History of Basketball about the Basketball was first opened in 1891, he was invented basketball as an indoor sport. He also developed the game as an activity for his students during the rough winter
months. He was director of physical education at the Young Men's Christian
Association YMCA in Denver 1895-1898. A teacher named James Naismith who works at the physical
education, as the inventor of the sport of basketball. He was
born in Almonte, Ontario, Canada, and educated at McGill University and
Presbyterian College in Montréal. He taught physical education from
1887 to 1890 at McGill University, and then at the Young Men's
Christian Association Training School Springfield College in Springfield,
Massachusetts. He was one who is the most significant to the sport of
basketball, Naismith was voted to the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1959. Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame, he was named in
his honor and it is located in Springfield.
