Dr Naismith Research Paper

and instructor at a Young Men’s Christian Association school. One day Dr. Naismith was trying to keep his gym class active on a rainy day so he wrote some rules for a game and nailed a peach basket onto a 10 foot elevated track and made a modern basketball net. Originally basketball was play with a soccer ball but Naismith made made round balls from association football were made, at the time a set of laces were close off of the hole needed to inflate the bladder after others sewn­together segments of the balls covered had been flipped outside­in. These laces caused the ball to make a bounce pass and dribbling to be unpredictable. Eventually they found a way to lace free the ball. The first basketball was made brown, but in the late 1950’s