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From: DEVOSCM@RUG.NL (Marco de Vos, Kapteyn Lab Groningen)
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Subject: RE: Basketball
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Date: 12 Jan 90 17:31:00 GMT
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>In 1891, James A. Naismith was hired by the
>Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) to develop a team sport that
>could be played indoors during the winter.  I looked up Naismith and
>found that he had given up a promising athletic career to study for
>the ministry.

YMCA also "invented" volleyball, especially to be played in refugee-campments
where there was little room for playing games like football.

>     (I've heard the YMCA was a lot more Christ-centered back then than
>it is today.)

They definetly were, and in many countries still are quite christ-centered.

In His Love,

Marco.