History of Volleyball
History of Volleyball
Today the sport of Volleyball is 119 years old; there are more than 46 million people in North America who play volleyball. There are 800 million players worldwide who play volleyball at least once a week.
Volleyball was created in 1895 by William G. Morgan an instructor at the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke, Mass. William Morgan wanted to create a game which would have less physical contact then basketball for his class of businessmen at the time. William G. Morgan He then decided to use a combination of elements from popular existing sports and created a game that he called Mintonette.
William G. Morgan borrowed some of Mintonette’s characteristics from tennis and handball. Another sport it gained some of its characteristics from is basketball, which was created just 16 kilometers away in the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, just four years prior. On July 7, 1900 during a demonstration of the game, someone remarked to Morgan that the players seemed to be volleying the ball back and forth over the net, and perhaps "volleyball" would be a more vivid name for the sport. The first game of “volleyball” was played at the Springfield College. In 1900, a special ball was also designed for the sport. The volleyball net was borrowed from the sport tennis, and Morgan wanted to raise it just over the average man’s head, and raised it 6 feet 6 inches above the floor. It had a court of 25 ft x 50 ft (7.6 m x 15.2 m ), and any number of players. A typical match had nine innings with three serves for each team in each inning.
Volleyball at the time had no limit to the number of ball contacts for each team before volleying the ball over to the opponents’ side of the court. If you failed on serving the ball over the net a second try was granted. Hitting the ball into the net was considered a foul which consisted of a point loss or side out, except in the case of the first attempt of a serve.
After a decade of volleyball
Today the sport of Volleyball is 119 years old; there are more than 46 million people in North America who play volleyball. There are 800 million players worldwide who play volleyball at least once a week.
Volleyball was created in 1895 by William G. Morgan an instructor at the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke, Mass. William Morgan wanted to create a game which would have less physical contact then basketball for his class of businessmen at the time. William G. Morgan He then decided to use a combination of elements from popular existing sports and created a game that he called Mintonette.
William G. Morgan borrowed some of Mintonette’s characteristics from tennis and handball. Another sport it gained some of its characteristics from is basketball, which was created just 16 kilometers away in the city of Springfield, Massachusetts, just four years prior. On July 7, 1900 during a demonstration of the game, someone remarked to Morgan that the players seemed to be volleying the ball back and forth over the net, and perhaps "volleyball" would be a more vivid name for the sport. The first game of “volleyball” was played at the Springfield College. In 1900, a special ball was also designed for the sport. The volleyball net was borrowed from the sport tennis, and Morgan wanted to raise it just over the average man’s head, and raised it 6 feet 6 inches above the floor. It had a court of 25 ft x 50 ft (7.6 m x 15.2 m ), and any number of players. A typical match had nine innings with three serves for each team in each inning.
Volleyball at the time had no limit to the number of ball contacts for each team before volleying the ball over to the opponents’ side of the court. If you failed on serving the ball over the net a second try was granted. Hitting the ball into the net was considered a foul which consisted of a point loss or side out, except in the case of the first attempt of a serve.
After a decade of volleyball