YMCA

YMCA is a charitable organization with a mandate to provide healthier lifestyle and opportunities equally to all of is beneficiaries. Although YMCA was founded in June 1844 in London by George Williams, the Canadian presence of YMCA came into being in 1851, making YMCA Canada a 165 years old organization. Today, YMCA has a footprint in 125 countries with over 57 million beneficiaries. From the start YMCA grew very rapidly due to its core principles that were based upon Muscular Christianity. YMCAs engaged in charitable activities through providing athletic activities, holding programs and classes, assisting young men and women find affordable places to stay during the industrialized revolution. All of this fueled the growth of the local YMCAs…

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…

“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…

Professional basketball initially started in 1891 Dr. James Naismith in a baby boondocks Springfield, Massachusetts. Naismith was 30 years old YMCA training academy advancing up with a action to be central during winter , and 14 canicule to do so. He went through adaptation of soccer, lacrosses ,and football ,and they all failed. Late night of the endure day of the 2weeks he was giving he came up with 13 rules for basketball. He able abounding things still use today ,including traveling ,…

The first game was on November 7, 1896, if you participated in any basketball game you would receive $15. The highest paid player was named Fred Cooper who received $16 a game. The first true game Trenton YMCA won 15-1. In 1946 the National Basketball League was created! It took off right…

Basketball is a very popular sport that many people all over the world love to watch, or love to play. Some of the places basketball is played in include America, China, Europe, Australia, India, and Japan (Ponti). Considering the inventor only had fourteen days to create an indoor activity, he created an amazing sport played worldwide! Not many people could do what James Naismith did. Now people have a way to stay fit, or to have fun indoors. The inventor of basketball (James Naismith) was a…

how to play the game. The 18 original basketball players names were: Team 1 - John J. Thompson, Eugene S. Libby, T. Duncan Patton, Frank Mahan, Finlay G. MacDonald, William H. Davis, Lyman Archibald, Edwin P. Ruggles, and William R. Chase; Team 2 - George Weller, Wilbert Carey, Ernest Hildner, Raymond Kaighn, Genzabaro Ishikawa, Benjamin S. French, Franklin Barnes, George Day and Henry Gelan. Team 1 won the game with a score of 1 - 0. William Chase was the only player to score a goal, which made…

A lot of African Americans could not play basketball because the Americans would not let them do a lot of stuff so the African Americans tried a lot to do the stuff they wanted. Dr. James Naismith invented basketball at the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1891. The game was first played with peach baskets and a soccer ball and was invented to provide indoor exercise for football players. In 1892 Students and Workers at the School Christian Workers play the…

YMCA in the Community Living in a very small community is something that most people do not understand or have the knowledge of. Growing up, I was always into sports, specifically soccer. It turned out in my luck that I lived in a huge soccer town that benefited me greatly. But, how about all of the other sports? There are so many different sports that are not offered in a small town rather than a big one. These sports are all offered in big communities like Omaha and Lincoln. People of our…

Rushing into the Panther Dome to the song heard for the hundredth time, working through warmups, the adrenaline pumps through the bodies of the players. The school is electric. Fans fill the air with cheers of encouragement. The familiar glares from familiar faces received and returned, only build the anticipation. As the final whistle sounds to signal the team to take their positions, all of the sounds stop. The cheering fades. The crowd begins to dim. All that matters now is the game.…