A Symposium of Basket Ball collected by Luther H. Gulick (June 1909)

A reprinted manuscript collected and arranged by Luther H. Gulick called "A Symposium of Basket Ball." It was originally printed in the American Physical Education Review and published in June 1909. The article is a collection of writings on Basketball by different Authors, including W.P. Brown, George L. Meylan, James Huff McCurdy, and E. B. De Groot among others. Most of the writings talk about the problems with Basketball at the time. The manuscript is 16 pages long with the first page being a cover page for the manuscript. Originally the manuscript was part of bound volumes of writings by Luther H. Gulick. This manuscript was the 17th document in volume 3.Luther Gulick came to the School for Christian Workers, now Springfield College, in 1887 where he helped found the physical training department and served as its first director. Gulick also created the Springfield College's seal, the inverted triangle, whose three sides represent the whole man - in spirit, mind and body. The symbol was first adopted by the school's students in 1891. Later, it was adopted by the YMCA and is still the basis for the symbol they use today. While at Springfield, Gulick directed James Naismith, who was a teacher at the school, to create a winter sport to be played indoors. Soon after, Naismith created the game of basketball. Gulick left Springfield College in 1900 to work as the physical education director at the Pratt Institute High School in Brooklyn. In 1910, Gulick and his wife Charlotte founded the Camp Fire Girls of America, a youth movement for girls which emphasized camping, outdoor activities and preparing women for work outside the home. Gulick died at his summer home in Maine at the age of 52.This document was document 17 in bound volume number 3 in a group of bound volumes of Luther H. Gulick.