where We Are in Place And Time.
AJ
Innovative thinking can lead to change
James Naismith
- Naismith was a Canadian PE instructor
- He created basketball in 1891 so that his students could play sports during the winter.
- They used a soccer ball which was thrown into peach basket
- The first public basketball game was in Springfield, MA, USA, on March 11, 1892. Basketball was first played at the Olympics in Berlin Germany in 1936.
- James Naismith a 30 year old PE instructor from the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts he created an indoor game that people could play between football and baseball seasons,
i learned
- that james Naismith created basket ball with a basket and a soccer ball
- roman made Gladiator fights
- greek made crossbow