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History Of Basketball
Who is known world-wide as the inventor of basketball? His name is Dr.
James Naismith, he was born in 1861 in Almonte, Ontario. Most people wonder
were a young man would think of a game like basketball. The concept of
basketball was born from his school days in the area where he played a simple
child's game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse. The game
involved attempting to knock a "duck" off the top of a large rock by tossing
another rock at it.
Naismith went on to attend McGill University in Montreal, Quebec. In 1891
(after serving as McGi ....
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