January 20, 1892
the first basketball was a soccer ball
Soccer was known and played before Basketball. At first the game was said to involve elements of American Football, Soccer and Hockey but these were just a means to describing the new game to outsiders, so Soccer ball was used until the first Basketball was manufactured in 1894.
A soccer ball.
no they used a real basket insted of a net and basketball players used to wear tights.
When Dr. Naismith invented basketball he didn't have a 'basketball' to use. So, he looked around his gymnasium and decided that a soccer ball was the right size and he used that.
The first basketball wasent an auctual basketball it was a soccer ball.
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the first basketball was a soccer ball
Soccer was known and played before Basketball. At first the game was said to involve elements of American Football, Soccer and Hockey but these were just a means to describing the new game to outsiders, so Soccer ball was used until the first Basketball was manufactured in 1894.
When basketball was invented, the ball used was a soccer ball.
The first professional Basketball game ever played was in 1896, in Trenton, New Jersey.
Because when basketball was first played they used peach baskets. Thus, The name BASKETball.
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A soccer ball.
A soccer ball
In like 1893
The first basket for basketball used was accutally a peach basket and basketball was invented by a canidian named James Naismith! :)