This is America. Гришенкова Е.Г. - 46 стр.

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Another reason is that the American Professional Football Association was
founded in Canton in1920. And, in the 1960s, the citizens of Canton launched a well-
organized campaign to build the Hall of Fame in their city. The Pro Football Hall of
Fame opened in 1963. It shows the history of professional football. It also honors the
game’s greatest players.
At the museum, you can see a film about football in a theater than turns into a
football stadium. You can learn about the history of professional football in the
United States. You can also learn about each of the thirty two National Football
League teams.
There are several special areas of the Pro Football Hall of Fame. One lets
visitors test their knowledge about the game. Another tells about the yearly
championship game, called the Super Bowl.
There are two hundred sixteen members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame.
They include players, coaches and team owners. There is a statue, picture and
information about each one. New members are chosen each year.
More than six million people have visited the Pro Football Hall of Fame since
it opened. Visitors have come from every American state and as many as seventy
other countries.
The Basketball Hall of Fame is the newest of the three sports halls of fame. It
is in Springfield, Massachusetts. The museum is named in honor of James Naismith,
the man who invented basketball. Its official name is the Naismith Memorial
Basketball Hall of Fame. Naismith invented basketball in 1891. He taught a physical
education class at a school in Springfield, Massachusetts. One long, cold winter, he
had to create a game for eighteen young men to play indoors. He invented the game
of basketball.
In 1949 the National Association of Basketball Coaches established the Hall of
Fame. It opened in 1968 at Springfield College. A new, larger building opened in
1985. More than one hundred thousand people visit the Hall of Fame each year.
The Basketball Hall of Fame is a museum and entertainment center. It
combines history with technology. It tells about basketball at every level of the game.
For example, it tells about professional basketball in the United States and in other
countries. It tells how the game is played at colleges, by women’s teams and by
disabled people.
The Hall of Fame also honors the best players, teams, coaches and officials.
Two hundred forty-one people and four teams are honored there. More honorees will
be added in September. They are Larry Brown, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Lute Olson,
Drazen Petrovic, Kay Yow and the world famous Harlem Globetrotters team.

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