The film is based on the 1986 novel by Winston Groom. Both center on the character of Forrest Gump. However, the film primarily focuses on the first eleven chapters of the novel, before skipping ahead to the end of the novel with the founding of Bubba Gump Shrimp Co. and the meeting with Forrest, Jr.
Basketball was invented in 1891 by physical education instructer  James Naismith at Springfield College in springfield. He created  the game so his phys-ed students could pl â¦ ay a sport in the winter  that was indoors.acts about Dr. James Naismith James Naismith was born in Almonte, Ontario in 1861. He was educated at McGill University and Presbyterian College in Montreal. He was the physical education teacher at McGill University (1887 to 1890) and at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts (1890 to 1895).
The man who invented basketball, Dr. James Naismith, was born in 1861 in a small Canadian township bordering Almonte, Ontario called Ramsay. As a youth he enjoyed playing many games including a medieval sport known as duck on a rock.