James Naismith wrote the original thirteen rules of basketball. Naismith was the Canadian physical education instructor who invented basketball in 1891. The picture to the left is from U.S. patent #1,718,305 granted to G.L. Pierce on June 25, 1929 for the "basketball" used in the game.


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Hey that information kind of helped me but please try to explain why he made up those rules. I am doing a Civil War project for college and I need to know a lot about basketball around the civil war times. Help me and e-mail me back thanks.
I need to use this article for a project and I have to site, so I can’t find out when it was written or updated last, so can reply to me as soon as possible
As I understand it, Naismith wanted/needed a way to keep students fit in the winter in New England, that took minimal equipment (inexpensive), and that would keep the students interest by competition – I would say that he succeeded in all of his aims!