His students, forced indoors because of winter, had become rowdy. They had a lot of energy, but no way to burn it off. It was too cold to play football and baseball, and too dangerous to play those sports in the gym. The school asked Naismith to invent a new indoor sport. Naismith remembered a rock-tossing game he played as a child. How about a game where players threw a ball at a target? The team that tossed the most balls into the target would win. Two peach baskets and a soccer ball were the equipment.
Naismith put the baskets at each end of the gym, nailed 10 feet above the floor. Springfield College continues today to inspire leaders to change the world. In addition to these pages, I hope you also explore our Springfield College website to learn about other inspiring leaders from Springfield College's past, present, and future.
Perhaps you will also see how you may benefit from a Springfield College education, as well. A visit our Springfield College museum which, through exhibits, displays, and artifacts, highlight's Dr. Naismth's and our other world leaders' impact on the world, is a great way to learn more and to experience why we are so proud of Dr. Naismith and all our alumni. It was the winter of The young men had to be there; they were required to participate in indoor activities to burn off the energy that had been building up since their football season ended.
The gymnasium class offered them activities such as marching, calisthenics, and apparatus work, but these were pale substitutes for the more exciting games of football and lacrosse they played in warmer seasons. The instructor of this class was James Naismith, a year-old graduate student. After graduating from Presbyterian College in Montreal with a theology degree, Naismith embraced his love of athletics and headed to Springfield to study physical education—at that time, a relatively new and unknown academic discipline—under Luther Halsey Gulick, superintendent of physical education at the College and today renowned as the father of physical education and recreation in the United States.
As Naismith, a second-year graduate student who had been named to the teaching faculty, looked at his class, his mind flashed to the summer session of , when Gulick introduced a new course in the psychology of play. But now, faced with the end of the fall sports season and students dreading the mandatory and dull required gymnasium work, Naismith had a new motivation.
Two instructors had already tried and failed to devise activities that would interest the young men. So Naismith went to work. His charge was to create a game that was easy to assimilate, yet complex enough to be interesting. It had to be playable indoors or on any kind of ground, and by a large number of players all at once. It should provide plenty of exercise, yet without the roughness of football, soccer, or rugby since those would threaten bruises and broken bones if played in a confined space.
Much time and thought went into this new creation. Duck on a rock used a ball and a goal that could not be rushed. Naismith approached the school janitor, hoping he could find two, inch square boxes to use as goals. The janitor came back with two peach baskets instead.
Naismith then nailed them to the lower rail of the gymnasium balcony, one at each end. The height of that lower balcony rail happened to be ten feet. A man was stationed at each end of the balcony to pick the ball from the basket and put it back into play.
Naismith then drew up the 13 original rules, which described, among other facets, the method of moving the ball and what constituted a foul. A referee was appointed. The game would be divided into two, minute halves with a five-minute resting period in between.
A short time later, the gym class met, and the teams were chosen with three centers, three forwards, and three guards per side. Word of the new game spread like wildfire. It was an instant success. James Naismith - physical educator, professor, doctor, and coach who invented the sport and introduced it to his class on December 21, Few weeks later, on this day in , the Canadian-American "announced the new game and its original rules in the pages of 'The Triangle', a Springfield College school newspaper," Google said in a blogpost.
The doodle shows two students taking shots at the basket, while an instructor modelled after Naismith - with a moustache and spectacles - makes notes, in an indoor gymnasium with snow falling outside. It was here that he took a shot at developing a new indoor sport, intended to help students occupy their time during the unforgiving New England winter.
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