Crocker attended the International YMCA Training School in Springfield, Massachusetts, prior to beginning full-time YMCA work.; He was a student of James Naismith, the inventor of basketball. In 1894, Crocker transferred to the YMCA in Amherst, Nova Scotia, as the secretary and physical education director.Keyes, Mary Eleanor (1964), p. 20 In Amherst, he established a basketball program,Keyes, Mary Eleanor (1964), p. 29 introducing basketball to Nova Scotia after the game appeared at the Montreal YMCA in 1892.
