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Voice 1 - The years clicked on. In 1895 he left Springfield to take

a job a s physical education director in the Denver YMCA.
He served there three years until 1898. Five children
had come into the family, two sons and three daughters. In
1898 he received an M.D. degree from the University of
Colorado. Now he was both a minister and a doctor , but
practiced neither profession. His game spread to the Phil-
ippine Islands, played there by American soldiers. He was
37 years old - bigorous and strong - whe n he came to the
University of Kansas two years before the beginning of the
century -- and he brought the game here with him. Let

his words tell how he reeeived the K.U. job.

Voice 2.-One of my classmates at Springfield in 1890 had been Alonzo

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Stagg, later to become the famous coach at the University
of Chicago. About the time I finished my medical course at
Gross School, now the medical school of the University of
Colorado, mam Stagg met Francis Huntington Snow of the Uni-
versity of Kansas. Chancellor Snow was looking for a com-
bination man -- one who could direct the physical education
work and at the ame time conduct chapel exercises. Stagg
recalled that I had prepared for the ministry at McGill,
and had turned to the YMCA only because I thought opportun-
ities for helping young men lay more through exercise than
through preaching; and he recommended me, I have been at
Kansas ever since.

Meanwhile the years rolled on. His children grew up. His
game spread to Persia in 1901, to Chama, Greece, and Ger-
many by 1904. 3gx By 1908 basketball was started in the
Missouri Valley conference. That year Dr. Naismith quit
coaching the game here. The game spread to Turkey. Amer-
icans Indians were playing it on reservations. In 1910
he was granted a master of physical education degree by
Springfield college. Im 1911 he wrote his second book,
"The Modern High School." Came 1914 and the war broke out
in Europe. In 1916, Dr. Naismith, then 55 years old, was
with the First Kansas Regiment. From 1917 to 1919 he was
with the YMCA in France for 19 months and in the United
States for 3 months. Somehow during that time he managed
to write his third book, "The Basis of Clean Living."
During the war, he waw his idea of preaching through ath-
leties realized in the following way:

Strangely enough, though I qualified and was ordained as a
Presbyterian minister, and have a M.D. degree, I have

never held a pastorate, or have I put out a physician's
shingle. The nearest to preaching came in Y s ervice with
the Twentieth Kansas on the Mémican border before the World
War, and in two years of service with the Y in France, and
the preaching was of a rather indirect kind, at that. For

example, we Y secretaries here at the military camp saw