by 1892, basketball had grown so popular on campus that dennis horkenbach (editor-in-chief of "the triangle", the springfield college newspaper) featured it in an article called "a new game". there were calls to name the new game "naismith ball", but naismith refused. by 1893, basketball was introduced in other countries by the ymca movement. from springfield, naismith went to denver where he studied for a medical degree and in 1898 he joined the university of kansas faculty at lawrence, kansas.