Hello friends, as it says in the title, I will talk about the first basketball game, it is a story related to my other publication:https://steemit.com/basketball/@joseluisgr/history-of-basketball-the-principle,
This story will be short but interesting.
Well, let's start, everything would happen on a day like March 11, 1892, the first basketball game was played with the public (about 200 people) at the Memory Hill gym in Springfield, where teachers and students of YMCA played. of which the students won by a score of 5 to 1.
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that date is very far since we speak of 127 years since it happened, what happened in that match could be known thanks to a radio program of 1939 in which Naismith himself mentions the limits of that day.
"I showed them the two peach baskets I had hung on both sides of the gym before I explained to them that the idea of the game was to throw the ball into the basket of the team (at that time formed by nine players) opposite." I blew the whistle and so on. started the first game of basketball, nothing was as I had thought if not the opposite, ** "The boys began to charge against each other, to hit and punch each other until end up fighting in the middle of the gym as if everything were worth. That was really a killing. "
In that pitched battle there were, purple eyes, a dislocated shoulder and even a player came to be unconscious, all this came to the creation of the first rules for the newly created sport, (this I speak more deeply in my other post) . The main rule to stop this violence "was not to allow the ball to run in the hands, that ended with the charges and punches," says the professor in that program.
And the rest was history, each season aggravated something more so that this beautiful sport is as we know it today, before in the 80s and 90s dominated the quintets with high and dominant pivots in the paint, now it is just the opposite not so high players and with a lethal exterior shot.
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here take out the information: https://www.ymca.es/actualidad/el-primer-partido-de-baloncesto-se-jugo-en-ymca