Post by admin on Jun 5, 2005 20:06:19 GMT -6
Since there is not much action going on the board these days. You posters will have more time to read something that you would most likely pass up. So I'm going to give you a little daily dosage of NCAA history and facts.
This information is brought to you by John D McCallum. McCallum wrote this information in his book, College Basketball USA: The history of the Game Since Its Beginnings since 1892
The game we call basketball was thought up by a man named James Naismith. While enrolled at the Springfield YMCA school in the fall of 1890 Naismith wanted to develop a game to replace their daily hour of calisthenics. Naismith after reviewing all sorts of games decided that all team games use some sort of ball. (duh) Naismith ruled out the idea of playing football because it was too rough to play every day. Thinking back to a child hood games Naismith remebered a game called "duck on the rock." In which a stone was knocked off a boulder by throwing another stone. Naismith devised a game in which a team would send a ball toward the goal in a high curve. Jim conceived of placing a goal 10 feet above the floor at each end of an indoor playing area. This standard of course is still used today. Jim went to the schools building Superintendent Bill Stebbings an asked for two boxes, 18" square.
Stebbings asked, "Boxes? What For?
Naismith, " I'm inventing a new game. I need to put them on two poles."
Stebbings, " Well, how do you play it?"
Naismith, "The objective is to throw a large ball into boxes."
Stebbings disappeared momentarily and returned with two empty peach baskets. From them, derived the name of a new game.
Basket Ball.
Naismith later said in an interview in 1937, " To fully understand the fundamental principle of basketball, you must appreciate the fact that football, for example, was rough because you had to allow the defense to tackle because the offense ran with the ball. Accordingly, if the offense didn't have an opportunity to run with the ball, there would be no necessity for tackling and we would thus eliminate roughness."
Tomarrow well talk about the spread of basketball. See you then!
This information is brought to you by John D McCallum. McCallum wrote this information in his book, College Basketball USA: The history of the Game Since Its Beginnings since 1892
The game we call basketball was thought up by a man named James Naismith. While enrolled at the Springfield YMCA school in the fall of 1890 Naismith wanted to develop a game to replace their daily hour of calisthenics. Naismith after reviewing all sorts of games decided that all team games use some sort of ball. (duh) Naismith ruled out the idea of playing football because it was too rough to play every day. Thinking back to a child hood games Naismith remebered a game called "duck on the rock." In which a stone was knocked off a boulder by throwing another stone. Naismith devised a game in which a team would send a ball toward the goal in a high curve. Jim conceived of placing a goal 10 feet above the floor at each end of an indoor playing area. This standard of course is still used today. Jim went to the schools building Superintendent Bill Stebbings an asked for two boxes, 18" square.
Stebbings asked, "Boxes? What For?
Naismith, " I'm inventing a new game. I need to put them on two poles."
Stebbings, " Well, how do you play it?"
Naismith, "The objective is to throw a large ball into boxes."
Stebbings disappeared momentarily and returned with two empty peach baskets. From them, derived the name of a new game.
Basket Ball.
Naismith later said in an interview in 1937, " To fully understand the fundamental principle of basketball, you must appreciate the fact that football, for example, was rough because you had to allow the defense to tackle because the offense ran with the ball. Accordingly, if the offense didn't have an opportunity to run with the ball, there would be no necessity for tackling and we would thus eliminate roughness."
Tomarrow well talk about the spread of basketball. See you then!
