<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith" id="mwgA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="James Naismith">James Naismith</a>, a Canadian-American gym teacher at <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Springfield_College" id="mwgQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Springfield College">Springfield College</a>, publishes the first rules for the game now known as <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball" id="mwgg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Basketball">basketball</a> and brings it to his class, which then plays the first game of basketball.<sup about="#mwt48" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"}}' id="cite_ref-6" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_21#cite_note-6" id="mwgw" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 6;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwhA">[6]</span></a></sup><sup about="#mwt52" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-7"}}' id="cite_ref-7" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./December_21#cite_note-7" id="mwhQ" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 7;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwhg">[7]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-6"><cite about="#mwt45" class="citation news cs1" id="CITEREFGriffiths2019">Griffiths, Sian (20 September 2019). <a class="external text" href="https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-11348053" id="mwBdo" rel="mw:ExtLink nofollow">"The Canadian who invented basketball"</a>. <i id="mwBds"><a href="./BBC" id="mwBdw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="BBC">BBC</a></i><span class="reference-accessdate" id="mwBd0">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap" id="mwBd4">21 December</span> 2023</span>.</cite><span about="#mwt45" class="Z3988" id="mwBd8" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&amp;rft.genre=article&amp;rft.jtitle=BBC&amp;rft.atitle=The+Canadian+who+invented+basketball&amp;rft.date=2019-09-20&amp;rft.aulast=Griffiths&amp;rft.aufirst=Sian&amp;rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.bbc.com%2Fnews%2Fworld-us-canada-11348053&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ADecember+21"></span></span>