Dr. James Naismith invented basketball in 1891 while working as a physical education professor at Springfield. He was born in Ontario, Canada in 1861 and attended McGill University. He married twice and had 5 children total, looking to create a new indoor game for his students to play in the winter that became the foundation for the sport we know as basketball today.

1. Who invented
basketball?

2. This person name is
Dr.James Naismith.
He was born in November 6, 1861 in
Ontario, Canada.

3. Family
He had 2 wives and 5 children.
He married Maude Sherman in
1894. When she died, he married
another woman

4. education:
He attended McGill university in Montreal

5. Adult life:
physical education professor in Springfield.
He was looking for a vigorous indoor game
and he invented some rules for basketball.

6. This is Naismith memorial Hall of Fame
He died in November 28, 1939 in Kansas