Assisting Allen during that time was his former coach and inventor of the game of basketball, James Naismith, who Rupp also got to know well during his time in Lawrence.
A student of Canadian James Naismith, William G. Morgan, wanted a less energetic game for older sportsmen in 1895.
Berenson introduced basketball to women in 1892 at Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States, a year after being first invented by James Naismith.
Produced the 2007 nonfiction film, Basketball Man, about the life and legacy of Dr. James Naismith, which premiered at the NBA All-Star Weekend in Las Vegas on February 17, and released on DVD on May 8, 2007.
Cowan later was replaced in his positions of chapel director and professor of physical culture at KU by Dr. James Naismith in 1898.
The New York Times writes that Coon is cited more frequently than basketball inventor James Naismith.
The basketball club's parent multi-sports club, Polisportiva Mens Sana, founded in 1871, claims to have been the first sports club in Italy to play and organize basketball; asserting that it did so in 1907, just sixteen years after James Naismith invented the sport, in 1891.
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His record was 10-6 as head coach and most notably beat the University of Kansas twice in 1907, then coached by James Naismith, the inventor of basketball.