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Message: [QUOTE="OrlandoCuse, post: 4159534, member: 115"] Here’s your answer: [I]At the Springfield YMCA, Naismith struggled with a rowdy class that was confined to indoor games throughout the harsh [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_England']New England[/URL]winter, thus was perpetually short-tempered. Under orders from Dr. [URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luther_Gulick_(physician)']Luther Gulick[/URL], head of physical education there, Naismith was given 14 days to create an indoor game that would provide an "athletic distraction"; Gulick demanded that it would not take up much room, could help its track athletes to keep in shape[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith#cite_note-mcgill-3'][3][/URL] and explicitly emphasized to "make it fair for all players and not too rough".[URL='https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Naismith#cite_note-hofsummary-11'][10][/URL][/I] [/QUOTE]