The First true basketball game as we know it was on January 20th, 1892 in Springfield, Massachusetts. Canadian Doctor James Naismith invented the game for the YMCA to play during the winter months.

The First true basketball game as we know it was on January 20th, 1892 in Springfield, Massachusetts. Canadian Doctor James Naismith invented the game for the YMCA to play during the winter months. Naismith wrote simple rules for the game, and nailed up two peach baskets for hoops, most of original Naismith rules are still in place today.

On December 21, 1891, James Naismith published rules for a new game using five base ideas and thirteen rules.^[2] That day, he asked his class to play a match in the Armory Street court: 9 versus 9, using a soccer ball and two peach baskets. Frank Mahan, one of his students, wasn’t so happy. He just said: "Huh. Another new game".^[3] However, Naismith was the inventor of the new game. Someone proposed to call it “Naismith Game”

The First game consisted of 18 players, or nine to a team which was standard to the baseball teams of the day. Since Naismith or the YMCA didn’t have the money to design a new ball they used a soccer ball. The concept of the game must have been foreign to the players as the game was played for 30 minutes and the final score was 1-0.

November 7, 1896 was the first known professional basketball game was played in Trenton New Jersey between the Trenton YMCA and the Brooklyn YMCA.

After basketball arrival in Europe, it developed very quickly. In 1909 there was the first international match in Saint Petersburg: Mayak Saint Petersburg beat a YMCA American team.

the first basketball team of the USSR was called a «Mayak”

The First Olympic Basketball Tournament: Berlin, 1936

Thanks for Kansas coach Phog Allen, basketball was added to the Olympics as a medal sport in 1936. But that first Olympic basketball tournament bore very little resemblance to the game we know today - or even as it was played in gyms all over America at the time. The Olympic organizers held the games outdoors on a court made of clay and sand, and used a ball that was significantly lighter (and more vulnerable to gusts of wind) than a standard basketball.

Despite all that - and a downpour that turned the court into a mud puddle during the final game, an American team comprised primarily of AAU players from Kansas and California won the gold medal, defeating Team Canada by the comically-low score of 19-8.

Дата добавления: 2015-11-04