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Lemelsons MIT Program, Basketball (Game), January 11th, 2011, http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/naismith.html

For one of the classes he instructed, Naismith was charged by the superintendent to come up with new games that could help bring recreational sports into the gymnasium.

Invention: Basketball

• Basketball was first played with 2 peach baskets and a soccer ball.

• At first, basketball was called “Duck on a Rock.”

• Basketball was invented (officially) in1949.• An estimated 300 million people play the

game today.• Basketball is less brutal today than it was

when it was first played.

Inventor: James Naismith

• James Naismith was born November 6th,1861, in Canada.

• Naismith lived with his Grandmother because his parents died.

• He had 3 siblings.

• James was an outstanding athlete.

• He died November 28th, 1939.