PEACH BASKET

Back in 1891, Dr. James A. Nainsmith, a physical
instructor at Springfield, Mass., Y. M. C. A., hung
two peach baskets at opposite ends of a small
rectangular playing field, gave his boys a soccer
ball and told them that the team shooting the ball
through the basket the most times in a definite
period of play would be the winner. He never
dreamed that he was inventing a pastime that was
soon to sweep over the entire nation and eventually
around the world.

 

 

 

 

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It is usually found with this type of goal that
the nets are stretched and out of shape and
never look quite the same to the player.
However, until a better goal was developed.
it served its day.

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