Playboy's College Basketball Preview
November, 1977
It all began on a wintry morning in early December 1891. James Naismith, an instructor at the Y.M.C.A. Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, faced the problem of devising an indoor activity that would dissipate the excess energy of some of his phys-ed students. He had a workman nail a couple of peach baskets to the rail of the gymnasium balcony, divided the rowdies into two teams, outlined a few rules (no running with the ball, no tackling or eye gouging), handed them a soccer ball and...
