James Naismith
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Most Influential Person Across History
Canadian-American coach; inventor of basketball
James Naismith's Degrees
- Bachelors Physical Education McGill University
Why Is James Naismith Influential?
(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, James Naismith was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, and sports coach, best known as the inventor of the game of basketball. After moving to the United States, he wrote the original basketball rule book and founded the University of Kansas basketball program. Naismith lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, as well as the birth of the National Invitation Tournament and the NCAA Tournament .
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