Welcome to your ultimate Irish football resource


stjamesgate.net keyword stats



Most current MSN search phrases:

football soccer
dublin  

History of Basketball

The history of basketball is much easier toand the US. The US servicemen took the sport
trace than other sports. It is clear thatoverseas with them in WWII and the history of
Dr. James Naismith is credited with creatingbasketball  became  global.
basketball and much of basketball history.
Dr. Naismith, born in 1861 in Ontario, CanadaU.S. colleges accepted the game and began to
first came up with the concept of basketballhave it as a standard college sport. College
during his youth school days in the areabasketball history took off around the late
where he played a game that involved knocking1890's and the first college game began at
a rock off an object by attempting to throwthe  Madison  Square  Garden  in  New  York.
another rock at it. The game obviously
evolved from there and began the history ofProfessional basketball history first began
basketball.when the National Basketball League was
created in the late 1800's around 1898. The
Mr. Naismith taught at the YMCA School inleague however did not last and was broken up
Springfield, Massachusetts in 1891, where theafter 5 years providing a rough start to
sport of basketball was created. He was facedbasketball history. The break up just led to
with a problem of finding a sport that coulda number of random leagues forming themselves
be played indoors during the harshin the early 1900's and each was very loosely
Massachusetts winters. He needed to come uporganized. Ironically enough the first super
with a game that could be played in andteam was the Celtics but they were from New
outdoors and one that adopted a sense ofYork City not Boston. The famous Harlem
skill and not just brawn. He first developedglobetrotters were also founded around this
the game by involving a soccer ball and twotime in 1927 and hold a place in basketball
peach baskets, who would have ever thoughthistory as being the most entertaining of
basketball history, could come from a soccerbasketball  teams.
ball.
It wasn't until 1949 that two professional
In addition to creating basketball Dr.basketball leagues the NBL and the BAA merged
Naismith became a medical doctor focused onto create what we all know now as the
sports science and was a minister. NaismithNational Basketball Association or the NBA.
watched his sport grow to become one of theThe Boston Celtics dominated the NBA from the
world's most popular sports that saw itslate 1950s through the 1960s. By the 1960s,
entrance in the Olympics in 1936 at Berlinprofessional teams had formed throughout the
and he fixed himself a spot in basketballUnited States and basketball was a mainstream
history.powerhouse. Players such as Wilt
Chamberlain, Bill Russel and Kareem
The history of basketball began with teams ofAbdul-Jabar all became household names that
five and was the sports standard by 1897.drew millions to watch them play as they all
The sport became popular to both men andfound a spot in basketball history.
women and began to spread throughout Canada



1 A B C D E 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 101 102 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128