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...said his college was looking forward to the visit by the Russians, since proceeds from the game are scheduled to go to the National Association of Basketball Coaches. The money would be used for the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, scheduled for construction on the Springfield campus in a few years...
TIME, Feb. 5, states that the American Y.M.C.A. invented basketball. To be correct, it was invented by my father's uncle, James Naismith, while he was an instructor at a Y.M.C.A. training school at Springfield, Mass...
...YMCAer Naismith invented basketball as a game for other YMCAers who, as TIME said, speedily exported it to China and the rest of the world...
Temporary Job. Soon he decided he could do a better job if he knew more about the human body. So for the next ten years, in his spare time, he studied medicine, finally took his degree. During these years Dr. Studer helped James Naismith invent basketball, hired a young mechanic named Henry Ford for $2 a night to teach a Y class in ironworking. The strain of work and school eventually buckled Dr. Studer's health, and he went to Arizona to practice medicine. The Detroit Y soon persuaded him to come back "temporarily" as general secretary...
...University of Kansas (where basketball was introduced by its mentor the late James A. Naismith) last week showed the hoop-eyed world something to marvel at. Its team, coached by Forrest C. ("Phog") Allen (Naismith's star pupil), who has won the Conference championship in 18 of the last 25 years, took on three teams in one evening, and trounced all three-the North American Bombers of Kansas City (45-to-36), the Rosecrans Field Flyers (71-to-22), Camp Crowder...