Playing Basketball by Girls

Basketball is a very popular sport worldwide, played with a round, orange ball that bounces. The sport was created in Springfield, Massachusetts, by a professor named Dr. James Naismith in the year 1891.
Basketball is now the second most popular sport in the world. Women's basketball is also a popular sport, even though it does not receive nearly as much attention as men's basketball. Basketball has been played in the Summer Olympic Games since 1936.
In early December 1891, James Naismith, a Canadian physical education teacher at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts invented an indoor game called basketball. He invented the sport to keep his students from becoming bored during the winter.Naismith wrote the basic rules and then nailed a peach basket onto a 10-foot tall pole. Unlike modern basketball hoops, the bottom of the peach-basket was still there, so after a point was scored, somebody had to get the ball out of the basket with a long stick. Over time, people made a hole at the bottom of the basket so the ball could go through more easily.

The score of the first game of basketball ever played was 1 - 0. There is a sculpture in Springfield, where the first game was played. The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame is also in Springfield.