Browse Exhibits (18 total)

Lyman W. Archibald

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

Ernest G. Hildner

Learn more about the game's youngest player!

Thomas D. Patton

Learn more about Dr. Naismith's close friend!

Wilbert F. Carey

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

William H. Davis

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

Eugene S. Libby

Learn more about a captain in the first game!

Frank H. Mahan

Meet the man who named the sport!

William R. Chase

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

Franklin E. Barnes

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

John G. Thompson

Learn more about a member of the 1892 championship team!

Edwin P. Ruggles

Learn more about basketball's first dominant scorer!

Finley G. MacDonald

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

George R. Weller

Learn more about the class president!

Samuro Ishikawa

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

George E. Day

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

Benjamin S. French

All you ever wanted to know about Benjamin!

Henri Gelan

Learn more about the only European born player!

Raymond P. Kaighn

Learn more about the first man injured while playing baketball!