History of Basketball

• Basketball was invented by James Naismith, Canadian Clergyman, educatior and physician in Springfield, Massachusettes on December 1891.
• The first ball used was a soccer ball played by nine players, and the goals were wooden peach baskets affixed to the walls.
• By 1897-1898, teams of five became standard. The game rapidly spread worldwide and to Canada and other parts of the world, played by both women and men
• Basketball was introduced in the Philippines during the American colonial period with the first American teachers teaching the sport along with baseball through the YMCA and the school system.
• Basketball was first introduced to the Philippine public school system by the Americans as a women's sport in 1910 and was played in interscholastic meets in 1911 until 1913.