James Naismith’s Death – Cause and Date

The doctor James Naismith died at the age of 78. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Canadian educator, physician, and coach who became famous for inventing basketball in 1891. He founded the University of Kansas basketball team and authored the first basketball rulebook.

Orphaned at an early age, he was raised by his uncle and aunt in Almonte, Canada. He was married to Maude Evelyn Sherman from 1894-1937, then to Florence B. Kincaid in 1939, the year he died.

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I am sure that no man can derive more pleasure from money or power than I do from seeing a pair of basketball goals in some out of the way place.

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Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.

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The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play ‘Drop the Handkerchief.’