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mossy_master: so are you ever going to come up with a well-reasoned and sensible argument, or are you just going to sit there in front of your computer and look like an idiot?
jimster: That's right. Dr. James Naismith, born November 6, 1861 in Almonte, Ontario, Canada, attended Amonte High school and then attended McGill University in Montreal where he got his degree in philosophy in 1887. Moving on to Presbyterian College in Montreal, where he also picked up a degree in religion in 1890. In 1891 he moved to the United States for the first time to teach at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, where he obtained his physical education degree. It was there, in the winter of 1991-92, that Dr. Luther Gulick, head of Physical Education department, asked Naismith to create an indoor game that would provide an "athletic distraction" for a rowdy class through the brutal New England winter. Naismith thus developed the original 13 rules for the game he called "basket ball."
So there.
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