Friday, December 2, 2011

The First 13 Rules of Basketball

Here are three interesting rules from the first 13 original rules of basketball, which are different from todays rules in some cases. Tell me what you think about these three rules!

  1. If either side make three consecutive fouls it shall count as a goal for the opponents (consecutive means without the opponents in the meantime making a foul).
  2. When the ball goes out of bounds, it shall be thrown into the field and played by the first person touching it. In case of dispute the umpire shall throw it straight into the field. The thrower-in is allowed five seconds. If he holds it longer, it shall go to the opponent. If any side persists in delaying the game, the umpire shall call a foul on them.
  3. The umpire shall be judge of the men and shall note the fouls and notify the referee when three consecutive fouls have been made. He shall have the power to disqualify men according to Rule 5.
The rest of the 13 rules- http://www.kansasheritage.org/people/naismith.html
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10 comments:

  1. JasonDecember 5, 2011 at 11:04 AM

    This is a interesting idea, teaching the readers about the older rules; however this confuses me about the rules of basketball now. There is no umpire in basketball it is called a ref. I understand why you are explaining about the history of basketball; however, I think it should be more applicable to today.

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  2. AnonymousDecember 5, 2011 at 11:05 AM

    I agree entirely i am from spain and even i know that those rules are now absord

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  3. Mr. CDecember 5, 2011 at 11:07 AM

    Hey Jason, so what I did was actually choose just the three rules that I found interesting because they were quite different from todays rules. If you check out the website, actually a lot of the rules do apply to todays rules, but those are not exactly fun to read, so I thought I would choose some interesting ones.

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  4. Mr. CDecember 5, 2011 at 11:09 AM

    Oh, and the rules in america are the same... so you should know, other then the three point line, the rules are same for international play.

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  5. AnonymousDecember 5, 2011 at 11:13 AM

    I know their the same and the international three point line is much better than the US three point line, and Spain National team would destroy US's national team.

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  6. Mr. CDecember 7, 2011 at 8:01 AM

    Not getting into this Jason

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  7. AnonymousDecember 8, 2011 at 9:07 AM

    I am not Jason Im David Villa from spain and the spanish national soccer team can destroy the us national team

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  8. Mr. CDecember 8, 2011 at 9:08 AM

    In soccer...

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  9. AnonymousDecember 9, 2011 at 11:01 AM

    I soccer and in basketball, we can dunk and don't stop playing just because of the money we can deal with making 21 million dollars in american instead of making 22 million dollars american

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  10. AnonymousDecember 9, 2011 at 11:10 AM

    http://www.yougotdunkedon.com/2008/08/rudy-fernandez-dunks-on-dwight-howard.html go here

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