Two newspaper articles about James Naismith, the inventor of Basketball. The first, titled "High Honor Given to Kansas Educator", describes how Naismith was made a life long member of the National Intercollegiate Association, and would be on the basketball rules committee permanently. The second article, titled "Man Who Invented Cage Game Living", gives a brief summary of who Dr. Naismith was, and explains how he created the game of basketball. To learn more about Dr. James Naismith, see: https://springfield.as.atlas-sys.com/agents/people/645
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Is part of a scrapbook of Naismith materials, collector unknown, that has been taken out of its binding and the pages separated by archival paper. It is the 2nd item in the scrapbook.
