We don't claim him. He's from Columbia, he's all yours.

The hell we're claiming him.

He's the Philip Nolan of ChiefsPlanet...

MU knows no sentimental value of KU or material relating to KU has. Being uneducated in this fashion sets you apart from the KU world . :D :KU:

















Don't get your panties in a wad over this comment, you always have the Page Arena to be proud of !;)

4 million :eek:

holy shite

Am I reading it wrong? Seems to me they were created elsewhere and then brought to ku and then he became their first coach. How ddoes it belong there? Were the rules written in ku or elsewhere?

Great news! The "birth certificate" of college hoops will be on display in Allen Fieldhouse, as they should be.

Huh?

I presume you're trying to say that we cannot understand KU's attachment to this document as we have nothing similar to hang our hats on. If that's the case - you pretty much suck at saying it.

But alas, you are correct. Try as I might, I've yet to find something MU related that I would equate to, say, the Magna Carta or perhaps the Declaration of the Rights of Man.

I suppose you have me on that one.

So tell me, is the blueprint for Fraser Hall kinda like the Constitution?

The house the skank built FTW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

It was merely a joke to start with, KU vs MU and all. Since everybody outside thinks all things relating KU is self centered,egotistical,bout anything you want to add to it, etc.

OK, I bombed out on the joke, it appeared you took as face value ? :rolleyes:

Nah, I pretty well assumed you were at least half-joking.

But I assure you, CoMo and the like were not.

Because you're right - all things related to KU pretty much are self-centered, egotistical and 'bout anything else I'd want to add...

Though in fairness, I wouldn't actually burn the things. I'd just keep them on display in the nuclear reactor at MU. It'd be kind of fun to see if I could get those suckers to glow in the dark.

http://www2.kusports.com/news/2010/d...medium=ljtweet

Booths purchase original Naismith basketball rules at auction for more than $4 million, according to Sotheby’s

By The Associated Press

New York City — A historic document that details the original rules of basketball, written 119 years ago as a winter sport for boys of a Massachusetts YMCA, was sold for more than $4 million on Friday to raise money for charity.

It was purchased by David and Suzanne Booth, who hope to bring the rules to Kansas University. He is an alumnus. James Naismith wrote the 13 rules while a physical education instructor at the Christian association.

“Basketball is a pure invention,” said Selby Kiffer, senior specialist in American history documents at Sotheby’s, where the rules were being sold by the Naismith International Basketball Foundation.

“It’s really the genesis, the birth certificate of one of the world’s most popular sports,” he said in October when the sale was announced. “It’s a sport that has had an impact on everything from fashion, such as sneakers, to culture that in a way transcends sports.

The sale price of $4.3 million includes a buyer’s premium. The proceeds will benefit the Naismith foundation, which promotes sportsmanship and provides services to underprivileged children around the world.

Ian Naismith, the foundation’s founder and grandson of James Naismith, told The Associated Press in an interview in October that it was a family decision to put the rules on the auction block and give the money to the Naismith charity.

“It’s what Dr. Naismith wanted,” he said.

James Naismith penned the 13 rules on Dec. 21, 1891, for the YMCA training school in Springfield. His boss had given him two weeks to come up with a new indoor activity for his gym class, and he wrote down the rules on the eve of that deadline.

He gave the list to his secretary, who typed them up on two pages that Naismith pinned on a bulletin board outside the gym.

He moved to Lawrence, Kan., in 1898 and became the first basketball coach at Kansas University. He coached for nine seasons before assuming other academic duties and serving as athletics director.

One of his players was Forrest “Phog” Allen, who went on to become popularly known as the “father of basketball coaches.”

The two are memorialized on the KU campus, where the basketball court at Allen Fieldhouse is named James Naismith Court.

Naismith died in 1939, three years after his new game became an official sport at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

Without googling/wiki'ng it, Springfield, MA. IIRC.

Their creator is buried in Lawrence. As such, they're coming home.

LMAO

Man, you guys are odd.

Rock Chalk.

As it should be.