James Naismith, who passed
away on 28 November 1939, 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 (1938) and the NCAA Tournament
(1939).
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