For the chemical biologist, see James Naismith (chemist).
James Naismith
Naismith holding a basketball and basket
Biographical details
Born
(1861-11-06)November 6, 1861 Almonte, Canada West, Province of Canada
Died
November 28, 1939(1939-11-28) (aged 78) Lawrence, Kansas, U.S.
Alma mater
McGill University Springfield College Presbyterian College
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
Basketball
1898–1907
Kansas
Track and field
1900–1906
Kansas
Head coaching record
Overall
55–60 (basketball)
Accomplishments and honors
Awards
FIBA Hall of Fame
Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame
Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame
Canadian Sports Hall of Fame
Ontario Sports Hall of Fame
Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame
McGill University Sports Hall of Fame
Oklahoma State Sports Hall of Fame
Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 1959
College Basketball Hall of Fame Inducted in 2006
James Naismith (NAY-smith; November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939) was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, and sports coach, best known as the inventor of the game of basketball.[1][2][3] After moving to the United States, he wrote the original basketball rule book and founded the University of Kansas basketball program in 1898.[4] Naismith lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, as well as the birth of the National Invitation Tournament (1938) and the NCAA Tournament (1939).
Naismith studied and taught physical education at McGill University in Montreal until 1890, before moving to Springfield, Massachusetts, United States later that year, where in 1891 he designed the game of basketball while he was teaching at the International YMCA Training School.[5] Seven years after inventing basketball, Naismith received his medical degree in Denver in 1898. He then arrived at the University of Kansas, later becoming the Kansas Jayhawks' athletic director and coach.[5] While a coach at Kansas, Naismith coached Phog Allen, who later became the coach at Kansas for 39 seasons, beginning a lengthy and prestigious coaching tree. Allen then went on to coach legends including Adolph Rupp and Dean Smith, among others, who themselves coached many notable players and future coaches.[6]
^"James A. Naismith". Biography.com. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
^Cite error: The named reference mcgill was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
^Porter, David L. (2005). Basketball: A Biographical Dictionary. Greenwood. ISBN 978-0313309526.
^Sandomir, Richard (December 15, 2015). "Basketball's Birth, in James Naismith's Own Spoken Words". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved May 19, 2017.
^ abPorter, David (2005). Basketball : a biographical dictionary. Westport, Conn: Greenwood Press. pp. 346–347. ISBN 9780313061974. OCLC 562553759.
^"Dean Smith's Coaching Tree Displays Incredible Reach Across Decades". BleacherReport.com.
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