Naismith explained in more detail in what he wrote that the reason you had to allow tackling in football is because otherwise, there would be no way to stop the ball-carrier. Enter the Traveling Rule...
Wow, I've never heard Naismith speak before this is fascinating! And he told the entire story in 2 minutes. Very clear and succinct even nearly 50 years after he invented the game.
Still when I listen to any of these interviews from the 30's people spoke differently...I don't know if they were "speaking for the radio" or that was their normal speaking voices but they don't sound like interviewees today. Still, it was super hearing him actually speak about it.
Repent and trust in Jesus. We all deserve Hell for our sins, such as lying lusting coveting and more. We can't save ourselves, but Jesus can save us. He died on the cross to save us for our sins and rose from the grave defeating death and Hell. You must put your faith in him only. He is the only way to Heaven. Repent and trust in Jesus. Romans 6:23 John 3:16❤❤😊❤
Born in Ontario Canada. The voices recorded in the past had a curious lilt you dont hear anymore. He was a Canadian emigrant to the US, and the spirit of basketball was non violent by design. There are more and more Canadians infiltrating the NBA. I think Naismith would have a chuckle and be proud.
Canadians don't need to infiltrate. Its a world game, with talent everywhere thats just as good as anything the NBA offers. Dr Naismith designed the game that way. I am an American and believe NBA players from America are ruining the game, with money and politics. Dr Naismith designed and promoted the game for everyone.
"I guess it just goes to show what you can do if you have to". Amazing. I had no idea basketball was born out of a necessity to keep rowdy boys in check (and it still works today!). Brilliant.
Fascinating! Had to laugh at 'The boys began tackling, kicking and punching in the clinches... Before I could pull them apart, one boy was knocked out, several of them had black eyes and one had a dislocated shoulder.'
😆 I learned the history of basketball because I forgot my gym uniform one day in high school. So I had to sit in the bleachers with a sports history book and write a report on what I learned. I was so interested that I was tempted to forget my uniform more often, but I didn't. It's neat listening to the inventor talk about it, just about a month before my Dad was born! And it was old history back then!
I grew up playing basketball. I played since I was 4 years old. I didn’t have much guidance in terms of physical fitness, weight lifting, polymetrics or proper nutrition. My family was very poor. I made it as far as junior college. I still love basketball to this day. I’m 33 now with a wife and 2 kids. I’d love to show my 4 year old boy all the skill building techniques I wasn’t taught until later. My 1 year old girl picks up the ball on her own and plays with me. I know very well of Dr. James Naismith. It was almost like listening to Jesus speak when I first heard him just now. Thank you for this.
I love basketball since I was a little kid. Never cross my mind, for any second to be able to listen the voice of the inventor of the sport. Amazing! Thank you for sharing this incredible content.
By reenactment I really mean, do the same thing. Give a bunch of kids a ball and, I suppose we can use a regular basketball court, and say: Get the ball in the hole by whatever means are necessary. Ok, no punches.
It's amazing if you read the comments from football players when they talk about a basketball video, they still think it should be played like football and don't understand the rules haha. Fascinating video, thanks.
growing up in rural Indiana I can't imagine what I'd have done with myself as a kid if it hadn't been for this guy and the people who turned rounders into baseball. Every farmhouse had a goal and every church had a ballfield
I wrote a report about this guy in elementary school. No idea this video existed, had only what I could find at the local library. How far we’ve come with access to information.
Sad thing with his moral of the story (it shows what you can do if you have to). If a teacher today made a sport that caused a black eye let alone a dislocated part. The school would be sued, the teacher would be fired, and a criminal investigation would've happened.
@@okd521 I disagree I think people were more understanding and less inclined to sue over mundane problems like a black eye or dislocated shoulder. The parents back then blamed the child for their actions not the teachers.
They started the first basketball game, and a rugby match broke out. Some rough and tumble youth took this game down a violent path, and Naismith had to craft rules to put a stop to that. Modern basketball was born. Thanks to those crazy kids!
The BASKETBALL represents the sun on the HORIZON = (HORUS RISING). Most words in the English language and many others stem from the Phoenicians or the ancient Egyptians. The word BASKETBALL is derived from ancient gods and goddesses as well as hieroglyphs. It stems back to the Egyptian era. BASTET + AKhET = BASKET -> Add BA‘AL = BASKETBALL or … BASTET + ASKET + BA‘AL = BASKETBALL.the word AKHET which was the ancient, Egyptian season of the flooding of the Nile. It lasted from mid-July to mid-November. The designers of the language and our modern culture have, as usual flipped everything around. BASKETBALL season takes place from mid-November and ends in early SUMmER (SUMER) or the opposite of AKHET. Sumer was an ancient civilization in Meso(POT/PAN)amia during the BRONze Age. Keep BRONze in mind for later.
Had a grandfather who played high school basketball in the early 1930s and he said after every basket both teams went to center court for a jump ball so scores were very low obviously.
You don’t have to go back nearly that far to have no shot clock in HS basketball. When I played in the 1980s there was no shot clock either. Also no 3 pt line. Still, had scores often 70+ per team and occasionally pushing 100. In 32 minutes. I do remember watching a college game c.1983,, no shot clock, both teams thought it was to there advantage to have low scoring game, so both “stalled” every possession. Final score was like 14-8.
Its crazy to think this was recordered 8 months pre world war which would start in september 1939 and he died 2 months in during the war in november woow unbelievable and too think he would be listened nearly 90 years later
If you are wondering, James called upon the legend Spalding who previously was a legend in baseball’s and gloves to help with the creation of a better basketball. In fact, spalding helped baseball evolve from catching the ball with your hands to using gloves, which at that time was seen as a “Sissy” act for lack of better words.
When he was talking about players getting knocked out my mind drifted back to the days of my Bad Boy Pistons. And before anyone says it, yeah, I know, outside of Detroit not too many people liked em. I always figured he had to get the basic idea from hockey, being Canadian and all. The set up is the same, a center, two forwards, and two guards in place of defensemen. The only player missing is a goalie standing in front of the basket, swatting the ball away. Maybe I'm incorrect in my assumption but the similarities between the games are there.
Funny you say that, my first thought was "The Malice at the Palace" and how it would have been great if one of the players had said, "But we weren't really fighting, we were just re-creating the very first basketball game. :-) )
@@experimenttryingtouploadst1204 Yeah, to be honest, Detroit fans can cross that line from time to time. Anyone old enough to remember sitting in the Center Field Bleachers at Tiger Stadium can attest to that. That was a rocking night of Deeetroit...Basssssketball at the Palace that night.
Many people throughout the world have become celebrities and multi-millionaires because of this mans invention. Lebron James, Wilt Chamberlin, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan all have to give thanks to this man.
@ Jesus Christ That's INCREDIBLY wishful thinking. We saw what happened when Michael Jordan "thought" he could play baseball. lol Without the sport these individuals thrive in... they would be average nobodies.
Devolve, lol, perfect word choice. That's exactly what happened with all US sports, including the Olympics. The past two Olympics we've had have been downright shameful. Like that female shotput or discus athlete in the track and field stuff crip walking when the camera pans to her while everyone was stretching and video of her walking around the dining area, full of other athletes from around the world, blasting rap at full volume on her phone's speaker. Just embarrassing how athletes conduct themselves now.
@@fivehundrediq5212 more like 500 divided by 10 is your IQ.... See my comment above, it's pro sports has become a ridiculous spectacle now, it's not about the game and sportsmanship, it's just about money and celebrities now
Yep more than Obama, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, blm, the congressional black caucus or the whole democratic party has ever done for them. And I'm being dead serious when I'm saying this. I'm not joking.
So once they got the ball in the basket, who got the ball out? Or did the basket have a hole in the bottom? (Im imagining two guys on ten foot ladders at each basketball goal digging the ball out after a team scores)
Naismith eventually came up with the idea of cutting a small hole in the bottom of the basket , and would use a broom handle to push the ball up and out of the basket to keep from having to constantly climb a ladder.
@Steve A - many people actually lived long lives (some over 100 years) & they had full cognizance of early memories & spoke coherently of them. Makes me wonder about what’s going on today with older generations? 🤷🏽♀️
Little did he know 100 years later there would be children all over the globe punching and kicking each other on the blacktop. Game really hasn't changed
I'm a Bradley and my father grew up in Springfield, MA, although I've never lived in the US myself. I wonder if I have any connection to the sign in the video..
I love how the lack of rules at the time caused the first basketball game in history to just turn into a glorified football game
Naismith explained in more detail in what he wrote that the reason you had to allow tackling in football is because otherwise, there would be no way to stop the ball-carrier. Enter the Traveling Rule...
That’s a good one. So true.
@@RadicalCaveman damn
Without order, chaos? 🤷🏻♂️😅
😂
Wow, I've never heard Naismith speak before this is fascinating! And he told the entire story in 2 minutes. Very clear and succinct even nearly 50 years after he invented the game.
You can tell he told that story a million times before this interview
@@LeNomEstYves In those days, they wrote everything down instead of having a candid conversation with the interviewer.
Still when I listen to any of these interviews from the 30's people spoke differently...I don't know if they were "speaking for the radio" or that was their normal speaking voices but they don't sound like interviewees today. Still, it was super hearing him actually speak about it.
@@LeNomEstYvescuz it’s a lie
Repent and trust in Jesus. We all deserve Hell for our sins, such as lying lusting coveting and more. We can't save ourselves, but Jesus can save us. He died on the cross to save us for our sins and rose from the grave defeating death and Hell. You must put your faith in him only. He is the only way to Heaven. Repent and trust in Jesus.
Romans 6:23
John 3:16❤❤😊❤
His granddaughter was a teacher at my school!
Omg
Pics?
Was she a basketball coach?
@@waitandhope repent don't say God name in vain
@@kingdommoney4739 that's not what taking the Lord's name in vain is.
Born in Ontario Canada. The voices recorded in the past had a curious lilt you dont hear anymore. He was a Canadian emigrant to the US, and the spirit of basketball was non violent by design. There are more and more Canadians infiltrating the NBA. I think Naismith would have a chuckle and be proud.
Canadians don't need to infiltrate. Its a world game, with talent everywhere thats just as good as anything the NBA offers. Dr Naismith designed the game that way. I am an American and believe NBA players from America are ruining the game, with money and politics. Dr Naismith designed and promoted the game for everyone.
Yeah, I noticed he said “outdoors” as “ootdoors.”
I don't know what yer talkin aboot
Considering his parents, I expected more of a Scottish accent.
@@charles-y2z6c whatever
You can see why newscasters adopted his accent. 83 years later it's as clear as day.
Yeaop, He also adopted an old story telling technique that existed many centuries.
"I guess it just goes to show what you can do if you have to". Amazing. I had no idea basketball was born out of a necessity to keep rowdy boys in check (and it still works today!). Brilliant.
Somewhat... remember Malice at the Palace?
Can we take a moment to appreciate the nice quality of his voice. It's so soothing considering he's the man who invented Basketball.
Fascinating! Had to laugh at 'The boys began tackling, kicking and punching in the clinches... Before I could pull them apart, one boy was knocked out, several of them had black eyes and one had a dislocated shoulder.'
Both reactions of 🤦😂
Lmao. They messed each other up!
Sounds like your typical school to me.
@UmmYeahOk but it's kinda weird because it's the 1800s. Those kid's would be great great grandparents by now.
His picture should be up in every NBA basketball court 👌👌👊💯💯
😆 I learned the history of basketball because I forgot my gym uniform one day in high school. So I had to sit in the bleachers with a sports history book and write a report on what I learned. I was so interested that I was tempted to forget my uniform more often, but I didn't. It's neat listening to the inventor talk about it, just about a month before my Dad was born! And it was old history back then!
That's more innovative teaching then I would expect from your average gym teacher, heh.
@@yellowblanka6058 it happens at some schools
I grew up playing basketball. I played since I was 4 years old. I didn’t have much guidance in terms of physical fitness, weight lifting, polymetrics or proper nutrition. My family was very poor. I made it as far as junior college. I still love basketball to this day. I’m 33 now with a wife and 2 kids. I’d love to show my 4 year old boy all the skill building techniques I wasn’t taught until later. My 1 year old girl picks up the ball on her own and plays with me. I know very well of Dr. James Naismith. It was almost like listening to Jesus speak when I first heard him just now. Thank you for this.
Suddenly 1891 doesn’t feel so long ago!
And to think, he died the same year he gave this interview....salute James.
World War II would kick off the exact same year on September 1st, as well.
What a legacy he left. Brilliant audio too.
This man single handedly changed the lives of the blacks.
Bruh 😂
Bruh 😂
We celebrate Naismith in Almonte Ontario Canada in the area he was raised, There is a school named after him!
I love basketball since I was a little kid. Never cross my mind, for any second to be able to listen the voice of the inventor of the sport. Amazing! Thank you for sharing this incredible content.
This is amazing
God bless this dude, a game i love to play and watch.
Gosh, the way they spoke back then....I LOVE IT!
I'd pay to see a reenactment of that first game.
Small things like this would make a great movie or short film. No one ever thinks to try it though
To be a fly on the Wall. The first game of basketball ever. Legendary.
And the second game when they were not allowed to run.
Hand checking tackling in the first basketball game
By reenactment I really mean, do the same thing. Give a bunch of kids a ball and, I suppose we can use a regular basketball court, and say: Get the ball in the hole by whatever means are necessary.
Ok, no punches.
Thank you so much! I loved basketball growing up. This comment was written by Gary
Thanks, great great grandpa!
That’s your great grandfather?
I would say Great Great Great Grandpa. The kid's would be Great Great Grandparents by now.
This lad grew up in a town only 10 mins away from mine Almonte, Ontario. His home still stands and has a sign on it saying The Home Of James Nasmith
My favorite sport. Thanks Dr. Naismith!
“It just goes to show, what you can do if you have too”
It's amazing if you read the comments from football players when they talk about a basketball video, they still think it should be played like football and don't understand the rules haha. Fascinating video, thanks.
growing up in rural Indiana I can't imagine what I'd have done with myself as a kid if it hadn't been for this guy and the people who turned rounders into baseball. Every farmhouse had a goal and every church had a ballfield
The NBA should put that on their website.
Awesome video. 👍🏻
Wow. Amazing videos. I just found this channel. Great stuff.
I wrote a report about this guy in elementary school. No idea this video existed, had only what I could find at the local library. How far we’ve come with access to information.
You'd think peaches would have more to do with basketball some sort of mascot, symbol, pie, or peach juice a traditional drink at basketball games.
Only 120 years ago when it was a brand new idea. Can you just imagine if you set him courtside at a NBA game today?
That’d be nutsssssss
He could have reincarnated by now.
Sad thing with his moral of the story (it shows what you can do if you have to). If a teacher today made a sport that caused a black eye let alone a dislocated part. The school would be sued, the teacher would be fired, and a criminal investigation would've happened.
An individual's life held very little value back then. What's sad is that some people think that's okay and want to go back to that.
@@okd521 I disagree I think people were more understanding and less inclined to sue over mundane problems like a black eye or dislocated shoulder. The parents back then blamed the child for their actions not the teachers.
That first game of basketball...wish it could've been recorded....sad he couldn't see the NBA while alive....imagination people!!!
Thank you Mr. Naismith.
They started the first basketball game, and a rugby match broke out. Some rough and tumble youth took this game down a violent path, and Naismith had to craft rules to put a stop to that. Modern basketball was born. Thanks to those crazy kids!
Amazing. Most spots don't know how their sport started. I learned something today.
Yep that is how the game started with baskets not netting, even baseball and football started in the late 1800's too.
Football started way earlier than that
Baseball had been around since like the mid 1800s
Football is a bad copy of rugby but way worse
@@liammoody9516 ah an American with the most ridiculous comment about football
The BASKETBALL represents the sun on the HORIZON = (HORUS RISING).
Most words in the English language and many others stem from the Phoenicians or the ancient Egyptians. The word BASKETBALL is derived from ancient gods and goddesses as well as hieroglyphs. It stems back to the Egyptian era.
BASTET + AKhET = BASKET -> Add BA‘AL = BASKETBALL or … BASTET + ASKET + BA‘AL = BASKETBALL.the word AKHET which was the ancient, Egyptian season of the flooding of the Nile. It lasted from mid-July to mid-November. The designers of the language and our modern culture have, as usual flipped everything around. BASKETBALL season takes place from mid-November and ends in early SUMmER (SUMER) or the opposite of AKHET. Sumer was an ancient civilization in Meso(POT/PAN)amia during the BRONze Age. Keep BRONze in mind for later.
I wonder what he'd think about the sport and todays athletes.
Probably wished he hadn’t invented it. It’s produced nothing but over rated and extremely over paid whimps.
@@robertshawiv1513 Whimps would have gone to do something else.
@Gremlin Toast and yet the taxpayers not owners or players pay for the sporting facilities 🤔
I bet he would have never imagined it could be played at such a high level. I think he’d be amazed and thrilled.
Very curious what he'd think about it being co-opted into a chinese propaganda machine.
Fascinating accent especially those “L”s. Mostly pronounces his “R”s but occasionally drops them. It’s an accent of a time period rather than a place.
Had a grandfather who played high school basketball in the early 1930s and he said after every basket both teams went to center court for a jump ball so scores were very low obviously.
My understanding that there was no shot clock back then so they just dribbled around the court and it took forever to score.
You don’t have to go back nearly that far to have no shot clock in HS basketball. When I played in the 1980s there was no shot clock either. Also no 3 pt line. Still, had scores often 70+ per team and occasionally pushing 100. In 32 minutes. I do remember watching a college game c.1983,, no shot clock, both teams thought it was to there advantage to have low scoring game, so both “stalled” every possession. Final score was like 14-8.
Nice.
...and the (1) NBA game called for rain was in the Seattle Colliseum...
Loved it. Great video well done and good luck 👍 👏
Beautifully said
I live in Springfield mass and the basketball hall of fame is right down the road.
Its crazy to think this was recordered 8 months pre world war which would start in september 1939 and he died 2 months in during the war in november woow unbelievable and too think he would be listened nearly 90 years later
If you are wondering, James called upon the legend Spalding who previously was a legend in baseball’s and gloves to help with the creation of a better basketball. In fact, spalding helped baseball evolve from catching the ball with your hands to using gloves, which at that time was seen as a “Sissy” act for lack of better words.
Thats insanely good audio quality for 1939. Hell, that's good audio quality today still
Fascinating. I wish he said more about the rules development, like dribbling.
To think just over 100 years later, there was a Golden Retriever able to play school Basketball. How far we'd come.
Something about throwing a ball into a hoop is so fun
NBA should make a statue of this guy.
This is awesome.
I attended Geneva College where the first college game was played.
When he was talking about players getting knocked out my mind drifted back to the days of my Bad Boy Pistons. And before anyone says it, yeah, I know, outside of Detroit not too many people liked em. I always figured he had to get the basic idea from hockey, being Canadian and all. The set up is the same, a center, two forwards, and two guards in place of defensemen. The only player missing is a goalie standing in front of the basket, swatting the ball away. Maybe I'm incorrect in my assumption but the similarities between the games are there.
Well there were quite a few games like that, after all 'soccer' as it is called in Canada and the US
Funny you say that, my first thought was "The Malice at the Palace" and how it would have been great if one of the players had said, "But we weren't really fighting, we were just re-creating the very first basketball game. :-) )
@@experimenttryingtouploadst1204 Yeah, to be honest, Detroit fans can cross that line from time to time. Anyone old enough to remember sitting in the Center Field Bleachers at Tiger Stadium can attest to that. That was a rocking night of Deeetroit...Basssssketball at the Palace that night.
Wow it's actually a real basket literally.
So heartwarming
Many people throughout the world have become celebrities and multi-millionaires because of this mans invention. Lebron James, Wilt Chamberlin, Larry Bird, Michael Jordan all have to give thanks to this man.
They would have just done something else. People like that would be successful in whatever not just basketball.
@@JesusChrist2000BC
Not really. Just overpaid basketball players that’s all.
@ Jesus Christ That's INCREDIBLY wishful thinking. We saw what happened when Michael Jordan "thought" he could play baseball. lol Without the sport these individuals thrive in... they would be average nobodies.
Theses kind of videos make me know more how to be a good, masculine man.
The real 🐐
The first basketball ever played became a free-for-all. LOL
boys will be boys, and thus basketball was born
I hate basketball, but this is still a very cool story to learn and something I had no idea about
I can definitely hear the accent he’s got!
Yes city of firsts..thanks Doc N.
Cold out today? I guess I'll just invent one of the world's most popular sports.
He speaks very clearly.
Poor guy..little did he know the sport he invented would devolve into the NBA
You trying to be funny?
Yeah! You know... Dude would roll in his grave twice if he saw what has been done to his idea. Sad state of affairs these days.
Devolve, lol, perfect word choice. That's exactly what happened with all US sports, including the Olympics. The past two Olympics we've had have been downright shameful. Like that female shotput or discus athlete in the track and field stuff crip walking when the camera pans to her while everyone was stretching and video of her walking around the dining area, full of other athletes from around the world, blasting rap at full volume on her phone's speaker. Just embarrassing how athletes conduct themselves now.
@@fivehundrediq5212 more like 500 divided by 10 is your IQ.... See my comment above, it's pro sports has become a ridiculous spectacle now, it's not about the game and sportsmanship, it's just about money and celebrities now
@@roguespearsf cry and cope you racist muppet
So all the black people screaming about appropriation of their culture going silent after seeing this.
I am watching this from my toilet seat in…Lawrence, KS.
Funny how humble and matter of fact he is.
This dude did so much for the Black Community 😂🏀
Yep more than Obama, Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, blm, the congressional black caucus or the whole democratic party has ever done for them. And I'm being dead serious when I'm saying this. I'm not joking.
Perhaps it’s cultural appropriation? 🤪
@@UA-camCensorsMe perhaps
For lots of communities around the world too. Basketball is extremely popular in the Philippines as well.
😂
Scarcity is the progenitor of invention. Such a Presbyterian!
Glad he can’t see what’s happened to his game
At one time, long ago, this man was the GOAT... out of sheer mathematics.
So once they got the ball in the basket, who got the ball out? Or did the basket have a hole in the bottom?
(Im imagining two guys on ten foot ladders at each basketball goal digging the ball out after a team scores)
The peach baskets didn’t have holes, so they did indeed use ladders to get the ball out (the baskets were ten feet high).
Naismith eventually came up with the idea of cutting a small hole in the bottom of the basket , and would use a broom handle to push the ball up and out of the basket to keep from having to constantly climb a ladder.
You can really hear his Canadian accent.
I wonder how one of those peach baskets would stand up to someone like Shaq after a monster dunk.
You mean to tell me boys used to be rough without getting suspended or going to jail? Wow that’s odd
This guy single handily created more millionaires than cocaine did 😳🤣
The REAL goat of Basketball!
I'm just surprised that he's lasted to 77 years back then. That must be equivalent to living to 105 today.
today there are a lot of poisoned and toxic foods
@Steve A - many people actually lived long lives (some over 100 years) & they had full cognizance of early memories & spoke coherently of them. Makes me wonder about what’s going on today with older generations? 🤷🏽♀️
In 1891 Basketball was born
Amazing
Little did he know 100 years later there would be children all over the globe punching and kicking each other on the blacktop.
Game really hasn't changed
I'm a Bradley and my father grew up in Springfield, MA, although I've never lived in the US myself. I wonder if I have any connection to the sign in the video..
Wow, they knew how to play an NBA style game from the get-go . . . "tackling, kicking, and punching in the clenches." Who woulda thunk it??
he might be a time traveler or had a dream the way he says he just came up with the game is weird
the good old days when boys were boys
1:38 don't worry sir, sometimes the players still punch and tackle today.🤣
Just think if he met some of the NBA legends and was able to see a game played today.
Naissmith The Goat🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀🏀💪💪💪💪💪 the inventor of Basketball
The inventor of basketball lived In Lawrence Kansas as in Bill Self’s town?
Unbelievable
".....they're playin' basketball, they're playing basketball!"
I never knew basketball had to be invented…
I went to school with this guy's grandson.
Awesome