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Basketball is a highly well known sport in the nation. For more than a century, basketball has changed dramatically. Player, the rules, and many other things have changed a lot Dr. James Naismith is best known as the creator of the sport basketball. After finishing his education at the age of 20, he became an instructor at the TMCA International Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts. Here in 1891, he created a new sport called basketball. While a professor at Springfield College, Naismith struggled with the concept for a new type of game to condition young students during the winter months after football had ended and the track and baseball seasons were a couple of months away. Gym classes at the time tended to consist with gymnastics and drills. One day Naismith took two eighteen bored young men and started to play a game. There were two teams and you tried to shoot the ball in the hoop. At the time the ball was a soccer ball and the hoops were too peach baskets. After hammering the goals into place and asking the department secretary to type up his 13 rules of the game, Naismith organized his class into two groups of nine men each. Naismith’s first rule is the ball may be thrown in any direction with one or both hands. Rule two is the ball may be batted in any direction with one or both hands. Rule three is a player cannot run with the ball. The player must throw it from the spot on which he catches it, allowances to be made for a man who catches the ball when running if he tries to stop. Rule four is the ball must be held by the hands. The arms or body must not be used for holding it. Rule five is no shouldering, holding, pushing, tripping or striking in any way the person of an opponent shall be allowed; the first infringement of this rule by any player shall come as a foul, the second shall disqualify him until the next goal is made, or, if there was evidence intent to injure the person, for the whole game of the game, no substitute allowed. Rule six is a foul is striking the ball with the fist, violation of Rules three, four, and such as described in Rule five. Rule seven is if either side makes three consecutive fouls it shall count as a goal for the opponents. Rule eight is a goal shall be made when the ball is thrown or batted from the grounds into the basket and stays there, providing those defending the goal do not touch or disturb the goal.
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