Springfield, Massachusetts

Naismith was born in Canada. He was 31 years old and a graduate student from Presbyterian College in Montreal, Canada, when he decided that he wanted to follow his passion of athletics. He moved to Springfield, Massachusetts to study physical education and work as a physical education instructor at Springfield College. The college was also known as the School of Christian Workers, at that time. (Where 1) In his second year of college, James’ instructor Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick challenged the…

knuckles. In the same fashion later on, his sketches in Dartmouth College’s rag the Jack’o ‘Lantern. Throughout his career Dr. Seuss wrote about topics close to his heart and experiences that shaped his life and perspective of his youth in Springfield Massachusetts.…

The gameplay has also changed is the hoops,the hoops used to be peach baskets instead of metal goals. Basketball was created in 1891 by a P.E teacher named Dr.James naismith.James naismith was a man who loved sports and loved God.At the springfield Massachusetts YMCA James created basketball because he was thinking of a new sport to play in the winter time while it was cold outside.Basketball was based off a game called Duck on a rock where children would have a rock on another rock (duck on…

McGill University in Montreal, Canada and being athletic director at this sameUniversity, Naismith moved to Springfield, Massachusetts to join the YMCATraining School there. Being a physical educator he was dealing with the problemthat his students and workers could not play sports outside in winter and that therooms for indoor sports where rather small (History of Basketball, 2004). Hisprimary goal was to invent a game that, like duck-on-a-rock, did not rely onphysical strength…

“The origins of basketball go as far back as the late 19th century, in Springfield, Massachusetts. Dr. James Naismith, a physical education at the YMCA, had class was full of fractious men, and was told that he needed to create an indoor game to keep the class distracted. He created basketball in two weeks, and it originally had 13 rules. As a child, Naismith and his friends played “duck on a rock”, a game in which they tried to knock a large rock off of a boulder by throwing smaller rocks at it…

Born on March 2 1904 in Springfield Ma Theodor was the second of two children to Theordor Geisel and –Henierra Seuss. His parents families both owned were shops, his mother came from a well-known German bakery family, making pies in town. His father came from a German family known for making the Kalmboch & Geisel Brewery, which was one of the largest beer companies in the New England area. Growing up in Forrest Park neighborhood, Theodor rarely needed for much, as he would often play with is…

deserve to be in there they get plenty of care more than some schools it seems. It just seems dumb to punish the kids and hard working adults but to in way help the prisoners. Illinois prison systems is one of the best accourding to some source from Springfield. Even though the prisons are crowded much like the schools the inmates are taken care of that’s why it would be easy to cut funding for the m and give it back to the workers or the prison and the students in the…

designed and founded the game of basketball. He was to discover a game that would keep football players in shape during the off season. Basketball origin dates back almost two hundred years and the first game of basketball was played in Springfield, Massachusetts in December. The basic of the game is still the same although it has changed very much. The North Eastern part of the United States, it snows a lot so there were not many things for children to do when it was cold outside. Basketball…

Samuel Perry Jacks, also known as Sam Jacks was born in Glasgow, Scotland on April 23, 1915. He immigrated to Canada in 1920. He is best known for the invention of floor hockey and ringette. Jacks began as an assistant physical director at the West End YMCA in Toronto until 1940, after 1940 he was a member of the Army until he returned to the YMCA to create the Toronto Boy’s club, becoming its first president. In 1936 he designed and created the game of floor hockey, and developed the very first…

things. I thought about what is the difference between this college and that college? How far was the college going to be from home? Each college that I visited had both good and bad qualities. My first choice was to attend Evangel University in Springfield, Missouri, it was only fourteen miles away which is twenty minutes. My college visit there was outstanding, it is an experience I will not forget. This was the first college visit that I had ever been on. Before we started the first of many…