James Naismith- Notable Biographies

(1861-11-06 - 1939/11/28)

James Naismith
Creator of basketball

He was born on November 6, 1861 in Almonte, Ontario, Canada.
She furthered her studies at McGill University and Presbyterian College in Montreal. He taught physical education from 1887 until 1890 at McGill, and from 1890 to 1895 in the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) Training School (now Springfield College), in Springfield, Massachusetts.
He served as director of physical education of the YMCA in Denver (1895-1898) and the University of Kansas (1898-1937).
In 1891, with the help of the American specialist in physical education Luther Halsey Gulick, he created basketball or basketball as a sport of indoor track. Naismith developed the game as an activity for their students during the cold winter months.
He wrote the first rules and lived to see how basketball participated as display Olympic in 1904 and as an officer in the 1936 Olympics in Berlin.
In 1959 he entered the Basketball Hall of Fame.
James Naismith died in Lawrence, Kansas, United States, on November 28, 1939.