Who is the father of basketball?

Dr james naismith is the inventor of basketball, a Canadian, and the first person to advocate the use of helmets in American football. He was also the first basketball coach to assemble five players to form a team. 189 1 year, james naismith was a physical education teacher at the YMCA International Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts (later Springfield College) and an American football coach at McGill University. Naismith 1898 came to the University of Kansas, and then studied in Denver, becoming a professor and the first basketball coach of the University of Kansas. 1936 In August, when naismith participated in the Berlin Olympic Games, he was awarded honorary president of the International Basketball Federation. Naismith died on 1939. In order to remember this basketball pioneer forever, 1950 1 The first FIBA Central Bureau meeting held during the World Men's Basketball Championship decided to name the gold cup of the World Men's Basketball Championship "Naismith Cup".