Notes from Dr. Daismith

Faculty Meeting --- Dre Gulick was told by several of his professors
that the class he had assigned them to was impossible to manage. Dr.
Naismith told him that it was probably due to their method. Dr.
Gulick after meeting as they were walking down the hall said, "Now
Naismith it would be a good time for you to invent that new game

that you have been thinking of." Dr. GSulick had lecture once that
there was nothing new under the sun that everything was a motification
of something else or a combination. After that Naismith thought that
with the present games, football, soccer, and lacrosse he should be
able to invent another game. Now he had on his hands a class that

was almost impossible to handle and also the additional responsible

of inventing a new game. After Dr. Gulick gave him the assignment he
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for the burden that was placed on his shoulders. The reason this
gym class was so hard to handle was due to the fact that they were
gymknkakx gym students and after football was over they had no

indoor sport to playe

 

Neismiths next step was that of trying to
modify football. ot practical indoorse Football fellows tried soccer,
lacrosse, as an indoor sport and the fellows that played these games
could not stomich ite He said that he needed some principle in which
to base a new game. Before he was to make a report to Dr. Gulick
and he was about to give up for he had tried many ideas and they all
seemed futile he began to elaluate the ideas up-to-date. He xamghk
thought something like this- nothing that he had done was prespere theme
Why? Take football it was too rough to be played indoors. Well then

he reason that if it was too roughk why tackle. The principle then
that he based basketball on was that when one had the ball you shouldn't
run. “hen in your possession what were you going to do with it?

Every game a goal, but what kind of a goal for basketball? In soccer
and lacrosse you karm threw the ball hard, the harder the more chance of

making a goal. ‘throwing the ball in a curve was Dr. Naismith's idea.
In Kan analysis of games he found that carrying or throwing a

ball was fundamental. He recalled his boyhood game of duck-on-the-rock,
and that the tossed rock was more accurate, even though it did not
-a@rive the "auck" as did the hurled rock. He decided to toss the ball,
in his new game. Since a goal on the floor would be too easy to defend,
he decided on the elevated goal; because the janitor had a couple
peach basketB but no boxes, the baskets were used; because the gallery
railing of the gym was 10 feet from the floor, hhat became the este
height. A larger ball could be more easily Ginti6d than a small one;
so the soccer ball was adopted.

Running with the ball involved too much danger to

the player trying to stop the ball carrier, so he determined to let

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