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James Naismith
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Canadian-American coach; inventor of basketball
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James Naismith (1861–1939) was a Canadian and American inventor, basketball coach, writer, and cleric. Born in Almonte and deceased in Lawrence, he was educated at McGill University and Springfield College. Naismith served as an employee at McGill University and the University of Kansas, where he coached the Kansas Jayhawks men’s basketball team. He was a Catholic who spoke and wrote in English.
As an author, Naismith published works including *Basket Ball - Its Origin And Development*, *Basketball's origins*, *Rules for basket ball*, and *Basketball*. His contributions to the sport of basketball were recognized with inductions into Canada's Sports Hall of Fame and the FIBA Hall of Fame.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1861
- Died
- 1939
- Works
- 4
Top works
- Basket Ball - Its Origin And Development
- Basketball's origins
- Rules for basket ball
- Basketball
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- The PRISMA 2020 statement: an updated guideline for reporting systematic reviews
· 2021 · cited 84,879x
- Special points for Brillouin-zone integrations
· 1976 · cited 68,277x
- Fiji: an open-source platform for biological-image analysis
· 2012 · cited 66,823x
- SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python
· 2020 · cited 36,474x
- Structural equation modeling in practice: A review and recommended two-step approach.
· 1988 · cited 31,710x
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Encyclopedic overview
James Naismith (/ˈneɪsmɪθ/ 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.
First developing the game in Canada, he wrote the original basketball rule book after moving to the United States and founded the University of Kansas basketball program in 1898. 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, and to see the birth of the National Invitation Tournament (1938) and the NCAA Tournament (1939). He also lived to see the creation of half of the leagues that eventually became the present-day National Basketball Association, with the 1935 creation of the Midwest Basketball Conference before it became the National Basketball League in 1937.
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