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The purpose of the Naismith Memorial Com-
mittee is to raise funds to erect a suitable memorial
to Dr. James A. Naismith.

This memorial will be known as the “TEMPLE
OF BASKETBALL,” and will include basketball’s
Hall of Fame, an historical museum, and a model
basketball court.

This Temple of Basketball will bear the same
relationship to the court game as baseball’s Hall
of Fame at Cooperstown, New York, bears to the
diamond pastime. And it will have the same com-
memorative significance in regard to the founder
of the game as the Walter Camp Memorial at New
Haven has for the father of American football.

The Temple of Basketball will not only be a
permanent monument to Dr. Naismith, but in its
Hall of Fame will be perpetuated the names and
accomplishments of the game’s foremost players,
past, present, and future. Deposited and safe-
guarded in the Temple of Basketball will be docu-
ments, curios, souvenirs, and records of the sport.
And enshrined each year in a suitable manner
will be the names of the recognized annual AII-
America basketball teams.

The Committee feels that it is fitting that a sport
which has captured the imagination of millions of
people, young and old, of both sexes, should pay
united tribute to the man who was its founder.
The Temple of Basketball will be more than
merely a memorial to Dr. Naismith. It will be a
permanent monument to the youth of the world,
to American idealism, to the joy of sportsmanship,
fair play, and a wholesome game.

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Architect's Drawing of Proposed Naismith Memorial
and Hall of Fame. Designed by Collens, Willis &
Hubbard of Boston.

 

Nothing will do as much for basketball, down
through the years, as the HALL OF FAME. Not
only will it tie up the loose ends of the sport, but
it will lend form and substance to the All-America
teams, which at present are merely mythical. Once
the names and records of All-America players are
listed in the Hall of Fame, they become permanent
and significant.

A National Jury of qualified leaders in the sport
will be appointed to pass judgment on all candi-
dates for the Hall of Fame, and only those worthy
of the honor will be nominated for the distinction.
Players, past and present, will be given careful
consideration.

The Hall of Fame committee will set up a list of
qualifications which a player must have before he
merits primary consideration. No area in the coun-
try will be overlooked in determining the names
of the men who will be honored annually.

The enviable distinction of winning permanent
recognition in basketball by being nominated to
the Hall of Fame will prove a strong incentive to
players throughout the country, and will be a boon
to the sport. Mythical teams will take a more
concrete form when enshrined in the Temple of
Basketball, and what is now a passing interest,
namely, the All-America team, will become an
important reality each year.

The Hall of Fame a long-hoped-for dream of
basketball authorities, will finally be realized.
And in it the game will have a permanent home
where the immortals of the game will be forever
honored.