As history continues

            On December 21, 1891, James Naismith published his rules for a new game using five base ideas and thirteen rules. That day, he asked his class to play a match in the Armory Street court: 9 vs. 9, using a soccer ball and two peach baskets. Naismith was the inventor of the new game, one of his student proposed to call it “Naismith Game”, but he didn't much like the idea, and suggested that the game consisted of a ball and a basket, and should be called basketball. 
           There are other differences between Naismith’s first idea and the game as we know how to play it today. The peach baskets were closed, and balls had to be taken out manually, later with time a small hole was put in the bottom of the peach basket so they could poke the ball out using a stick. it wasn't until 1906 when metal hoops, nets and back boards were introduced. Earlier the soccer ball was replaced by a Spalding ball, similar to the one used today.
           It was the YMCA which had a major role in spreading basketball throughout the United States, Canada, and the world. The first war, occured In 1914 and sccording to Wikipedia the U.S Army started fighting in Europe in 1917. During WWI, the American Force brought basketball wherever they went. With the troops, there were hundreds of physical education teachers, who knew how to played basketball well, and even James Naismith was in two years with YMCA in France, in that period, they always brought basketballs with them everywhere they went.