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Naismith wanted to continue his military career as America entered World War I in April 1917. He considered applying for an active duty commission as a U.S. Army chaplain, but there were two things working against him: he was 55 years old in 1917, and he was not an American citizen.
Dr. James Naismith is known world-wide as the inventor of basketball. He was born in 1861 in Ramsay township, near Almonte, Ontario, Canada. The concept of basketball was born from Naismith's school days in the area where he played a simple child's game known as duck-on-a-rock outside his one-room schoolhouse.