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The internet will tell you that the first team to dribble a basketball was Yale University in 1897.
But if you search Google for- Dribbling invented in New Britain, Conn - the results will produce a Hartford Courant article that includes the quote below.
"...In the golden age, innovation reached broadly. There's a photo of the local men's YMCA basketball team in the New Britain Industrial Museum from 1896, the year the squad won the world championship. Bernardotte Loomis, a timekeeper at Stanley and later the city tax collector, bounced the ball in the title game that was witnessed by James Naismith, who approved the move — and dribbling was born.
"His unexpected maneuver," The Courant's Bob Zaiman wrote in an article on March 6, 1954, "probably saved the game of basketball from extinction."
The Basketball Hall of Fame doesn't recognize Loomis' dribble as a first. But the world still recognizes New Britain as an amazing incubator of the machine age...."
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But if you search Google for- Dribbling invented in New Britain, Conn - the results will produce a Hartford Courant article that includes the quote below.
"...In the golden age, innovation reached broadly. There's a photo of the local men's YMCA basketball team in the New Britain Industrial Museum from 1896, the year the squad won the world championship. Bernardotte Loomis, a timekeeper at Stanley and later the city tax collector, bounced the ball in the title game that was witnessed by James Naismith, who approved the move — and dribbling was born.
"His unexpected maneuver," The Courant's Bob Zaiman wrote in an article on March 6, 1954, "probably saved the game of basketball from extinction."
The Basketball Hall of Fame doesn't recognize Loomis' dribble as a first. But the world still recognizes New Britain as an amazing incubator of the machine age...."
One City’s Story: Family Ties, Invention Made New Britain The Hardware Capital
A 1948 chamber of commerce booklet with a plain brown cover and a simple title, “New Britain, An Industrial City,” paints a remarkable story. In that postwar year, even after some shaki…
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