toil and dedication. But basketball was no stranger to the Olympics for as early as 1904, in St. Louis; the game was introduced to the Olympic World of sports as an exhibition sport. It was the YMCA and the America Expeditionary Forces that really propagated the game the world over. This is amply attested to in respective histories of the games from all corners of the world where it sprouted after North and Central America, in South America, Asia and Europe.
Asia, in fact, can boast of being first in regional meets starting with the Far Eastern Games of 1913-1934. Basketball was introduced to China in 1894 by then America YMCA Secretary, Bob Gailey; to Japan in 1908 by a Japanese graduate of Springfield International YMCA Athletic School, H. Omori; to the Philippines by the YMCA a few years after the Spanish-American war of 1898 which brought the AEF to the islands, with the First Far Eastern Games held in Manila.
The First South American Championships was staged in 1930 in Montevideo, Uruguay, with the host country winning the title and Argentina placing second. It was Professor J.F Hopkins of the YMCA who introduced the games to the Uruguayans in 1912 and the same year; Philip Paul Philips of the Pittsburgh Young Men's Christian Association brought the game to Argentina.
he first European Championships was played in Geneva, Switzerland in 1935 with Latvia emerging as champion, followed by Spain and Czechoslovakia, Latvia and Lithuania, the first two champions in Europe, are now Soviet Union, and how basketball originated in these two counrties could not be ascertained.
The African Association of Basketball Federation (AFABA) was formed in the sixties - as were the South Pacific Games - with the Arab Republic (now the Arab Republic of Egypt) the first and second edition champion. Until the AFABA's formation, Egypt among other Mediterranean countries participated in the European Championships, losing the 1949 meet (another loss was Turkey in 1959).
The United States has remained the no.1 power in basketball, although the Soviet Union managed to break its monopoly of the Olympic title in 1972.
Before the formation of the International Amateur Basketball Federation (FIBA) in 1932, the Athletic body that claimed jurisdiction over basketball was International Amateur Athletic Federation which in 1926 formed a special commission to rule all ball games played with the hands, particularly in Europe, had become a regular feature of track and field training especially during the winter months.
Through the efforts of R. William Jones, representing the Swiss Basketball League, and Aldo Nardi, then then President of the Italian Basketball Federation, which was fully independent and at the time. probably the best organized cage body in Europe, the first International Basketball conference was held (on June 18, 1932 on the initiation of Dr. Elmer Berry, director of the International YMCA School of Physical Education in Geneva).
Thus, with the basic ideas which inspired Dr. Naismith to write the first rules (i.e., the game was to be played indoors, hence in limited space that would not allow contact, holding, and tackling; and the necessity to devise a goal from which the idea of force must equally be excluded), here are the first rules of the game.
History of Basketball
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