Basketball as demo sport in 1904 Olympic Games

Everybody knows that the game of basketball was invented by Canadian physical education instructor James Naismith in 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts as an indoor sport. Everybody knows, too, that basketball was first played officially in the Olympics in 1936 in Berlin.

Not everybody knows, though that 32 years before the Berlin Games, the shoot- and-dribble game was included as a demonstration sport the very first time the summer spectacle came to the U.S shore in 1904 in St. Louis, Missouri.