Who discovered the basketball ?

Question

discovered maybe wrong but my english not so good, invent is straight word?

Answer 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.

The first formal rules were devised in 1892. Initially, players dribbled a soccer ball up and down a court of unspecified dimensions. Points were earned by landing the ball in a peach basket. Iron hoops and a hammock-style basket were introduced in 1893. Another decade passed, however, before the innovation of open-ended nets put an end to the practice of manually retrieving the ball from the basket each time a goal was scored.

In 1959, James Naismith was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame (called the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame.)

Answer 2

In early December 1891, Dr. James Naismith,[1] a Canadian physical education student and instructor at YMCA Training School[2] (today, Springfield College) in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA, sought a vigorous indoor game to keep his students occupied and at proper levels of fitness during the long New England winters. After rejecting other ideas as either too rough or poorly suited to walled-in gymnasiums, he wrote the basic rules and nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot (3.05 m) elevated track. In contrast with modern basketball nets, this peach basket retained its bottom, so balls scored into the basket had to be poked out with a long dowel each time. A soccer ball was used to shoot goals. Whenever a person got the ball in the basket, they would give their team a point. Whichever team got the most points won the game. [3]

Answer 3

Since several people have already told you who invented the game of basketball, you should now know that no one 'discovered' it.

Answer 4

James Naismith is credited with being basketball's inventor:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith

He was a Canadian who invented the game while working at a YMCA in Springfield, Mass.

Answer 5

The 1st Rap Star @ the turn of the century! All's I know is that all rap stars wanna' play basketball & all Basketball players wanna' be Rap stars or so it seems! The Sport has gone down hill! I'm not interested in watchin' a bunch of "gangbanger" lookin' dudes with their shorts down around their knees & underwear hangin' out, Sorry! Actually, it was Dr. James Naismith @ K.U. in 1891! He actually started the K.U. Bball program!

Answer 6

No one "discovered" it. It was created/invented.

Answer 7

haha..who discovered the basketball? Like it was an element or articfact hiding under the earth's crust waiting to be excavated?

Answer 8

I can't remember the dudes name but there is an article about it in this months issue of FHM. It was started here in America in the late 1800's.

Answer 9

the guy who invented basketball is dr.james naismith if that's what you're asking

Answer 10

discovered?? what a question! it was invented.
invented by whom?? by James Naismith
why?? go ahead and ask him