TODAY IS NATIONAL BASKETBALL DAY! AND A LOOK AT CROTON BASKETBALL 1916 THROUGH...

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TODAY IS NATIONAL BASKETBALL DAY!

Click on the photos and links for just a few blasts from Croton basketball past and more recent days----1916 THROUGH 2020....

And did you know that....

Basketball is one of the most popular team sports in the world and we celebrate it today, on the anniversary of the birth of James Naismith, its creator. Naismith was born in 1861 in Almonte, Ontario, Canada. 

After leaving a position as the athletics director at McGill University in Montreal, Naismith came to the United States—a country where he would eventually gain citizenship—to the YMCA International Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, to teach physical education. 

His superior asked him to come up with an indoor sport that could be played during winter, which would be fair and not too rough.

In December 1891, Naismith came up with "basket ball."

READ MORE ABOUT THIS VERY POPULAR SPORT AND JAMES NAISMITH AT   https://www.checkiday.com/17a6609f3b3e30f6ad0d12b1640acceb/basketball-day

SEE EVEN MORE FABULOUS VINTAGE CROTON BASKETBALL IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER AT THE LINKS BELOW---for even more, visit the archives of THE CROTON HISTORICAL SOCIETY:

--THE 2018 MACYLIM TOURNAMENT PHOTOS; The 38th Annual Robert E. Mayclim Basketball Tournament took place once again at Croton-Harmon High School this weekend, with both the Croton-Harmon boys and girls varsity basketball teams making it into the finals against Dobbs Ferry High School teams, only to lose in tough games. READ AND SEE PHOTOS AT https://adobe.ly/2SVa5hp 

--COACH DON DAUBNEY https://bit.ly/3k2tfiN

--CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL--GIRLS BASKETBALL FINAL STAT LEADERS 2019-2020 https://bit.ly/34Zy8op

--PHOTO ALBUM HOOPS FOR HEROES 2019;  https://bit.ly/2Gyw1yt

--2020 PHOTOS, CONGRATULATIONS ANNA ENG; COMMITS TO FAIRLEIGH UNIVERSITY; SEE PHOTOS HERE AND HERE.  

--MORE ABOUT THE 1929 CROTON GIRLS BASKETBALL TEAM AT  https://everythingcroton.blogspot.com/2012/02/more-croton-memories-2012-1929-croton.html

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