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James Naismith is credited with inventing the game of basketball. Find all information about him with Planet Basketball.
James A. Naismith (November 6, 1861 as James Naismith[1]– November 28, 1939) was a sports coach and innovator. Born in Canada but then moved to the United States at a young age. Naismith invented the sport of "Basket Ball" in 1891 and is often credited with introducing the first football helmet. A pioneer of basketball, he also wrote the original rulebook of this sport, was founder of the University of Kansas basketball program and lived to see the introduction of his sport as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event in 1936. Naismith's contributions to the sport have earned him several posthumous enshrinements, such as in the Canadian Basketball Hall of Fame, the Canadian Olympic Hall of Fame, the Canadian Sports Hall of Fame, the Ontario Sports Legends Hall of Fame, the Ottawa Sports Hall of Fame, the McGill University Sports Hall of Fame, the Kansas State Sports Hall of Fame and the FIBA Hall of Fame. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame carries his name.
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