A soccer ball, according to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basketball#Early_basketball. A soccer ball was used to play the first basketball game.
the first basketball was a soccer ball
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 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 ball game was with a bucket( used as a hoop. And if the ball made it into the bucket, you would climb up a latter to get it
the first basketball was a soccer ball
When basketball was invented, the ball used was a soccer ball.
The first basketball wasent an auctual basketball it was a soccer ball.
The equipment that was used in 1892 for basketball was mainly a ball. The ball used was a soccer ball as the basket ball had not been created.
A soccer ball.
A soccer ball
A soccer ball.
It was a heavy ball, Kinda like our today "Bowling Ball" It was slighty lighter to allow the ball to enter the hoop.
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.
The first basketball hoop was a peach basket.
the soccer ball was never used
A peach basket. Whenever somebody made a basket, somebody would have to climb a ladder and get the ball out. Also, the first ball used in basketball was a soccer ball.