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James Naismith, the Canadian-American who invented basketball, recounted how this sport came into being and was first played rudimentary for the first time in 1891. | Sports | CNN


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James Naismith, the Canadian-American who invented basketball, was honored with a Google doodle on Friday.

Naismith, who invented the sport in 1891, was born 30 years earlier, near the town of Almonte in Ontario, Canada.

He did not invent the game in Ontario.

That would come when he was professor of Physical Education at what is now Springfield College in Massachusetts.

The only audio recording of Naismith is believed to exist, which was discovered by a professor at the University of Kansas.

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The interview took place in New York, on January 31, 1939, a few months before Naismith died that November at the age of 78.

Naismith was in New York to attend a basketball double show at Madison Square Garden, 48 years after he created the very game he was watching.

Naismith said it all started in the winter of 1891, when he was a Physical Education teacher.

"We had a real snowstorm in New England," Naismith said.

“For days, the students couldn't go outside, so they started playing in the hallways.

We try everything to keep them quiet.

We tried to play a modified form of soccer in the gym, but they got bored with it.

I had to do something »

Then one day Naismith had an idea.

At each end of the gym, Naismith nailed two peach baskets.

He called the students to the gym and divided them into teams of nine and gave them an old soccer ball and told them the idea was to throw the ball into the opposing team's peach basket.

"I blew a whistle and the first basketball game started," Naismith said.

However, there was a major problem.

Naismith didn't have enough rules for his new game, and he said he made his big mistake there.

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"The guys started tackling and kicking and hitting the studs," Naismith said.

«They ended up in a wrestling match in the middle of the gym.

Before he could separate them, a boy was knocked out, several of them had black eyes and one had a dislocated shoulder.

It was certainly a slaughter. "

But the students insisted that Naismith let them play again.

So he made up a few more rules, including one that he considered the most important: don't run with the ball.

"That made them stop typing and hitting each other," Naismith said.

“We tested the game with those rules, and we didn't have a single casualty.

We had a good and clean sport.

Ten years later, Naismith said, basketball was played all over the country.

The sport made its debut at the Olympic Games in 1936, in Berlin.

The radio interview was broadcast on a program called

We the People

, hosted by Gabriel Heatter, on WOR-AM.

The audio was discovered by Michael Zogry, who is an associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Kansas, while researching his work-in-progress book

Religion and Basketball: The Naismith Game

.

Naismith earned his medical degree and was hired by Kansas in 1898. He was the first athletic director at the University of Kansas and the school's first basketball coach (1899-1907).

Naismith died at his Lawrence, Kansas, home nine days after suffering a severe brain hemorrhage, according to Biography.com.

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