History of Volleyball

HISTORY
OF
VOLLEYBALL
Matt Rohan Alagaban
Hazel Almoguera
Jino Escala
Althea Danielle Mujar
Justin Paule Navarez
William G. Morgan
The Inventor of Volleyball
Born in New York in 1870
In 1891 Morgan entered Mt. Hermon Preparatory
School in Northfield, Massachusetts, and it was there
he developed a friendship with James A. Naismith,
who was destined to be the originator of basketball.
While at Springfield, Morgan participated on the
college's famous football team under the leadership
of Alonzo A. Stagg.
In 1894, after graduation, Morgan accepted the
position of physical director of the Auburn, Maine
YMCA.
The following year he accepted a similar post in
Holyoke, Mass., and it was here the story of Volleyball
began.
The Origins
During the summer of 1895, he moved to the

YMCA at Holyoke (Massachusetts) where he
became director of physical education.
In this role he had the opportunity to establish,
develop and direct a vast programme of
exercises and sport classes for male adults.
Recognizing the need for a less intense game
for older members, Morgan sought to create a
new sport.
The Foundation for Volleyball
From basketball, he took the ball.
From tennis the net.
The use of hands and the ability to play off the
walls and over hangs, he borrowed from handball.
And, from baseball, he took the concept of
innings.
In the end, Morgan asked the firm
of A.G. Spalding & Bros. to make a
ball, which they did at their factory
near Chicopee, in Massachusetts.
The result was satisfactory: the ball

was leather-covered, with a rubber
inner tube, its circumference was
not less than 25 and not more than
27 inches, and its weight not less
than 9 and not more than 12
ounces. The “volleyball”.
Morgan asked two of his friends
from Holyoke, Dr. Frank Wood
and John Lynch, to draw up
(based on his suggestions) the
basic concepts of the game
together with the first 10 rules.
In early 1896, a conference at

the YMCA College in Springfield
gathered YMCA Directors of
Physical Education. Morgan
demonstrated the game there,
with teams led by J.J. Curran
and John Lynch.
Professor Alfred T. Halstead suggested
renaming "Mintonette" to "Volley Ball,"
a name accepted by Morgan and the
conference.
It was played on a smaller 25'x50' court,
with an unlimited number of players
hitting the ball an unlimited number of
times, on either side of a 6'6" high net.
Each game was broken up into nine

innings, each inning made of up three
outs, or "serves". These serves could be
helped over the net by a second player
if the server didn't quite reach the net.
Morgan explained the rules and worked on
them, then gave a hand-written copy to the
conference of YMCA directors of physical
education, as a guide for the use and
development of the game. A committee was
appointed to study the rules and produce
suggestions for the game's promotion and
teaching.
A brief report on the new game and its rules

was published in the July 1896 edition of
"Physical Education" and the rules were
included in the 1897 edition of the first official
handbook of the North American YMCA
Athletic League.
WORLDWIDE
GROWTH
Encouraged by institutions like Springfield College in
Massachusetts and George Williams College in Chicago,
volleyball gained widespread adoption.
Canada was the first foreign country to adopt the game

in 1900, followed by countries such as the Philippines,
China, Japan, Burma, India, Mexico, South American,
European, and African countries.
By 1913, volleyball's establishment in Asia was solidified

when it was included in the program of the first Far-
Eastern Games in Manila. Initially played according to the
"Brown" rules, which involved 16 players per team,
volleyball's popularity soared.
In the United States, an article by Robert C. Cubbon
estimated that by 1916, there were around 200,000
volleyball players, with significant participation from
YMCA, YWCA, schools, and colleges.
The YMCA played a key role in promoting the sport, even

influencing the National Collegiate Athletic Association
(NCAA) to publish rules and articles about volleyball,
leading to its rapid growth among college students.
Rules for playing volleyball kept establishing over the
years; points per set changed from 21 to 15 points in
1917, in the following year the number of players per
team was set at six and so on.
A few years later, a new offensive way of playing the

game — including what we now call setting and spiking
— emerged in the Philippines. It was to be called ‘bomba’
or ‘Filipino bomb’, taking a cue from the pace at which
the ball landed in the opposition’s court.
INTERNATIONAL
GOVERNING BODY
OF VOLLEYBALL
April 1947 saw the
establishment of the Federation
Internationale de Volleyball
(FIVB).
Representatives from 14 nations

- Belgium, Brazil, Czechoslovakia,
Egypt, France, the Netherlands,
Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal,
Romania, Uruguay, the USA and
Yugoslavia - met in Paris under
the leadership of France’s Paul
Libaud to set up the association
that would govern volleyball at
the international level.
Libaud assumed the role of
FIVB's first president, a position
he held on to till 1984. The first
volleyball World Championships
for men was held in 1949 in
Prague and in 1952 for women in
Moscow.
FIVB has since grown into

becoming one of the biggest
sporting organisations in the
world with 222 affiliated bodies.
VOLLEYBALL
AT THE
OLYMPICS
Indoor volleyball was granted Olympic status in 1957 by the International
Olympic Committee (IOC).
Volleyball made its Olympic debut at the Tokyo 1964 Games.
Brazil and Italy have bagged the most medals in men's Olympic volleyball
(six each), with the South American team leading the honours with their
three golds and three silvers.
Among the women’s teams, six countries

have won the Olympic gold medal in volleyball
with the Soviet Union leading the overall
medals tally with six (four golds and two silvers).
VOLLEYBALL
ON THE
BEACH
Beach volleyball was included in the Olympic programme for the
Atlanta Games in 1996, a move that helped take the global reach
and popularity of the sport to a new level.
The United States of America, the country from which volleyball
originated from, has dominated this event at the Olympics,
winning a total of seven gold, two silver and two bronze medals
(men and women) so far.
Their Olympic bow was followed
by the inaugural FIVB Beach Volleyball
World Championships in 1997.
The event is hosted every alternate
year and Brazil has been the most
successful country at this event
winning a total of 12 gold medals
(men and women) so far.
THAT’S
ALL!
SANKYU
SOURCES
https://www.fivb.com/en/volleyball/thegame_glossary/history
https://www.volleyhall.org/history-of-volleyball.html
https://olympics.com/en/news/what-history-volleyball-game-origin-
mintonette-ymca-fivb-olympics

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HISTORY

During the summer of 1895, he moved to the

The result was satisfactory: the ball

In early 1896, a conference at

Each game was broken up into nine

A brief report on the new game and its rules

Canada was the first foreign country to adopt the game

By 1913, volleyball's establishment in Asia was solidified

The YMCA played a key role in promoting the sport, even

A few years later, a new offensive way of playing the

Representatives from 14 nations

FIVB has since grown into

Volleyball made its Olympic debut at the Tokyo 1964 Games.

Among the women’s teams, six countries

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