Basketball is a relatively new game. In the winter of 1891, a certain college was having trouble with its male students could not take part in their usual outdoor sports. As a result, they were restless and troublesome. Finally, some of the teachers at the college asked Dr. James E Naismith to invent a game that could be played indoors on rather small court. They want a game in which there would be no violent movements, and they wanted one of the rules to be that the players could not touch each other-probably to keep them from getting into fights!