James Naismith
James Naismith was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, sports coach, and inventor of the game of basketball. After moving to the United States, he wrote the original basketball rule book and founded the University of Kansas basketball program. 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).
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Male
Date of Birth
November 6th, 1860
Age
164
Birth Place
Canada, Ontario, Mississippi Mills
Date of Death
November 28th, 1939
Died Aged
79
Star Sign
Scorpio
Height
179 cm | 5'10
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