SOUND EDITOR:

CHARACTER:Capon,Matonhay,Marco,
Lorejo,Carl Tautho
Basketball was invented by James Naismith in
Springfield, Massachusetts. The year was 1891,
and as the story goes, Naismith was asked to come
up with an indoor game that offered fewer injuries
than classic American gridiron football. He came up
with a 9-on-9 game that involved shooting a ball
into a peach basket.
Under those first rules, a single point was scored
for a made basket. The first game would have a
final score of 1-0.
The game of basketball grew very rapidly, with
college teams forming leagues within the first
decade of the game’s invention. Naismith himself
would become a college coach for the game,
joining the University of Kansas in 1898. He would
amass a win/loss record of 55-60.
This means James Naismith, the inventor of
basketball, is also the only coach in Kansas history
to have a losing record.