The first basketball court: Springfield College

In early December 1891, Canadian American Dr. James Naismith, a physical education professor and instructor at the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School ( YMCA ) ( today, Springfield College ) in Springfield, Massachusetts, USA ), was trying to keep his gym class active on a rainy day.

He graduated from Brookville High School in Lynchburg, Va., and from Baptist Bible College in Springfield, Missouri in 1956.

Hay was an alumnus of the Illinois State University in Springfield ( previously Hillsboro College ), which later became Carthage College when it moved to Carthage, IL in 1870.

The Empire 8 also has affiliate members in football ( Springfield College ) and field hockey ( Washington & Jefferson College ).

Fisher received an at-large bid into the NCAA Division III Tournament, in which they defeated Union College, Springfield College and Rowan University to reach the national semifinals in which they lost to Mount Union College, the defending national champions, by a score of 26-14.

After an observer, Alfred Halstead, noticed the volleying nature of the game at its first exhibition match in 1896, played at the International YMCA Training School ( now called Springfield College ), the game quickly became known as volleyball ( it was originally spelled as two words: " volley ball ").

* Central Bible College, an Assemblies of God institution of higher learning located in Springfield, Missouri

After the war, Hapgood began a twenty-year teaching career in the humanities through faculty appointments at Keystone College ( 1945 – 1947 ), Springfield College ( 1947 – 1952 ), Keene State College ( 1956 – 1966 ), and New England College ( 1966 – 1967 ), where he lectured in world and American history, anthropology, economics, and the history of science.

While at Springfield College, a student's question about the Lost Continent of Mu prompted a class project to investigate the lost continent of Atlantis, leading Hapgood to investigate possible ways that massive earth changes could occur and exposing him to the literature of Hugh Auchincloss Brown.

Category: Springfield College ( Massachusetts ) alumni

In 1891, James Naismith, a Canadian-American, invented basketball while studying at the YMCA International Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts ( later to be named Springfield College ).

This help included helping young men leave the camps to attend Springfield College and providing youth activities in the camps.

The education department has another building which used to be the former Springfield City School administration office at 49 E. College Ave, which is now owned by Wittenberg University.

The nearest private college is Bard College at Simon's Rock in Great Barrington, with other private colleges in Springfield.

This was taken after I came to live in Springfield, and it was made under the guidance of the Reverend Raymond Beardslee, a young preacher who came to the Congregational Church there at about the same time that I moved from New York.

* John M. Pierce ( 1886 – 1958 ) was one of the founders of the Springfield Telescope Makers.

In 2009, a highway in Missouri was named " Dr. Abraham Joshua Heschel Highway " after a Springfield, Missouri area Neo-Nazi group cleaned the stretch of highway as part of an " Adopt-A-Highway " plan.

Actor Clint Eastwood recalled seeing Wills when he was 18 or 19 ( 1948 or 1949 ) and working at a pulp mill in Springfield, Oregon.

He had a solo spot on the Opry ; but when that was cut, Atkins moved on to KWTO-AM in Springfield, Missouri.

Of the previously unreleased songs, " Down to the Wire " features the New Orleans pianist Dr. John with Buffalo Springfield on an item from their shelved Stampede album ; " Love Is a Rose " was a minor hit for Linda Ronstadt in 1975 ; " Winterlong " received a cover by Pixies on the Neil Young tribute album from 1989, The Bridge ; and " Campaigner " is a Young song critical of Richard Nixon.

The defining event of the Stone wing of the movement was the publication of the Last Will and Testament of The Springfield Presbytery, at Cane Ridge, Kentucky, in 1804.

Theodor Seuss Geisel was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, to Theodor Robert and Henrietta ( Seuss ) Geisel .< ref name =" early ">

Wray, a descendant of both Springfield, Massachusetts, settler William Pynchon and Mormon pioneers, was born on a ranch near Cardston, Alberta, Canada, to two Mormons, Elvina Marguerite Jones, who was from Salt Lake City, and Joseph Heber Wray, who was from Kingston upon Hull, England.

* American M1919 Browning machine gun: originally chambered for. 30-06 Springfield but has since been converted to a variety of calibers ; it was used as an infantry weapon ( light and support roles ) and also mounted on a variety of vehicles, aircraft and naval platforms.

This conversion was principally carried out at the Army's Springfield Armory arsenal repair shops.

Klein served as rabbi at Kadimoh Congregation in Springfield, Massachusetts from 1934 – 1953 ; Temple Emanu-El, Buffalo, New York, 1953 – 1968 ; Temple Shaarey Zedek, Buffalo, ( which was created from the merger of Emanu-El with Temple Beth David in 1968 ), 1968-1972.

A beloved Rabbi, he influenced generations of congregants and visiting students and, together with his wife who was an educator, founded Jewish day schools in both Springfield and Buffalo.

In 1852 John Hay went to the college at Springfield, and in 1855 was sent to Brown University, where he joined Theta Delta Chi.

Originally, the album was to be produced by Botnick and Neil Young, but Young bowed out due to his commitments to Buffalo Springfield.

" Bush was invited but did not attend the service because he was en route to Springfield, Illinois, to dedicate the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum.

The Mauser rifle was paralleled by Britain's ten-shot Lee-Enfield and America's 1903 Springfield Rifle models ( the latter pictured above ).

Following this single was " Son of a Preacher Man ", a cover of the Dusty Springfield song, which was never included on an album.

* Ha Ha Tonka, an indie rock band founded in Springfield, Missouri, but three members were raised in West Plains.

Springfield was founded by James Demint, a former teamster from Kentucky, in 1801.

In 1894, The Kelly Springfield Tire Company was founded.

The school was founded over thirty years ago, and has been educating many from Springfield and other surrounding cities such as Yellow Springs, Dayton, and Jamestown.

Wittenberg University is a Lutheran university that was founded in Springfield in 1845.

Clark State Community College was founded in 1962 under the name of the Springfield and Clark County Technical Education Program as a technical education college for Clark County, Ohio and the surrounding area.

The borough was originally part of Springfield Township, and grew up around Swarthmore College, which was founded in 1864.

Missouri State University ( MSU or Mo State formerly Southwest Missouri State University ) is a public university located in Springfield, Missouri, United States and founded in 1905.

Springfield School was founded in 1967 and is a special needs school for pupils with severe learning difficulties, Springfield School senior section is a self-contained unit, with some shared facilities, within the grounds of Wood Green School.

The institution was founded to educate African American men in theology and education and was located in Springfield Baptist Church, the oldest independent black church in the United States.

Following his primary defeat for Governor in 1972, Simon founded the Public Affairs Reporting graduate program at Sangamon State University in Springfield, Illinois, which helped launch the careers of more than 500 journalists.

Additionally, the Hull site allowed ample space for WBZ's shortwave station, which had been founded at Springfield as W1XAZ in November 1929 and later operated from Millis as W1XK, ultimately becoming WBOS.

Drury was founded as Springfield College in 1873 by Congregationalist church missionaries in the mold of other Congregationalist universities such as Dartmouth College and Yale University.

In 1895 Keller founded the Baltusrol Golf Club on he had bought in Springfield Township, Union County, New Jersey.

Junior Achievement was founded in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1919 to help educate young people moving from rural America to the country's booming cities about the means of production and free enterprise.

* Peter Pan Bus Lines was founded as Yellow Cab Air Line in Springfield, Massachusetts, which was purchased by Peter Carmen Picknelly in 1933.

The Red Barn restaurant was a fast-food restaurant chain that was founded in 1961 in Springfield, Ohio, by Don Six, Martin Levine and Jim Kirsch.

Friendly's was founded in 1935 in Springfield, Massachusetts by brothers Curtis Blake and S. Prestley Blake.

Friendly's was founded in 1935, at the height of the Great Depression by brothers Prestley and Curtis Blake in Springfield, Massachusetts.

The company was founded as Yellow Cab Air Line in Springfield, Massachusetts, where the company remains based, and was purchased by Peter Carmen Picknelly in 1933.

It was founded in 1905 as Springfield when the Natal government built a weir across the Little Tugela River.

Springfield Armory, Inc. is a firearms manufacturer and importer based in Geneseo, Illinois, founded in 1974.