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The 19th century

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Adult students pass a leather football beneath a closed peach basket fixed to a wooden gym gallery.Sport

The first basketball game at Springfield in December 1891

James Naismith’s first basketball game was played on December 21, 1891. Its eighteen participants formed teams of nine, using a soccer ball and peach baskets rather than modern equipment.

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