James Naismith was Canadian physical education instructor who invented basketball in 1891, at Springfield College at Y.M.C.A training school. James Naismith under direction of American phys-ed specialist Luther Haisey Gulick, invented the indoor sport of basketball. The first formal rules of basketball were made in 1892. First, they played dribble with a soccer ball up and down a court of unspecific dimensions. Points were earned by throwing the ball into a peach basket. Iron …showed first 75 words of 612 total…

…showed last 75 words of 612 total…James Naismith. Under orders from Dr. Luther Gulick, head of Physical Education at the School for Christian Workers, Naismith had 14 days to create an indoor game that would provide an "athletic distraction" for a rowdy class through the brutal New England winter. Born November 6, 1861 in Almonte, Ontario, Canada and died November 28, 1939. For his historic invention, Naismith's name adorns the world's only Basketball Hall of Fame, a tribute that forever makes James Naismith synonymous with basketball.