1. Noah Olson 2/21/12 Period 2 Computer#27 Clip art

2. Lemelson MIT, Basketball (Game),Feb 23,2012, http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/naismith.html http://web.mit.edu/invent/iow/naismith.html James Naismith invented the game basketball.

3. Invention: Basketball (Game) The first official basketball arrived in1909 In 1936 basketball became an Olympic sport The women's professional basketball league was established in1978 An estimated 300 million people played the sport basketball world wide just in 2003 At first the game basketball was with a soccer ball and a peach basket, eventually they put a hole at the bottom of the peach basket so they didn’t have to climb up to get the ball every time someone scored

4. Inventor: James Naismith James was born on November 6, 1861 He died on November 28, 1939 He and his three siblings were orphaned when both parents died of typhoid fever in 1871 He won a gold and silver medal for “Best All- Around Athlete in 1885 and 1887 James continued his education, studying theology at Presbyterian awarded him with his Master of Divinity Degree