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A photograph of Dr. James Naismith with fellow alumni at an alumni function at Springfield College. From left to right there is Thomas D. Patton, Mr. William H. Ball, Mrs. William H. Ball, James Naismith, and Walter Lanphear.

A photograph of the International YMCA Training School, now Springfield College, football team of 1891. This was the second football team at Springfield College started by Amos Alonzo Stagg, the "grand old man of football". The original team was…

A picture of Dr. James Naismith with fellow alumni in front of Alumni Hall on the Springfield College Campus. Among those in this picture is Thomas D. Patton, second from the right, who was Naismith's student in the secretarial class that first…

The article titled "Basketball - How and When Introduced" by T.D. Patton appeared in the 1941 edition of Souvenir Magazine, commemorating the 50th anniversary of Dr. James Naismith creating the game of basketball. T.D. Patton was one of the original…

A photograph of Dr. James Naismith with Thomas D. Patton standing under an arch.

A newspaper article published in the Springfield Union News titled "Captain of World's First Basketball Team Returns to Springfield College". The article focuses on Thomas D. Patton who was one of the first men to play the game of basketball. It…

An application for admissions to the Secretarial Department of the YMCA Training School, now Springfield College, for Thomas D. Patton (Class of 1892). It is dated Feb. 6, 1890. There is another application for Patton that is undated. It contains…

This is a portrait cabinet card of Springfield College alumnus Ernest Hildner (class of 1893), the youngest member of the very first basketball team. The photograph was taken in Detroit Michigan., ca 1891.

A portrait photograph of Springfield College Alumnus Lyman Walker Archibald.

A hand colored lantern slide of the Secretarial team of the International YMCA Training School, now Springfield College, and the school champions in 1892. The team in is often referred to as the "First Basketball Team". The team does contain 9 of the…

Springfield College alumnus Lyman Walker Archibald (Class of 1893) hailed from Nova Scotia, Canada and was one of the original members of the first basketball team.