Sport in Scotland World V2 in Meghan Plummer, who also plays her Rock-It-Ball with the Falkirk Cannons. It is a relatively new sport, having been created in the 21st century. Basketball itself was originally invented by James Naismith, a Canadian of recent Scottish family origins, when he was in the USA. basketballscotland is the governing body of basketball in Scotland. Until the late 50s, Scotland was one of Europe's main teams as it twice qualified for the EuroBasket. Since then, the team declined. Scotland had some success at the FIBA European Championship for Small Countries where it has five bronze medals most recently
YMCA YMCA in Springfield, Mass. in 1891 by Dr. James Naismith, a clergyman, educator and physician. Naismith was asked to create an indoor "athletic distraction" to keep rowdy youth busy in the cold New England winter months. Luther Gulick, the head of the Springfield Y, gave Naismith two weeks to come up with a game to occupy a particularly incorrigible group. Naismith decided the game had to be physically active, simple to understand and would have minimal physical roughness. The original game was played with a soccer ball and two peach baskets nailed to the balcony of the Springfield Y. The