George Hepbron

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George T. Hepbron (August 27, 1863 in Still Pond, Maryland, US – April 30, 1946) was one of basketball's first referees and rules pioneers. He is also credited with writing the game's first book, How to Play Basketball, in 1904.

Hepbron was a close friend of Dr. James Naismith, and subsequently played a major role in the early development of the game, especially in the area of rules. Active in many sports organizations, Hepbron was the first secretary of the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) Basketball Committee (1896) and in 1915, became secretary of the newly formed National Basketball Rules Committee (NBRC).

Hepbron was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1960 as a referee.

References

"Hall of Famers: George T. Hepbron". The Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on 2013-12-02. Retrieved 2013-12-02.

v t e Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame Class of 1960

Players	Vic Hanson Ed Macauley Branch McCracken Stretch Murphy John Wooden

Coaches	Ernest Blood Frank Keaney Ward Lambert

Contributors	H. V. Porter

Referees	George Hepbron

Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame

Based in Springfield, Massachusetts

Members

Coaches (92)

Alexeeva Allen Anderson Auerbach Auriemma Barmore Barry Blood Boeheim Brown Calhoun Cann Carlson Carnesecca Carnevale Carril Case Chancellor Chaney Conradt Crum Daly Dean Díaz-Miguel Diddle Drake Ferrándiz Gaines Gamba Gardner Gill Gomelsky Gunter Hannum Harshman Haskins Hatchell Hickey Hobson Holzman Hurley Iba Jackson Julian Keaney Keogan Knight Krzyzewski Kundla Lambert Lewis Litwack Loeffler Lonborg Magee McCutchan A. McGuire F. McGuire Meanwell Meyer Miller Moore Nelson Nikolić Novosel Olson Pitino Ramsay Riley Rubini Rupp Rush Sachs Sharman Shelton Sloan Smith Stringer Summitt Tarkanian Taylor Teague Thompson VanDerveer Wade Watts Wilkens Williams Wooden Woolpert Wootten Yow

Boldface indicates those who are also inducted as players

Contributors (63)

Players (160)

Guards	Archibald Beckman Belov Bing Blazejowski Borgmann Brennan Cervi Cooper-Dyke Cousy Davies Drexler Dumars Edwards Frazier Friedman Gervin Goodrich Greer Guerin Hanson Haynes Holman Hyatt Jeannette D. Johnson E. Johnson K. Jones S. Jones Jordan Lieberman Maravich Marcari Martin McDermott McGuire Meyers R. Miller Monroe Murphy Page Payton Petrović Phillip Robertson Roosma Russell Schommer Sedran Sharman Staley Steinmetz Stockton Thomas Thompson Vandivier Wanzer West Wilkens Woodard Wooden

Forwards	Arizin Barkley Barry Baylor Bird Bradley R. Brown Cunningham Curry Dalipagić Dantley DeBusschere Dehnert Endacott English Erving Foster Fulks Gale Gates Gola Hagan Havlicek Hawkins Hayes Heinsohn Howell G. Johnson King Lucas Luisetti K. Malone McClain B. McCracken J. McCracken McHale Mikkelsen C. Miller Mullin Pettit Pippen Pollard Ramsey Rodman Schayes E. Schmidt O. Schmidt Stokes Thompson Twyman Walker White Wilkes Wilkins Worthy Yardley

Centers	Abdul-Jabbar Barlow Bellamy Chamberlain Ćosić Cowens Crawford Daniels DeBernardi Donovan Ewing Gallatin Gilmore Gruenig Harris-Stewart Houbregs Issel W. Johnson Johnston Krause Kurland Lanier Lovellette Lapchick Macauley M. Malone McAdoo Meneghin Mikan Murphy Olajuwon Parish Pereira Reed Risen Robinson Russell Sabonis Sampson Semjonova Thurmond Unseld Wachter Walton

Boldface indicates those who are also inducted as coaches

Referees (14)

Enright Hepbron Hoyt Kennedy Leith Mihalik Nichols Nucatola Quigley Rudolph Shirley Strom Tobey Walsh

Teams (9)

1960 United States Olympic Team 1992 United States Olympic Team All American Red Heads Buffalo Germans The First Team Harlem Globetrotters New York Rens Original Celtics Texas Western

Awards

Official website

Persondata
Name	Hepbron, George
Alternative names
Short description	American basketball player
Date of birth	August 27, 1863
Place of birth
Date of death	April 30, 1946
Place of death

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