During 1881 in Springfeild, the game of basketball was created. This all happened during a harsh winter at a YMCA when a man by the name of Dr. Luther Gulick gave James Naismith a task to invent a indoor game that would be athletic and would occupy their time. Thus the game of basketball was created with 13 basic rules added to it. Although the first game was not the basketball that we know and love today this was the time of trial and error. This first game contained nine on nine, was played with a soccer ball, and was played with peach baskets instead of two goals. During this game the dribble was not added instead they ran with the ball, and people were often tackled. So the game once called Naismith ball, but quickly refused by Dr. James was spread nation wide by the YMCA by 1893.
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