On This Day January 15

In December 1891, Canadian YMCA trainer James Naismith set out to invent a game to occupy students between the football and baseball seasons. Naismith nailed two peach baskets on opposite ends of the YMCA International Training School in Massachusetts and instructed his students to toss soccer balls into them. Half-bushel peach baskets were used at first, thus providing the name "basketball." James Naismith first published his basketball rules on January 15, 1892.

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