Basketball originated from what "game?"?

Question

It's a weekly trivia "tidbit" question that I can't find the answer to.

and for those of you who want to say "Do your own homework!" it's technically not homework, since it's extra credit.

Answer 1

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.
http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blbasketball.htm

It really was not made us of any ONE game: American rugby (football) was the game Naismith considered most interesting, but tackling made it too rough for an indoor sport. Tackling, however, could be eliminated if players were forbidden to run with the ball, but could move it only by passing or batting it to another player, with the use of the fist prohibited. The game of lacrosse suggested the type of goal to be used, but the goal would be horizontal so players would have to throw the ball in an arc, thus limiting the force with which it was hurled. That idea came to Naismith from his memories of a childhood game he had played with his friends in Bennie's Corners, Ontario.

"I recalled from my boyhood in the lumbering camps of Canada," he recalled, "that when we played a game called 'Duck on a Rock,' the goal should be one that could not be rushed, and that the ball could not be slammed through. This called for a goal with a horizontal opening, high enough so the ball would have to be tossed into it, rater than being thrown."

The method he adapted for putting the ball into play-the toss-up-borrowed from English rugby, but had only one player from each team vying for the initial toss-up, rather than the whole team.

The next morning, Naismith assembled the elements for the new game. First, he considered whether to use a football or soccer ball. "I noticed the lines of the football and realized it was shaped so that it might be carried in the arms," he said. "There was to be no carrying of the ball in the new game, so i walked over, picked up the soccer ball, and started in search of a goal." He asked the school janitor for two 18-inch square boxes to use as goals. Fortunately for the name of the game, the janitor suggested half-bushel peach baskets instead. Naismith nailed them to the lower rail of gymnasium balcony, one at each end. A man was stationed at both goals in the balcony to pick the ball from the basket and put it back into play.
http://www.ncecbvi.org/students/tyson/bball/b-ball3.HTML

Basketball is a mix of several games..ss