Among them that a player cannot run with the ball. The ball may be thrown in any direction with one or both hands. But cannot be held with the arms or body.
The original baskets that players threw the ball into were half-bushel peach baskets. These baskets were nailed to the railing of the gym’s balcony at either end of the court. Whenever a goal was scored, a person standing on the balcony had to reach in and take the ball out of the basket.
Basketball was immediately popular. It spread to YMCAs throughout America and in many other countries. Women’s basketball was introduced at Smith College in 1892 and rapidly took off. By 1905, there were private athletic clubs for basketball. There were high school and college teams.
Basketball was first played at the Olympic Games in Berlin, Germany, in 1936. it was the very first time the Olympics included basketball. James Naismith himself threw the opening jump ball at that first basketball game in the Olympics.
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