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Brother James Naismith<\/strong><\/p>\n

November 6th 1861 \u2013 November 28th 1939<\/span><\/p>\n

Member of:<\/p>\n

Roswell Lee Lodge<\/a>, Springfield, Massachusetts<\/p>\n

Later<\/p>\n

Lawrence Lodge #6<\/a>, Lawrence, Kansas
\nWorshipful Master : 1927-1928<\/p>\n

Canadian physical educator, physician, chaplain, sports coach and innovator. He invented the sport of basketball in 1891. He wrote the original basketball rule book<\/a> and founded the University of Kansas basketball program<\/a>. Naismith lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics<\/a> in Berlin, as well as the birth of the National Invitation Tournament<\/a> (1938) and the NCAA Men’s Division I Basketball Championship<\/a> (1939).<\/p>\n

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Brother James Naismith November 6th 1861 \u2013 November 28th 1939 Member of: Roswell Lee Lodge, Springfield, Massachusetts Later Lawrence Lodge #6, Lawrence, Kansas Worshipful Master : 1927-1928 Canadian physical educator, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":999,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"

\"famous<\/a><\/p>

Brother James Naismith<\/p>

Inventor of the game of Basketball<\/p>

Initiated<\/p>

Roswell Lee Lodge, Springfield, Ma<\/p>

Affiliated
Worshipful Master : 1927-1928
Lawrence Lodge No. 6, Kansas<\/p>

James Naismith Wikipedia Page<\/a><\/p>","_et_gb_content_width":""},"project_category":[46],"project_tag":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/998"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/project"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=998"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2956,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project\/998\/revisions\/2956"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"project_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_category?post=998"},{"taxonomy":"project_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eb1870.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/project_tag?post=998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}