It was this game that he morphed into basketball. And on 15 January 1892, he published the ... of players per side wasn't stipulated – the first game had teams of nine a side.

The whole of America quickly caught the bug and even England had its first taste of basketball at Birkenhead in 1892. The game's first professional league arrived in America in 1898 and because of its ...

The first public basketball game was held in Springfield on March 11, 1892, in front of 200 spectators. The players were teachers (including Naismith) versus students. “The teachers worked hard ...

First among these pioneers, it suggests, should be Smith gymnastics instructor Senda Berenson, "the matriarch of women's basketball," who in 1892, "less than a year after Dr. James A. Naismith ...

When I began playing basketball in 1892, one year after it was invented ... Barely 11 months after Berenson introduced the game at Smith, the first official game between two institutions took ...