Naismith

[ US /ˈneɪsmɪθ, ˈneɪzmɪθ/ ]
NOUN
  1. United States educator (born in Canada) who invented the game of basketball (1861-1939)
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How To Use Naismith In A Sentence

  • Naismith was recruited into the army at the start of World War I, but suffered gassing in the trenches which ruined his health.
  • Steven Whittaker had found Kirk Broadfoot with a deep cross, which the full-back headed down into Naismith's path. Steven Naismith strike ends Rangers miserable European home run
  • There Naismith worked, as best he could given his poor health, as a plasterer and slater.
  • Naismith watches would-be owners interact with the horse and visits the site where the animal would live, often several times.
  • When asked for his prediction, John McCain fondly recalled the time he teased James Naismith about his new invention, telling him nobody would care about a game with a bunch of guys running up and down a court trying to put a ball into a vegetable basket. Obama switches prediction: now says it'll be Celtics in six
  • She ended up in Springfield again in 1996, but this time she was there to join the game's immortals in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.
  • Worse was to come for Maguire who, in bundling over Naismith, earned a second yellow card of the afternoon and an early bath. Kenny Miller triggers Rangers revival against Aberdeen
  • Naismith invented basketball over a century ago.
  • The game of basketball, devised by Canadian doctor James Naismith, was first played in the world, at Springfield in Massachusetts.
  • Basketball was invented by a Canadian doctor , James Naismith .
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