Among contemporary college students, playing basketball has become a symbol of youth, fashion and vitality.
In fact, the history of basketball is only 100 years. This is a miracle, and it has become a global popular sport today.
Basketball originated in the United States 189 1, and was founded by Dr. james naismith in the YMCA cadre training school in Springfield, Massachusetts.
When naismith worked as a physical education teacher in Springfield Youth Training School, he faced difficulties that physical education class could not cope with in winter because of the early winter and cold weather in the eastern part of the United States.
In the winter of 1890, the number of people participating in YMCA activities decreased obviously, mainly due to the lack of an indoor sport suitable for winter. At the same time, in order to increase students' interest in physical education class, he invented an indoor sport which is suitable for winter and interesting.
Dr. naismith tried to move all kinds of outdoor sports into the gym, but they all failed because of their own disadvantages: rugby, the violent rotation and change of direction of the ball are difficult to carry out on the hard floor of the gym; In football, many windows were smashed and many players were injured; Hockey, limited by the venue, students often get together and hit each other with sticks.
After analyzing all kinds of ball games, naismith found that all small balls are indirectly controlled by feet and appliances, which makes the technology complicated.
However, if you want to control the ball by hand, it is convenient to make various movements, so he thinks that a new type of movement should be designed to control the ball directly by hand.
At first, football was used in the game, and later, an "open basketball" slightly larger than football was sewn with leather, instead of type A football.
In early basketball field, there was no uniform regulation on the number of participants, only that the number of participants must be equal.
The earliest baskets were made of bamboo baskets filled with peaches and hung on the railings on both sides of the gymnasium, which was 10 feet (about 3.05 meters) above the ground, equivalent to the height of modern basketball baskets.
At the beginning of the game, two players standing in the middle grabbed the referee's throw and began to attack and defend. Players with the ball shouldn't run with the ball, they scored a point. After each hit, they have to climb the ladder to take out the ball and start the game again. The game lasted for two 15 minutes, with a 5-minute break. As a result, the team that hit more won.
In case of a draw, with the consent of the captains of both sides, the game will be postponed until the first one hits the goal.
This is the earliest basketball game.
In memory of naismith, at the first Central Bureau meeting held during the 1950 1 World Men's Basketball Championship, it was decided to name the gold cup of the World Men's Basketball Championship "Naismith Cup".
By 1893, nearly modern rebounds, hoops and nets have been formed.
The original basketball game.
Basketball was first introduced to Tianjin, China in 1895 by an American, Dr. Huili (China's name is Li Ang).
Basketball developed slowly in the early stage, and was listed as an official event in the Second National Games in old China in May 2004.
Basketball activities in society have made great progress. The school has trained basketball talents, and basketball has appeared in industry, mining, government agencies and industry.
Competitions were held all over the country.
1996 At the 26th Atlanta Olympic Games, the China men's basketball team won the eighth place, achieving a historic breakthrough.
China men's and women's basketball team won the second place in 20001year World University Games.
At this point, China basketball began to rush out of Asia and go to the world.