Show ORIGIN OF BASKETBALL I Springfield In Invented Sport to Prevent Strike of Students I I It Is peculIarly fitting mUns that the new I member of oC the Intercollegiate basket baskot st In the tho work ork there thoro would bo be no more mor trouble lie He thought the wn way to ilo do this was to arouse tho ho spirit o of competition Lion tion among them and accordingly In inthe the tho of 1892 set about devising an indoor game to take tho place of f the monotonous mass drills Ho Do had always been an admirer do dothe o othe the game of lacrosse and used this as ai asa aia a foundation lie He first or of all eliminated the and reduced the tho size ot of th thc goal making the players pass H and for Cor forbidding bidding running as In lacrosse unsatIsfactory for tor when a bit fellow tood In thu small god gOi godIt It was Impossible to score acore Dr then made mude his first rac 4 J Ical change chans Ho raised ed the tho goal Joal ten feet Ceet from Crom the so as to mako It impossible for or one bIg fellow to en cn block It an and an old peach was used Soon It was thought to get a large ball and n a football bla bind 1 der was trIed This proved too sort soft so they shined shIfted over to On an association football and the present basketball Is little since then This scheme o of competition proved Immensely successful and all trouble |