Birthday: November 6, 1861 (Scorpio)
Born In: Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Canada
Birthday: November 6, 1861 (Scorpio)
Born In: Almonte, Mississippi Mills, Canada
James Naismith was a Canadian-American sports coach and innovator of the game ‘basketball’. He designed the game at Springfield YMCA and after teaching it there for several years, he introduced it in Kansas by founding the University of Kansas basketball program. As a young boy, Naismith was always interested in the outdoor games and designed basketball on some of the games he used to play outdoors. Naismith became the first ever campus coach of basketball when the University of Kansas hired him as a basketball coach and with it he started to achieve fame and glory worldwide but he was more interested in his physical education career. Although there came a time when everyone in the world started enjoying his invention but he thought of it as merely a curiosity and favored gymnastics and wrestling more. He witnessed basketball being adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, as well as the birth of both the National Invitation Tournament (1938) and the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship (1939). He received honors like, Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame, the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame, the FIBA Hall of Fame, etc.
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Died At Age: 78
Spouse/Ex-: Florence B. Kincaid (m. 1939–1939), Maude Evelyn Sherman (m. 1894–1937)
father: John Naismith
mother: Margaret Young
siblings: Annie, Robbie
children: Helen Carolyn, James Sherman, John Edwin, Margaret Mason, Maude Ann
Born Country: Canada
Died on: November 28, 1939
place of death: Lawrence, Kansas, United States
Ancestry: Scottish Canadian, Canadian American
Notable Alumni: University Of Colorado
Cause of Death: Brain Hemorrhage
education: McGill University, University Of Colorado
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