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{{http://scua.library.umass.edu/images/referenceimages/RG141-0008909.png?350}} alt="Basketball team, 1925" style="width:320px; border:1px solid #333; padding:5px;" /></a><div class="caption">Basketball team, 1925</div> | {{http://scua.library.umass.edu/images/referenceimages/RG141-0008975.png?350"|Basketball team 1973-74, with Al Skinner and Rick Pitino}} |
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Although invented by James. A. Naismith nearby in Springfield in 1891, basketball took several years to take firm root at UMass Amherst. Following the refitting of the old [[d:drill_hall|Drill Hall]] as a gymnasium in 1899, MAC students had a suitable, though unheated court on which to play during inclement weather | Although invented by James. A. Naismith nearby in Springfield in 1891, basketball took several years to take firm root at UMass Amherst. Following the refitting of the old [[d:drill_hall|Drill Hall]] as a gymnasium in 1899, MAC students had a suitable, though unheated court on which to play during inclement weather |