Browse Exhibits (18 total)

Lyman W. Archibald

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Learn more about the man who created the first "real hot-bed" of basketball in Canada! 

Ernest G. Hildner

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Learn more about the game's youngest player!

Thomas D. Patton

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Learn more about Dr. Naismith's close friend!

Wilbert F. Carey

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Learn more about a man who used basketball to help troops in World War I!

William H. Davis

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Learn more about one of Springfield's best two-sport stars!

Eugene S. Libby

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Learn more about a captain in the first game!

Frank H. Mahan

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Meet the man who named the sport!

William R. Chase

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Learn more about the man who scored the first field goal in basketball history!

Franklin E. Barnes

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Learn more about the man whose return 30 years after graduation was widely celebrated!

John G. Thompson

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Learn more about a member of the 1892 championship team!

Edwin P. Ruggles

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Learn more about basketball's first dominant scorer!

Finley G. MacDonald

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Learn more about 1 of 3 players to score in the first public game!

George R. Weller

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Learn more about the class president!

Samuro Ishikawa

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Learn more about the man who's drawing was the cover of the phamphlet announcing basketball's invention!

George E. Day

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Learn more about the only member of this class to die serving in World WarI!

Benjamin S. French

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All you ever wanted to know about Benjamin!

Henri Gelan

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Learn more about the only European born player!

Raymond P. Kaighn

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Learn more about the first man injured while playing baketball!