THE STARTING OF SPORTS

MY Questions

• Why where sports made ?
• When and where the leagues and the sport where made
• Who made the sport

BASKETBALL

• Basketball was made for an indoor game to play in the winter
• The NBA was invented in 1946 in New York City
• James Naismith made basketball

BASBALL

• Baseball was made of children could play a new game
• The MLB was invented in 1869 in Cincinnati Ohio
• Abner Doubleday made baseball

FOOTBALL

• Football was made because the man who made it wanted to change the rules of rugby
• The NFL invented in 1920 in Canton Ohio
• Walter camp made football

ABOUT JAMES NAISMITH

• James Naismith born November 6 1861 died November 28 1939
• James Naismith is the creator of basketball he was an orfen when he was 10 years old. He went to college at the YMCA youth leaders international training school in Springfield Illinois. Then he started working At the YMCA. One day he was playing duck on the rock then he had the idea of basketball

ABOUT ABNER DOUBLEDAY

• Abner Doubleday was born June 26 1819. Died 1889
• Abner Doubleday was in many wars like the civil war the Mexican - American war and the third Seminole war in 1855-1858. Then in 1839 Abner invented baseball then 50 years later he died.

ABOUT WALTER CAMP

• Walter Camp was born April 7 1859. Died march 14 1925
• Walter Camp is the maker of football he was an only child. He went to college at Yale medical school from 1880 - 1882 . In 1888 - 1892 he couched rugby at Yale ,then he couched at Stanford. Walter had six jobs ,wrote over 30 books and 250 magazines and newspapers articles. Then he had a heart attach at the meeting of the rules committee.

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