- For the first game of basketball in 1891, Naismith two half-bushel peach baskets as 'goals', which gave the sport its name. - An important and popular basketball move, the slam dunk, was banned ...

James Naismith invented basketball in 1891. A 1939 tape of Naismith talking about the game has been found — it may be the only recording of his voice. The tape is from the WOR-AM archives.

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 ...

In a recently surfaced recording of a 1939 radio interview, James Naismith, describes how he invented basketball in 1891. ... "I blew a whistle, and the first game of basketball began." ...

Sports; New monument marks spot where the first game of basketball was played. Published: ; Aug. 05, 2010, 5:24 p.m.

The first game of basketball ever played was a rolling brawl. ... as a physical education instructor at Springfield College in 1891. “We had a real New England blizzard,” Naismith said.

World Basketball Day will be celebrated annually on Dec. 21, the day Dr. James Naismith first introduced the game of basketball. Official release December 21, 2023 3:41 PM ...

Naismith: “Well Mr. Heatter, it was the winter of 1891 when I was physical instructor at Springfield College in Massachusetts. ... and the first game of basketball began.

The official story is that Dr. James Naismith invented basketball in Springfield, Mass., in 1891. But what about the teenager tossing cabbages in upstate New York a year earlier?

Audio recording discovered of James Naismith describing first basketball game Published: Dec. 15, 2015, 9:40 p.m. This is a 1939 file photo showing Dr. James Naismith, in Lawrence, Kansas.

What might have been the first-ever college basketball game was played Feb. 9, 1895, between host Hamline University and the Minnesota State School of Agriculture in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Ray ...