I need to know it's for a grade!
2006-10-26 14:30:57 · 12 answers · asked by Boomer Sooner#1 2 in Sports ➔ Basketball
Neismith, i believe did,,, When I played ball, I won a award called the Neismith award.
2006-10-26 14:33:51 · answer #1 · answered by avery 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
James Naismith was the Canadian physical education instructor who invented basketball in 1891. James Naismith was born in Almonte, Ontario and educated at McGill University and Presbyterian Cllege in Montreal. He was the physical education teacher at McGill University (1887 to 1890) and at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts (1890 to 1895). At Springfield College (which was then the Y.M.C.A. training school), James Naismith, under the direction of American phys-ed specialist Luther Halsey Gulick, invented the indoor sport of basketball.
2006-10-26 14:36:46 · answer #2 · answered by Zashley Love 08 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Dr. James Naithsmith
2006-10-26 16:27:15 · answer #3 · answered by WIDE OUTxx0017 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dr. James Naismith -- 1891,
He used baskets which he set on the ground for a new game in his P.E. class. He went on to coach at UNC which started their tradition of basketball. His assistant, Phog Allen, who went on to start the great basketball tradition at KU (allen fieldhouse is the court at Kansas U. also their is a statue of him infront of the fieldhouse which I have pics of me with him)(it's supposed to be good luck to kis the statue before an athletic game)
2006-10-26 14:52:52 · answer #4 · answered by bryan3baller 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dr. James Naismith with his peach baskets that gave the game its name of basketball.
2006-10-26 14:48:14 · answer #5 · answered by Red1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dr. James Naismith
You can learn a lot more about the man and the game here:
http://www.hoophall.com/history/history.htm
2006-10-26 14:33:32 · answer #6 · answered by HearKat 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Dr. James Naismith
was the founder.
2006-10-26 14:38:45 · answer #7 · answered by qwertyuiop 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Dr. James Naismith, a canadian that invented one of America's favorite sports. ironic isn't it...
2006-10-26 14:56:32 · answer #8 · answered by cdcanaria 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NAismith, good answer Zashley LOVe
2006-10-26 14:39:29 · answer #9 · answered by gopistons 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I reckon the Chuck Taylor dude!Look it up!
2006-10-26 15:13:51 · answer #10 · answered by JAy 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋