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Frederick Froebel, the poor, unhappy German boy wandered from a brokon
home into the woods and returned therefrom with a philosophy and theory which
he put into practical use when he gave the educational world the kindergarten,
in which we teach "education threugh play".

An orphan boy in Canada molded his rich exneriences in the out of
doors with a practical philosophy when, years later, he originated a game that
18 millions play today. That game is basketball. James Naismith, a graduate
of McGill University in Canada, a student at Springfield College, answered the
assignment of his teacher, Dre Luther Gulick, with his indoor gamee

Coming to the University of Kansas as director of Physical Education
in 1898, Dre Naismith has contributed to the world a game that educational
experts prophesy will have as far reaching effect as Froebel's gift of the kinder-
garten. Listen further, to Dr. McCloy of the State University of Iowa when he
says that "the rhythm and the graco and the symmotry and the beauty of movements
of the athlete in the gamo of basketball are comparable to the finest Greek
sculpturing that was ever dono."

Dr. Naismith, in the carly days, said that baskotbell could not be
coached. It was a game to play, 2 recreation gamee In my early life here at
the University, Naismith met me in the hall one day. He laughed and said, "You
bloody beggar, I've got a good joke on you". I said, "Whet is it, Doctor?" He
said, "I've just got a letter from Joe Bristow cown at Beker University, and he
wants you to coach basketball." I said, "Wolly what's queer about thet, Doctor?"
Dr. Naismith said, "You can't coach basketball, you just play it."

Here was the originator of the game of basketbell who said the game
couldn't be coachode But there are hundreds of thousands of cooches of basket-

ball today. Also, in early April of this yorr I heard Dre Neismith say something