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WHERE WORLDWIDE LOVE OF BASKETBALL LIVES,
HOOPINVILLE IS DEDICATED TO THE GREATEST GAME EVER INVENTED.
James Naismith, Canadian graduate student and physical education instructor at the YMCA International Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, created the game to keep athletes in shape while indoors during winter months. Using peach baskets mounted to the gymnasium balcony, a soccer-type ball, his original 13 rules, and 18 students split into two teams of nine, Naismith gave birth to hoops in 1891. It took a few climbs to realize the bottoms of the peach baskets must be cut out to speed up the game. Let’s call this and his placing the ladder back in the janitorial closet the birth of up-tempo play as well.☻
Great thanks to Dr. Naismith for creating a sport a child anywhere in the world, so long as he or she has a ball and a hoop, can play and get exercise while improving his or her skill. Perhaps it is this simple and affordable reality which makes hoopin an International Phenomenon. It now seems beyond ironic Dr. Naismith’s teaching assignment “basketball” occurred at the YMCA International Training School. Perhaps it is…
Thus, enjoy our short journalistic endeavors aptly called FLOATERS.
We hope they’ll tickle the twine of your mind’s eye.
THE TIME OF EVERY HOOPINVILLE VISITOR
IS IMPORTANT AND APPRECIATED.
