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Isn't basketball just netball, but you're allowed to run with the ball?
so which came first? My dictionary compares the latter to the former, suggesting to me two possibilities:
1. Basketball is more widely known in Canada (this being a Canuck Oxford I'm consulting), so netball is compared to the more familiar thing.
2. Basketball came first.
I haven't googled either game name. Do know basketball was new in the late 1800s, because its newness is featured in one of the Great Brain books which are based on the life of the author (John D. Fitzgerald). But I don't know when netball came about.
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