James Naismith was born in Almonte, Ontario in 1861 (his parents had moved to Canada from Scotland a decade earlier). His parents died when he only nine years old and he was raised by his ...

And now for a little trivia: Do you know who invented the game of basketball? It was Canadian physician, physical education teacher and sports coach Dr. James Naismith.

James Naismith, the Canadian-American who invented the game of basketball, was celebrated with a Google Doodle on Friday. Naismith, who invented the sport in 1891, was born 30 years earlier, near ...

Today's Google Doodle celebrates Canadian-American Dr. James Naismith, the physical educator, professor, doctor, and coach best known for inventing the game of basketball.. Google's decision to ...

James Naismith invented basketball. Asked in 1891 to invent an indoor winter activity by his boss at a YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts, James Naismith is credited as the founder of basketball.

The game, introduced to his students on 21 December, proved popular immediately, with Naismith publishing the original rules of the game a year later in “The Triangle”, a college newspaper.

There are some facts that are indisputable when it comes the history of college basketball, like how James Naismith invented the game in 1891 and the first basketball game was played at a YMCA ...

Sculptor Kim Tefft puts a finishing touch on a sculpture of James Naismith that was installed Wednesday, March 23, 2016, outside the new DeBruce Center, which will house Naismith's original rules ...

World Basketball Day will be celebrated annually on Dec. 21, the day Dr. James Naismith first introduced the game of basketball. Official release NEW YORK – The NBA today announced its ...

James Naismith rests in peace at Memorial Park Cemetery in Lawrence, but a bronze likeness of the inventor of basketball soon will live on near the place the game was born.Elden Tefft, a former ...

Truth be told, James P. Naismith’s favorite sport is baseball. “I could play a reasonable game of baseball. I tried basketball in high school because I was 6-foot-1, but I was forced out ...