{"id":2353,"date":"2018-10-01T17:07:37","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T17:07:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/?p=2353"},"modified":"2018-10-01T17:07:37","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T17:07:37","slug":"birth-of-basketball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/2018\/10\/01\/birth-of-basketball\/","title":{"rendered":"Birth of basketball?"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2354\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2354\" style=\"width: 1292px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/08\/Y-Gym-WM-06-1906-p310.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2354\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/08\/Y-Gym-WM-06-1906-p310.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1292\" height=\"894\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/08\/Y-Gym-WM-06-1906-p310.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/08\/Y-Gym-WM-06-1906-p310-300x208.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/08\/Y-Gym-WM-06-1906-p310-768x531.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/08\/Y-Gym-WM-06-1906-p310-1024x709.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1292px) 100vw, 1292px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2354\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">YMCA gymnasium in 1906.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is a picture to brighten your day!<\/p>\n<p>This shot is of the YMCA gymnasium in downtown Crawfordsville, circa 1906. Note the baskets still gathered at the bottom. The floor had many a potential star, including one of the greatest coaches ever to come out of Indiana &#8211; Piggy Lambert of Purdue. It was Piggy who coached John Wooden who was later known as the the &#8220;Wizard of Westwood.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Much has been made of the early adoption of the game by the folks in Crawfordsville. For a closer and more detailed look at the facts, I would recommend a paper by S. Chandley Lighty. Here is a link:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scholarworks.iu.edu\/journals\/index.php\/imh\/article\/view\/22910\">https:\/\/scholarworks.iu.edu\/journals\/index.php\/imh\/article\/view\/22910<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Lighty presents a clear, well-reasoned\u00a0 argument. I\u00a0 highly recommend reading it.<\/p>\n<p>All best,<\/p>\n<p>Beth Swift<\/p>\n<p>Archivist<\/p>\n<p>Wabash College<\/p>\n<p>Crawfordsville<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Here is a picture to brighten your day! This shot is of the YMCA gymnasium in downtown Crawfordsville, circa 1906. Note the baskets still gathered at the bottom. The floor had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"w_featured_image_url":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/9\/2018\/08\/Y-Gym-WM-06-1906-p310-1024x709.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2353"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2370,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2353\/revisions\/2370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.wabash.edu\/dearoldwabash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}