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The Library of Congress Joyce, Maurice I claim no rights other than colorizing this image if you wish to use let me know Title Joyce, Maurice Contributor Names C.M. Bell (Firm : Washington, D.C.), photographer Created / Published [between January 1891 and January 1894] Format Headings Glass negatives. Portrait photographs. Genre Portrait photographs Glass negatives Notes - Title is unverified name of sitter or person who ordered the photograph, from handwritten label on negative sleeve or negative. - Date from photographer's logbook. - Gift; American Genetic Association, 1975. - General information about the C.M. Bell Collection is available at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.bellcm - Temp note: Batch 12. Medium 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in. Call Number/Physical Location LC-B5- 40810B [P&P] Source Collection C.M. Bell Studio Collection (Library of Congress) Repository Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print Digital Id bellcm 05315 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/bellcm.05315 Library of Congress Control Number 2016692754 Reproduction Number LC-DIG-bellcm-05315 (digital file from original) Rights Advisory No known restrictions on publication. Online Format image Description 1 negative : glass ; 5 x 7 in.
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"Most basketball enthusiasts can repeat the tales of Dr. James Naismith and the peach basket game he invented in 1891 in Springfield, Massachusetts to fill the gap in athletics between the football and baseball seasons. What is less familiar is that Naismith first put nine men per side on the court with very few rules initially. The result looked more like a roughhouse hockey game with frequent fistfights.
Newly arrived in Washington, DC in 1892, 31-year old Maurice Joyce had taken on the job of director and physical instructor at the Carroll Institute, a city-wide amateur athletic club like many then in vogue in major cities throughout the nation. He came across descriptions of Naismith's pastime in a magazine and decided to try it out with his charges as a form of conditioning. Soon he was modifying and adapting rules to improve the game. He dropped the number of game players from nine to seven. Teams throughout the land began to follow suit. By 1897, he put five men on the floor and a more recognizable form of competition began to take shape with teamwork now not only possible but desirable.
Having introduced the game to the District of Columbia, Joyce worked to spread the new sport throughout the area, if only to expand the number of potential opponents. He gave instruction at the University of Virginia and at the Naval Academy. Teams subsequently sprung up on those campuses. So when Georgetown completed the new Ryan Gymnasium in 1906 and was in need of a director of physical education, the university looked to the preeminent fitness instructor in the region, 45-year old Maurice Joyce, to join the faculty. And it is no coincidence that upon his arrival, a new intercollegiate sport began on the Hilltop: basketball."
-Nik
