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Глава 1: История и истоки

10 тестов · 100 фактов · обновлено 24 октября 2026 г. · markdown

Curiosities from basketball's past: the game's first months, Naismith's own life, cages and early rules, the game's first homes abroad, college firsts, the Black Fives and the barrier-breakers, the first foreign players, Canada, Springfield and the leagues and teams that vanished.

1.11The Game's First Months

How the game got its name, the first rules, the first public game and the first drawing of it.

Тест 1the first months of the gameПройти тест

  1. Naismith laughed the idea off, and Mahan then proposed 'basket ball'.

    Источник: Springfield College archives (springfield.edu); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  2. Players knocked a stone off a rock by throwing another stone in an arc.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  3. 'Pop' Stebbins had no boxes of that size and found the baskets in a storeroom.

    Источник: Springfield College archives (springfield.edu); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  4. The rules gave five minutes' rest between the halves.

    Источник: Springfield College archives (springfield.edu); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  5. The students won 5-1.

    Источник: Springfield College archives (springfield.edu); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  6. They crowded into the small Springfield gym.

    Источник: Springfield College archives (springfield.edu); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  7. Stagg went on to coach football at the University of Chicago for 41 seasons.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  8. Autumn 1891, December 1891 and March 1892.

    Источник: Springfield College archives (springfield.edu); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  9. December 1891, March 1893 and February 1895.

    Источник: Springfield College archives (springfield.edu); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  10. Genzabaro Ishikawa sketched the gym, the baskets and the players.

    Источник: Springfield College archives (springfield.edu); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

1.12Naismith Away From the Court

Naismith the student, doctor, Kansas teacher and coach, and the rules he left behind.

Тест 1James Naismith's life beyond the inventionПройти тест

  1. He was raised by an uncle near Almonte, Ontario.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  2. He was trained for the ministry before turning to physical education.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  3. He qualified as a doctor at Gross Medical College.

    Источник: University of Kansas Athletics, 'James Naismith' and Allen Fieldhouse history (kuathletics.com) · знание

  4. He lectured American troops on health and conduct.

    Источник: University of Kansas Athletics, 'James Naismith' and Allen Fieldhouse history (kuathletics.com) · знание

  5. He had lived in the United States for more than thirty years by then.

    Источник: University of Kansas Athletics, 'James Naismith' and Allen Fieldhouse history (kuathletics.com) · знание

  6. The two typed pages fetched $4,338,500 at Sotheby's in New York.

    Источник: Sotheby's, 'James Naismith's Founding Rules of Basket Ball', sale result, December 2010 (sothebys.com) · знание

  7. He had turned 30 in November that year.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  8. His boyhood home, McGill and the Presbyterian College, the YMCA school from 1890 and Kansas from 1898.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  9. 1941, two years after his death; 1968; and 2010.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  10. The arena honours the pupil and the floor honours the teacher.

    Источник: University of Kansas Athletics, 'James Naismith' and Allen Fieldhouse history (kuathletics.com) · знание

1.13Cages and Early Rules

Fenced courts, a free-throw specialist, the first time limits and the Buffalo Germans.

Тест 1fenced courts and early rulesПройти тест

  1. From 1924 the fouled player had to take his own free throws.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  2. It was brought in to stop teams stalling in their own half.

    Источник: NCAA, 'What we know about the first college basketball game ever played' (ncaa.com) · знание

  3. The Buffalo club later won 111 games in a row.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  4. Players raced after loose balls into the crowd, one reason courts were fenced in.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  5. Tall centres had been parking under the basket for easy shots.

    Источник: NCAA, 'What we know about the first college basketball game ever played' (ncaa.com) · знание

  6. Opaque wooden boards blocked the view from seats behind the baskets.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  7. The mesh was hard and sharp, and bodies were thrown into it on loose balls.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  8. 1895, about 1914 and 1923.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  9. The 1890s, 1932 and the 1960s.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  10. The fence kept the ball in play, so there was no out of bounds.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

1.14Игра выходит за границы

France, the YMCA in China, Brazil and the Philippines, the Far Eastern Games and the 1919 Inter-Allied Games.

Тест 1basketball's first homes outside the United StatesПройти тест

  1. Rideout was one of Naismith's students in Springfield.

    Источник: UCJG Paris (YMCA de Paris), 14 rue de Trévise: 'la plus ancienne salle de basket du monde' (ucjgparis.org) · знание

  2. Basketball was on the programme from the very first games.

    Источник: Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas, history (sbp.ph); Olympic World Library, Far Eastern Championship Games reports (library.olympics.com) · знание

  3. Tianjin is often called the cradle of Chinese basketball.

    Источник: FIBA, 'Basketball in China' (fiba.basketball); Tianjin YMCA history · знание

  4. Augusto Shaw introduced it at Mackenzie College.

    Источник: Confederação Brasileira de Basketball, 'História do basquete no Brasil' (cbb.com.br) · знание

  5. The games were held about every two years until 1934.

    Источник: Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas, history (sbp.ph); Olympic World Library, Far Eastern Championship Games reports (library.olympics.com) · знание

  6. Brown organised the Far Eastern Games from 1913, where basketball was played.

    Источник: Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas, history (sbp.ph); Inter-Allied Games official report, 1919 · знание

  7. American servicemen had learned the game at YMCA huts during the war.

    Источник: Inter-Allied Games official report, Paris 1919; International Encyclopedia of the First World War (1914-1918-online.net) · знание

  8. 1913, 1919 and 1932.

    Источник: Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas, history (sbp.ph); Olympic World Library, Far Eastern Championship Games reports (library.olympics.com) · знание

  9. 1893, 1896 and around 1910.

    Источник: FIBA (fiba.basketball); national federations' histories · знание

  10. It was named after General John Pershing and handed to France after the games.

    Источник: Inter-Allied Games official report, Paris 1919; International Encyclopedia of the First World War (1914-1918-online.net) · знание

1.15College Basketball's First Steps

The first college games, five a side, the NAIA, the NIT and the first NCAA tournament.

Тест 1the early college gameПройти тест

  1. Minnesota's School of Agriculture won 9-3 at Hamline, in Saint Paul.

    Источник: NCAA, 'What we know about the first college basketball game ever played' (ncaa.com) · знание

  2. Hamline lost on its own floor.

    Источник: NCAA, 'What we know about the first college basketball game ever played' (ncaa.com) · знание

  3. His side met Chicago in Iowa City in January 1896.

    Источник: NCAA, 'What we know about the first college basketball game ever played' (ncaa.com) · знание

  4. The Iowa line-up was a YMCA side that happened to study at the university.

    Источник: NCAA, 'What we know about the first college basketball game ever played' (ncaa.com) · знание

  5. It began for small colleges and is still played every March.

    Источник: NAIA, 'Men's Basketball Championship history' (naia.org) · знание

  6. Oregon, the 'Tall Firs', beat Ohio State in the final in Evanston.

    Источник: NCAA, 'Men's Basketball Championship history' (ncaa.com) · знание

  7. Temple beat Colorado in the final at Madison Square Garden.

    Источник: National Invitation Tournament history (ncaa.com/nit) · знание

  8. 1895, 1896, 1938 and 1939.

    Источник: NCAA, 'What we know about the first college basketball game ever played' (ncaa.com) · знание

  9. The 1940s, the 1950s and the late 1960s.

    Источник: NCAA, 'What we know about the first college basketball game ever played' (ncaa.com) · знание

  10. Neither side used a substitute in the whole game.

    Источник: NCAA, 'What we know about the first college basketball game ever played' (ncaa.com) · знание

1.16Black Fives and Breaking Barriers

The Black Fives era, the Rens and the players and coaches who broke the colour line.

Тест 1the Black Fives and the barrier-breakersПройти тест

  1. Henderson learned the game at Harvard's summer school.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, 'New York Renaissance' and 'Edwin Bancroft Henderson' (hoophall.com) · знание

  2. From 1904 to 1950 all-Black clubs and church teams played across the country.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, 'New York Renaissance' and 'Edwin Bancroft Henderson' (hoophall.com) · знание

  3. Douglas ran the team for more than twenty years.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, 'New York Renaissance' and 'Edwin Bancroft Henderson' (hoophall.com) · знание

  4. He played for the New York Knicks in 1947-48.

    Источник: NBA History (nba.com/history) · знание

  5. He won gold in London and later played in the 1953 NBA All-Star Game.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  6. The Rens often played well over 100 games a season on the road.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, 'New York Renaissance' and 'Edwin Bancroft Henderson' (hoophall.com) · знание

  7. Russell, Sam Jones, K.C. Jones, Satch Sanders and Willie Naulls started together.

    Источник: NBA History (nba.com/history) · знание

  8. 1904, 1923, 1947 and 1950.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, 'New York Renaissance' and 'Edwin Bancroft Henderson' (hoophall.com) · знание

  9. 1959, 1963 and 2002.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  10. The floor was cleared for dancing after the games.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, 'New York Renaissance' and 'Edwin Bancroft Henderson' (hoophall.com) · знание

1.17The First Foreign Players in the NBA

Biasatti, Thompson, Marčiulionis, Sabonis and the first picks and MVPs from abroad.

Тест 1the first players from abroad in the NBAПройти тест

  1. Born in Italy and raised in Canada, he played for the Toronto Huskies.

    Источник: NBA History (nba.com/history) · знание

  2. He played first base for the Philadelphia Athletics in 1949.

    Источник: Canada Basketball (basketball.ca); NBA History, 'The first game: Toronto Huskies v New York Knicks, 1946' (nba.com) · знание

  3. Portland took him first overall.

    Источник: NBA History (nba.com/history) · знание

  4. The Lithuanian guard joined the Golden State Warriors.

    Источник: NBA History (nba.com/history) · знание

  5. Soviet rules and injuries kept him in Europe for nine years.

    Источник: NBA History (nba.com/history) · знание

  6. The Italian forward went to the Toronto Raptors.

    Источник: NBA History (nba.com/history) · знание

  7. Parker's Spurs swept the Cleveland Cavaliers.

    Источник: NBA History (nba.com/history) · знание

  8. 1978, 1984 and 2006.

    Источник: NBA History (nba.com/history) · знание

  9. 1946, 1985, 1989 and 1995.

    Источник: NBA History (nba.com/history) · знание

  10. Houston picked the Chinese centre in 2002.

    Источник: NBA History (nba.com/history) · знание

1.18Basketball and Canada

The first NBA basket in Toronto, the one-season Huskies, the Raptors and Canada's first picks.

Тест 1Naismith's homeland and the NBAПройти тест

  1. The Knicks guard scored a lay-up early in the game in Toronto.

    Источник: Canada Basketball (basketball.ca); NBA History, 'The first game: Toronto Huskies v New York Knicks, 1946' (nba.com) · знание

  2. It was the home of the Toronto Maple Leafs ice hockey team.

    Источник: Canada Basketball (basketball.ca); NBA History, 'The first game: Toronto Huskies v New York Knicks, 1946' (nba.com) · знание

  3. Part of the baseball stadium was curtained off for the court.

    Источник: NBA History (nba.com/history) · знание

  4. They folded after 1946-47; Toronto had no NBA team again until 1995.

    Источник: Canada Basketball (basketball.ca); NBA History, 'The first game: Toronto Huskies v New York Knicks, 1946' (nba.com) · знание

  5. The Vancouver Grizzlies moved to Memphis in 2001.

    Источник: NBA History (nba.com/history) · знание

  6. Cleveland took him; Wiggins went first a year later.

    Источник: NBA History (nba.com/history) · знание

  7. They beat the Golden State Warriors in six games.

    Источник: NBA History (nba.com/history) · знание

  8. 1946, 1995-96, 2001 and 2019.

    Источник: Canada Basketball (basketball.ca); NBA History, 'The first game: Toronto Huskies v New York Knicks, 1946' (nba.com) · знание

  9. 2013, 2014 and 2019.

    Источник: NBA History (nba.com/history) · знание

  10. Nostrand stood about 6 ft 8 in.

    Источник: Canada Basketball (basketball.ca); NBA History, 'The first game: Toronto Huskies v New York Knicks, 1946' (nba.com) · знание

1.19Springfield, Birthplace of the Game

Springfield College, the Hall of Fame's buildings and the city's ties to the game.

Тест 1Springfield and the Hall of FameПройти тест

  1. It had been the International YMCA College since 1912.

    Источник: Springfield College archives (springfield.edu); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  2. The first building stood on the Springfield College campus.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  3. The New York barnstormers of the 1920s were honoured as a team.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  4. Naismith, Phog Allen and George Mikan were among the first.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  5. Each class is enshrined at a ceremony in Springfield.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  6. The building looks out over the river in downtown Springfield.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  7. It is given each year at the enshrinement weekend.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  8. 1968, 1985 and 2002.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  9. 1975, 2009 and 2020.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  10. The silver sphere is lit at night.

    Источник: Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

1.20Leagues and Teams That Vanished

The ABA's striped ball, the Spirits' deal and the early NBA teams that folded.

Тест 1leagues and teams that no longer existПройти тест

  1. They had won the ABA title only the year before.

    Источник: NBA History, 'ABA' and defunct franchises (nba.com); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  2. Julius Erving led them past Denver in the final.

    Источник: NBA History, 'ABA' and defunct franchises (nba.com); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  3. They were paid for decades until a 2014 settlement.

    Источник: NBA History, 'ABA' and defunct franchises (nba.com); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  4. He took them to the 1949 finals before moving on.

    Источник: NBA History, 'ABA' and defunct franchises (nba.com); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  5. The Sheboygan Red Skins played only that one NBA season.

    Источник: NBA History (nba.com/history) · знание

  6. Stars of Kentucky's title-winning college side owned and played for the team.

    Источник: NBA History (nba.com/history) · знание

  7. Today's Washington Wizards are a later franchise that took the Bullets name.

    Источник: NBA History (nba.com/history) · знание

  8. 1947, 1950 (out of the NBA), 1954 and 1976.

    Источник: NBA History (nba.com/history) · знание

  9. 1946, 1961 and 1967.

    Источник: NBA History, 'ABA' and defunct franchises (nba.com); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

  10. Mikan had been the first great centre of the NBA.

    Источник: NBA History, 'ABA' and defunct franchises (nba.com); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com) · знание

Источники

Primary/official sources only, no Wikipedia citations: the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, the NBA, FIBA, the EuroLeague, the NCAA, the WNBA, clubs' and universities' own histories, auction houses' published results and named reputable media.

  • Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com)26
  • NBA History (nba.com/history)20
  • Springfield College archives (springfield.edu); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com)9
  • NCAA, 'What we know about the first college basketball game ever played' (ncaa.com)9
  • Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, 'New York Renaissance' and 'Edwin Bancroft Henderson' (hoophall.com)6
  • Canada Basketball (basketball.ca); NBA History, 'The first game: Toronto Huskies v New York Knicks, 1946' (nba.com)6
  • NBA History, 'ABA' and defunct franchises (nba.com); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com)6
  • University of Kansas Athletics, 'James Naismith' and Allen Fieldhouse history (kuathletics.com)4
  • Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas, history (sbp.ph); Olympic World Library, Far Eastern Championship Games reports (library.olympics.com)3
  • Inter-Allied Games official report, Paris 1919; International Encyclopedia of the First World War (1914-1918-online.net)2
  • Sotheby's, 'James Naismith's Founding Rules of Basket Ball', sale result, December 2010 (sothebys.com)1
  • UCJG Paris (YMCA de Paris), 14 rue de Trévise: 'la plus ancienne salle de basket du monde' (ucjgparis.org)1
  • FIBA, 'Basketball in China' (fiba.basketball); Tianjin YMCA history1
  • Confederação Brasileira de Basketball, 'História do basquete no Brasil' (cbb.com.br)1
  • Samahang Basketbol ng Pilipinas, history (sbp.ph); Inter-Allied Games official report, 19191
  • FIBA (fiba.basketball); national federations' histories1
  • NAIA, 'Men's Basketball Championship history' (naia.org)1
  • NCAA, 'Men's Basketball Championship history' (ncaa.com)1
  • National Invitation Tournament history (ncaa.com/nit)1