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While working as head of physical education at the YMCA in Springfield , Massachusetts , Gulick directed James Naismith , a teacher at the school, to create a winter sport to be played indoors; Naismith would invent and popularize basketball in response. Gulick worked with Naismith to spread the sport, chairing the Basketball Committee of the Amateur Athletic Union (1895–1905) and representing the United States Olympic Committee during the 1908 Olympic Games . In view of his continued efforts to increase the popularity of the game of basketball and of Physical Fitness in general, Gulick was inducted into the Basketball Hall Of Fame as a contributor in 1959 . With his wife, Gulick founded the Camp Fire Girls to prepare women for work outside the home; the two were also active in the creation and expansion of the Boy Scouts movement, as both the Camp Fire Girls and Boy Scouts movements helped to promote physical fitness and expand exercise opportunities for youth. Gulick's son, Luther Halsey III Gulick , became a leading expert on public administration. EXTERNAL LINKS |