The First Basketball Game is played on December 21, 1891in Springfield, MA at the YMCA International Training School; which today is Springfield College.
The game was created by Dr. James Naismith in response to a request to come up with a new game students could play indoors during the winter that would help keep track and field runners in shape and would be relatively safe to play and would have a small amount of physical contact so that the players would not get injured in this game. More