Basketball is played wherever someone can get
a ball & A Basket. Not like other sports that need a lot of people and a
lot of gear Basketball only requires a Ball and the people that actually want
to play. The First basketball game was on
January 20th, 1892 in Springfield Massachusetts. James Naismith invented the
game for the YMCA kids to play during the winter.
Naismith made rules for the game
& some of his rules are still there today. Some of the rules have
changed and new rules have been added. Naismith & the YMCA didn't have
the money to make a new ball so they used a soccer ball. As the game was played
for 30 minutes and the final score was 1-0.William R. Chase made the ball go
into the peach basket, and became the first player to ever score in a basketball
game.
Basketball grew in popularity and
within a few years most of the YMCA centers in the Northern Eastern State & Southern
Canada had facilities to entertain players. But within a decade of its
invention most YMCA centers began to ban the game because of the rough style of
playing. During this game someone suggested a name for Basketball.
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