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Places Where James Naismith Lived

The Lucadev Newsletter
December 27th, 2014

 

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Calling this short post the life and times of James Naismith would not do him justice. James Naismith is the father of modern basketball. He was born in the year 1861 by his parents who were Scottish migrants. At the age of 9, James lost his parents to the cruel hands of death after they were infected with Typhoid. He was very young to fend for himself and so his uncle Peter Young welcomed him and his two siblings into his family home in Ontario. Like any other child’s growing up, his was not peculiar; he played hide and seek, duck on the rock among other childhood games. His uncle, a very authoritarian man ensured that this inventor of the most loved ballgame went through formal education. He lived there until he completed college.
After completion of his diploma course, he enrolled at McGill University in the school of Theology. While at this school he developed an interest in sports. Immediately after graduation he was offered a position in the YMCA in Massachusetts as a professional instructor. He stayed there for a period of five years. Later on in1895, James got a similar opportunity at the YMCA in Denver, Colorado where he stayed for three years. While in this city, he was able to go through medical school. This man who was once a helpless man was selling like a hotcake. Kansas University was frantically looking for a college chaplain and at the same a sport director. This chance fitted him so well and he never hesitated to take it.
While at the institution, he took two leaves from office. Although many persuaded him not to venture into war, this determined spirit gave their words a deaf year. In 1916 he volunteered to go and fight among other troops at the border of Mexico. In the following year he went to war with France Military where he served as their chaplain. Sadly, he succumbed to death in 1939 in Kansas. Truly, James Naismith was a restless soul but only for the sake of serving the world.

Can you find 3 important places from his life?


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