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One might expect a steady stream of basketball fans to pass the grave of the game’s inventor: Dr. James Naismith. Not so. “Since I have been working here, there has been nobody to come here ...
With the University of Kansas working to complete the DeBruce Center, a project that will (among many things) house Dr. James Naismith’s original “Rules of Basket Ball,” a statue of the founder of the ...
The original rules of basketball, typewritten on two pages by a gym teacher named James Naismith in 1891, were going up for sale. Swade, a 1993 BV North grad who grew up going to games at Allen ...
James Naismith invented basketball on this day in 1891. He couldn’t have seen VR coming. Kat Eschner. December 15, 2016. ... drawing them tighter into the league’s web,” he writes.