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John J. Thompson, Eugene S. Libby, Edwin P. Ruggles, William R. Chase, T. Duncan Patton, Frank Mahan, Finlay G. MacDonald, William H. Davis and Lyman Archibald, who defeated George Weller, Wilbert Carey, Ernest Hildner, Raymond Kaighn, Genzabaro Ishikawa, Benjamin S. French, Franklin Barnes, George Day and Henry Gelan

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The first people to play organized Basketball were the students of Joe Naismith's physical education class.

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it started very long ago, where the native Americans rode on horses and used a duck as the ball (or animal skin). they had some thing similar to a rim that was the "goal"

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The first basketball players were the students in Dr. James Naismith's physical education class at the YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusettes, USA.

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