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Dr. James Naismith
Dr. James Naismith attended McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada to graduate as a medical doctor, primarily interested in sports physiology (sports science), and a presbyterian minister (George Laughead n.p.). Dr. Naismith started developing the idea for the game of basketball during his schooldays when he would play a game called duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse. The game consisted of attempting to knock the “duck” off the top of a big rock by tossing another smaller rock at it.
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