On Basketball Courts, by Arthur J. Daley (January 19, 1937)

A newspaper article titled "On the Basketball Courts" written by Arthur J. Daley and published in the New York Times on January 19, 1937. The article talks about a new expert in the history of basketball, Springfield College alum George Bernert (Class of 1924). He spoke at the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association on January 18, 1937. He spoke about his staging an original basketball game at the Madison Square Garden's between the matches being played by Long Island vs. Tennessee and St. Francis and Springfield College. The article goes on to describe what he said, including the original rules, how the game came to be created, what happened during the first game, and some other early facts about the movement of the game throughout the world. He goes on to talk about women playing, the changes in the rule. The article was actually sent to Springfield College by George Bernert so that we would have it.James A. Naismith (November 6, 1861 – November 28, 1939), known as "The Father of Basketball" was born in Almonte, Ontario. When he was nine, both of his parents died of typhoid fever and he was raised by his uncle, who later financed Naismith's way through college. He earned his theological degree from McGill University and graduated from Springfield College, then the YMCA Training School, in 1891. After graduation, he was hired as a faculty member, where he taught for five years. It is in his first year as a faculty member at Springfield College that he created the game of Basketball as an activity for an unruly class. In 1895, Naismith enrolled at the Gross Medical School in Denver and received his M.D. in 1898. In that same year, Naismith took the position of department head of physical education at the University of Kansas, where he remained until his death