Dr. James Naismith developed the sport of basketball at a YMCA in Springfield, Massachusetts. The first game was first played in December 1891, when two teams of nine young men tried to throw a soccer ball into one of two peach baskets (thus giving the sport its name). Two years later, a company began marketing metal hoops with hammock-like baskets, which were closed at the bottom (as in this cartoon). The balls had to be retrieved after each basket (“goal”) by someone on a ladder until open nets became the norm around 1912. In 1895, the size of teams was reduced to five and backboards were introduced. Players were not allowed to dribble the ball until 1910 and not shoot after dribbling until 1916. There were 88 college teams by the early 1900s and 366 by 1914.