List of Famous people born in Mississippi Mills, Canada

James Naismith

First Name James

Last Name Naismith

Born on November 6, 1860

Died on November 28, 1939 (aged 79)

Born in Canada, Ontario, Mississippi Mills

Height 179 cm | 5'10

James Naismith was a Canadian-American physical educator, physician, Christian chaplain, sports coach, and inventor of the game of basketball. After moving to the United States, he wrote the original basketball rule book and founded the University of Kansas basketball program. Naismith lived to see basketball adopted as an Olympic demonstration sport in 1904 and as an official event at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, as well as the birth of the National Invitation Tournament (1938) and the NCAA Tournament (1939).

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