Webquest

Coach Robinson’s Physical Education Class

History of Basketball

• _____________________ came up with an idea for a different kind of sport in 1891 called basketball.

http://www.gnosi.gr/sports/history.htm

                              

History of Basketball

• He called it basketball because it was originally played with a soccer ball and two peach ________ and today it has become one of the greatest sports ever.Mr Naismith was a professor at Springfield College in ______________ and was asked to invent a sport for the season in between _______ and ________.

http://www.gnosi.gr/sports/history.htm

Famous Players

• Selected after junior season by the _______________ in the first round (third pick overall) of the 1984 NBA Draft..

                                                                                                                                                                                    

http://www.nba.com/playerfile/michael_jordan/index.html

Famous Player

• Athlete, actor, musician. Born Shaquille Rashaun O'Neal on March __, 1972 in Newark, New Jersey. O'Neal attended ______ High School in San Antonio, Texas.