Tag: official rules of basketball

Once upon a time, smack-dab in the middle of the Victorian Era, a female physical education teacher named Senda Berenson introduced the game of basketball to a group of students at Smith College for girls in Northampton. This new game was invented a year earlier (1891) by James Naismith, a Canadian-American physical education teacher and coach. Teaching the 13 official rules of basketball didnโ€™t seem necessary. Although the newly created game of basketball was gaining fast popularity among men, it was only of interest on the womenโ€™s campus as a winter exercise option. An unladylike game involving a basketball and… Read more »

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