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BACKGROUND: The Connecticut Agricultural College
(C.A.C.) is little more than a handful of buildings and barns in the hamlet of Storrs at the turn of the
century. Trains stop three miles away in Eagleville, but journeys there and to the nearby mill town of
Willimantic are troublesome, particularly in bad weather.
Isolated C.A.C. students see winter as a tedious interlude between the football and baseball seasons. Athletics
offers a natural outlet. Hockey, however, depends too much on New England’s inconsistent weather to bring
relief.
In 1891, in Springfield, Massachusetts, James Naismith invents a game he called basketball to provide indoor
recreation in the cold months for young people. The game’s reputation soon drifts southward, to Storrs. |
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