LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas put James Naismith’s original rules of basketball on display Friday at the new multi-million-dollar DeBruce Center, which was built to house the historical two-page document.
The 32,000-square-foot DeBruce Center opened a few weeks ago and is the permanent home for “The Original 13 Rules of Basket Ball,” which Naismith wrote in 1891. The display was installed Friday.
The area where the rules are held is deliberately darkened to protect the historic document, which was bought at auction in 2010 for $4.3 million by University of Kansas alumnus David Booth and his wife, Suzanne Booth.