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Lesson 1 Introduction of Basketball

This document provides an introduction and history of basketball. It discusses how James Naismith invented the game in 1891 using peach baskets as goals. The rules were published in 1892 and the game quickly spread across the United States and internationally. The early years saw variations in team sizes and rules committees being formed to standardize rules. Television exposure in the 1980s greatly increased basketball's popularity at all levels. The document outlines the growth of high school, college, professional, women's, and international basketball.

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Lesson 1 Introduction of Basketball

This document provides an introduction and history of basketball. It discusses how James Naismith invented the game in 1891 using peach baskets as goals. The rules were published in 1892 and the game quickly spread across the United States and internationally. The early years saw variations in team sizes and rules committees being formed to standardize rules. Television exposure in the 1980s greatly increased basketball's popularity at all levels. The document outlines the growth of high school, college, professional, women's, and international basketball.

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INTRODUCTION OF

BASKETBALL
LESSON 1
AT THE END OF THIS LESSON, YOU WILL BE ABLE TO:

• Knowing the definition of basketball.


• Understand the history of basketball.
• Determine the growth of the games.
WHAT IS BASKETBALL

• Basketball is a games played between two teams of five player


each on a rectangular court, usually indoor. Each team tries to
score by tossing the ball through the opponent’s goal, an
elevated horizontal hoop and net called a basket.
HISTORY OF BASKETBALL

• The only major sport strictly of U.S. origin, basketball was invented by James
Naismith (1861–1939) on or about December 1, 1891, at the International Young
Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) Training School (now Springfield College),
Springfield, Massachusetts, where Naismith was an instructor in physical education.
• For that first game of basketball in 1891, Naismith used as goals two half-bushel
peach baskets, which gave the sport its name. The students were enthusiastic. After
much running and shooting, William R. Chase made a midcourt shot—the only score
in that historic contest. Word spread about the newly invented game, and numerous
associations wrote Naismith for a copy of the rules, which were published in the
January 15, 1892, issue of the Triangle, the YMCA Training School’s campus paper.
HISTORY OF BASKETBALL

• While basketball is competitively a winter sport, it is played on a 12-


month basis—on summer playgrounds, in municipal, industrial, and
church halls, in school yards and family driveways, and in summer camps
—often on an informal basis between two or more contestants. Many
grammar schools, youth groups, municipal recreation centres, churches,
and other organizations conduct basketball programs for youngsters of less
than high school age. Jay Archer, of Scranton, Pennsylvania, introduced
“biddy” basketball in 1950 for boys and girls under 12 years of age, the
court and equipment being adjusted for size.
THE EARLY YEARS OF BASKETBALL

• In the early years the number of players on a team varied according to the
number in the class and the size of the playing area.
• In 1894 teams began to play with five on a side when the playing area was
less than 1,800 square feet (167.2 square meters); the number rose to seven
when the gymnasium measured from 1,800 to 3,600 square feet (334.5
square meters) and up to nine when the playing area exceeded that.
• In 1895 the number was occasionally set at five by mutual consent; the
rules stipulated five players two years later, and this number has remained
ever since.
THE EARLY YEARS OF BASKETBALL

• Since Naismith and five of his original players were Canadians, it is not
surprising that Canada was the first country outside the United States to
play the game.
• Basketball was introduced in France in 1893, in England in 1894, in
Australia, China, and India soon thereafter, and in Japan in 1900.
THE EARLY YEARS OF BASKETBALL

• While basketball helped swell the membership of YMCAs because of the


availability of their gyms, within five years the game was outlawed by various
associations because gyms that had been occupied by classes of 50 or 60
members were now monopolized by only 10 to 18 players.
THE EARLY YEARS OF BASKETBALL

• The first college to play the game was either Geneva College (Beaver Falls,
Pennsylvania) or the University of Iowa. C.O. Bemis heard about the new sport at
Springfield and tried it out with his students at Geneva in 1892. At Iowa, H.F.
Kallenberg, who had attended Springfield in 1890, wrote Naismith for a copy of the
rules and also presented the game to his students. At Springfield, Kallenberg met Amos
Alonzo Stagg, who became athletic director at the new University of Chicago in 1892.
The first college basketball game with five on a side was played between the University
of Chicago and the University of Iowa in Iowa City on January 18, 1896. The
University of Chicago won, 15–12, with neither team using a substitute. Kallenberg
refereed that game—a common practice in that era—and some of the spectators took
exception to some of his decisions.
THE EARLY YEARS OF BASKETBALL

• The colleges formed their own rules committee in 1905, and by 1913 there were at least
five sets of rules: collegiate, YMCA–Amateur Athletic Union, those used by state militia
groups, and two varieties of professional rules. Teams often agreed to play under a
different set for each half of a game. To establish some measure of uniformity, the
colleges, Amateur Athletic Union, and YMCA formed the Joint Rules Committee in
1915.
• This group was renamed the National Basketball Committee (NBC) of the United States
and Canada in 1936 and until 1979 served as the game’s sole amateur rule-making body.
In that year, however, the colleges broke away to form their own rules committee, and
during the same year the National Federation of State High School Associations likewise
assumed the task of establishing separate playing rules for the high schools.
THE EARLY YEARS OF BASKETBALL

• The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) Rules


Committee for men is a 12-member board representing all three
NCAA divisions. It has six members from Division I schools and
three each from Divisions II and III. It has jurisdiction over colleges,
junior colleges, the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics
(NAIA), and Armed Forces basketball. There is a similar body for
women’s play.
GROWTH OF THE GAME

• Basketball grew steadily but slowly in popularity and


importance in the United States and internationally in the first
three decades after World War II. Interest in the game deepened
as a result of television exposure, but with the advent of cable
television, especially during the 1980s, the game’s popularity
exploded at all levels.
GROWTH OF THE GAME

• Given a timely mix of spectacular players—such as Earvin


(“Magic”) Johnson, Julius Erving (“Dr. J”), Larry Bird, and
Michael Jordan—and the greatly increased exposure, basketball
moved quickly to the forefront of the American sporting scene,
alongside such traditional leaders as baseball and football. Four
areas of the game developed during this period: U.S. high
school and college basketball, professional basketball, women’s
basketball, and international basketball.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

• The success of international basketball was greatly advanced by Forrest C.


(“Phog”) Allen, a Naismith disciple and a former coach at the University
of Kansas, who led the movement for the inclusion of basketball in the
Olympic Games in 1936 and thereafter. Basketball has also been played in
the Pan-American Games since their inauguration in 1951. The
international game is governed by the Fédération Internationale de
Basketball Amateur (FIBA). World championships began in 1950 for men
and in 1953 for women. (The men’s tournament was renamed the FIBA
Basketball World Cup in 2014.)
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

• Under international rules the court differs in that there is no


frontcourt or backcourt, and the free throw lanes form a
modified wedge shape. There are some differences in rules,
including those governing substitutions, technical and personal
fouls, free throws, intermissions, and time-outs. Outside the
United States there are few places that strictly separate amateur
from professional athletes.
INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION

• Basketball has caught on particularly well in Italy. The Italian professional


basketball league (Lega Basket) is highly regarded and popular in that country.
Spain also has several basketball leagues, the main one being the ACB
(Asociación de Clubes de Baloncesto). The other major centre of European
basketball is eastern Europe, particularly the Balkans. Although the European
leagues are not formally aligned with the American NBA, there are links between
European and American basketball. It is not uncommon for European players to
be drafted by the NBA, nor is it uncommon for American players to play in
Europe. American players in the European leagues tend to be older players who
have finished successful NBA careers in the United States or younger players
who have not yet been drafted into the NBA.

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