Winter 1891 to college students of the Youth Christian Association of Springfield, Mass., forced to perform endless gymnastics, considered at the time one of the only means of educating young people to the sport, it was very boring to engage in physical education. Monotony of training needed to put an end, to bring them a fresh approach, which would be capable to meet the competitive requirements of the strong and healthy young people.Exit the seemingly dead-end situation found college instructor James Naismith. December 21, 1891 he tied the two baskets of peaches from the railing of the balcony and gym, sharing Eighteen students into two teams, invited them to a game, that meant that to throw more balls into the opponents' basket. The idea of the game he was born during his school years, when children played in an ancient game «duck-on-a-rock» ( «A duck on a rock"). The meaning of this popular game at the time was: tossing a small stone, it was necessary to hit them top of another stone, larger in size.A pragmatic called "basketball" game only remotely resembled the modern basketball. Of the ball did not exist, players just threw it to each other, standing still, and then tried to throw in a basket, and only two hands from the bottom or from the chest, and after a successful throw one player takes on the oversight of the wall ladder and removed the ball from the basket . From a modern point of view of the teams would show us sluggish and inhibited, but to Dr. Naismith was to create a game is collective, which could involve a lot of time involved, and this problem is his invention meets in full.In 1892, a physical education teacher at Smith College, Northampton (MA) Senda Berenson developed the first rules of women's basketball.
