OT First game of basketball was a brawl

[DUB]

This excerpt from a January 31, 1939, broadcast of the radio program "We the People" hosted in New York by Gabriel Heatter is believed to be the only known audio recording of Naismith.

http://exhibits.lib.ku.edu/exhibits/show/naismith150/collections/radio-interview

“Well I didn’t have enough [rules], and that’s where I made my big mistake. The boys tackling, kicking and punching in the clinches. They ended up in a free-for-all in the middle of the gym floor. Before I could pull them apart, one boy was knocked out, several of them had black eyes, and one had a dislocated shoulder. It certainly was murder.”

 

[ChadWick]

Pretty cool piece of history.

 

[Strenuus]

Dude, this is cool!

 

[Darkwebs]

They should have changed the name of this sport to "basketbrawl"

 

[JfizzleBlazer]

I Wonder if this story was the idea behind arch rivals?

 

[dead247]

I Wonder if this story was the idea behind arch rivals?

Damn it, you gave me away!

Haha the second best bball game ever. Been playing it on an emulator recently.

Regarding the OP though, that's sweet.

 

[dead247]

Imagine today's nba players shooting/dunking at peach baskets. Does not compute.

 

[BigGameDamian]

I say let them go till one falls then break it up. Hockey fights. These aren't kids playing.