James Naismith’s original rules of basketball published for the first time 130 years ago this hour #OnThisDay #OTD (Jan 15 1892)


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(Friday, January 15, 1892) — The “Original 13 Rules of Basket Ball” — devised in December 1891 by James Naismith, a graduate instructor at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts — were published today in the school’s magazine, The Triangle.