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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In what may be the only recording of his voice, James Naismith describes how he created basketball to occupy his stir-crazy students during a snowy winter in New England.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.