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While most basketball fans know that James Naismith was the inventor of the game of basketball, not many know that the first game ever played was done so with a soccer ball. The history of basketball and the invention of the basketball itself can be traced back to the late nineteenth century. At a small college in Springfield Massachusetts, physical education teacher James Naismith developed the game of basketball to help keep his students in shape during the harsh winter months.
Dr. James Naismith, the inventor of basketball, was born in 1861. He grew up in Ontario, Canada, and later attended McGill University in Montreal. Naismith moved to Massachusetts in 1891 to work at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, where he invented the sport. The first basketball hoops were peach baskets nailed to an elevated track.