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    William G. Morgan is considered the father of volleyball. In 1895, as the physical director of the YMCA in Holyoke, Massachusetts, he invented the game to be a less strenuous alternative to basketball for local businessmen to play. He borrowed elements from basketball, tennis, handball, and baseball to create the game, which he initially called "Mintonette." The game grew rapidly through the promotion of the YMCA in the United States and worldwide. Formal rules and regulations were established in the early 20th century, making it a competitive sport. By the 1930s, volleyball had become an international sport played at high levels of competition.

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    William G. Morgan is considered the father of volleyball. In 1895, as the physical director of the YMCA in Holyoke, Massachusetts, he invented the game to be a less strenuous alternative to basketball for local businessmen to play. He borrowed elements from basketball, tennis, handball, and baseball to create the game, which he initially called "Mintonette." The game grew rapidly through the promotion of the YMCA in the United States and worldwide. Formal rules and regulations were established in the early 20th century, making it a competitive sport. By the 1930s, volleyball had become an international sport played at high levels of competition.

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    William G. Morgan is considered the father of volleyball. In 1895, as the physical director of the YMCA in Holyoke, Massachusetts, he invented the game to be a less strenuous alternative to basketball for local businessmen to play. He borrowed elements from basketball, tennis, handball, and baseball to create the game, which he initially called "Mintonette." The game grew rapidly through the promotion of the YMCA in the United States and worldwide. Formal rules and regulations were established in the early 20th century, making it a competitive sport. By the 1930s, volleyball had become an international sport played at high levels of competition.

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    Origin of Volleyball

    WILLIAM G. MORGAN - FATHER OF VOLLEYBALL


    Born in 1870 at Lockport, New York, William G. Morgan spent his childhood years attending
    public school and working at his father's boat yard on the banks of the Old Erie Canal. 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. Naismith was impressed with young Morgan's athletic skills and encouraged Morgan
    to continue his education at the International Young Men's Christian Association Training
    School in Springfield, Massachusetts (now called Springfield College). While at Springfield,
    Morgan participated on the college's famous football team which played championship ball
    under the leadership of Alonzo A. Stagg, one of the "Grand Old Men of Football". 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, Massachusetts, and it was here the story
    of Volleyball began.

    INVENTION OF THE GAME


    The year was 1895 and physical director William G. Morgan had a problem. The newly created
    game of basketball, while popular with the kids, was proving to be too strenuous for the local
    businessmen. He needed an alternative - something these older gentlemen could play -
    something without too much "bumping" or "jolting".
    It had to be physical - playing a game, after work and at lunch time, should provide exercise, but
    it also had to relax the participants - it couldn't be too aggressive.
    It had to be a sport, Morgan said, "with a strong athletic impulse, but no physical contact."
    So, he borrowed. 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.
    He termed this new game "Mintonette". And though admittedly incomplete, it proved successful
    enough to win an audience at the YMCA Physical Director's Conference held in Springfield,
    Massachusetts the next year.
    It was at this conference that Dr. Alfred Halstead, a professor at Springfield College, suggested
    a two-word version of its present name. "Volley Ball".
    And it stuck.
    The game of volleyball was quite a bit different from what we're used to. 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. Things tended to get a little crowded.
    Each game was broken up into nine innings, each inning made up of 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.
    The basketball originally used proved to be a little too heavy, and the subsequent use of a
    basketball bladder, too soft. Morgan remedied this by contacting A.G. Spalding, a local sporting
    goods manufacturer who designed a special ball - a rubber bladder, encased in leather, 25" or
    so in circumference. The "volleyball".
    Though still in its infancy, the sport was slowly developing and with the YCMA taking the reigns,
    Morgan was confident volleyball would continue to entertain and relax the boys down at the "Y".
    What he probably didn't realize was that he had just created what would become the second
    most popular team sport in the world.

    WORLDWIDE GROWTH
    The physical education directors of the YMCA, encouraged particularly by two professional
    schools of physical education, Springfield College in Massachusetts and George Williams
    College in Chicago (now at Downers Grove, Illinois), adopted volleyball in all its societies
    throughout the United States, Canada (in 1900 Canada became the first foreign country to
    adopt the game), and also in many other countries: Elwood S. Brown in the Philippines (1910),
    J. Howard Crocker in China, Franklin H. Brown in Japan (1908), Dr. J.H. Gray in Burma, in
    China and in India, and others in Mexico and South American, European and African countries.

    By 1913 the development of volleyball on the Asian continent was assured as, in that year, the
    game was included in the program of the first Far-Eastern Games, organized in Manila. It
    should be noted that, for a long time, volleyball was played in Asia according to the "Brown"
    rules which, among other things, used 16 players (to enable a greater participation in matches).

    An indication of the growth of volleyball in the United States is given in an article published in
    1916 in the Spalding Volleyball Guide and written by Robert C. Cubbon. In that article Cubbon
    estimated that the number of players had reached a total of 200,000 people subdivided in the
    following way: in the YMCA (boys, young men, and older men) 70,000, in the YWCA (girls and
    women) 50,000, in schools (boys and girls) 25,000 and in colleges (young men) 10,000.

    In 1916, the YMCA managed to induce the powerful National Collegiate Athletic Association
    (NCAA) to publish its rules and a series of articles, contributing to the rapid growth of volleyball
    among young college students. In 1918 the number of players per team was limited to six, and
    in 1922 the maximum number of authorized contacts with the ball was fixed at three.

    Until the early 1930s volleyball was for the most part a game of leisure and recreation, and there
    were only a few international activities and competitions. There were different rules of the game
    in the various parts of the world; however, national championships were played in many
    countries (for instance, in Eastern Europe where the level of play had reached a remarkable
    standard).

    Volleyball thus became more of a competitive sport with high physical and technical
    performance.
    Court and Net Dimensions

    The overall measurements for a Volleyball court is 60 feet by 30 feet. Each side of the court is
    therefore 30 feet by 30 feet in size.

    Center Line
    A center line is marked at the center of the court dividing it equally into 30 feet squares.

    Attack Line
    The attack line is marked 10 feet on each side of the center line of the court. Some rules show
    the attack line at 9′ 10″ however that includes the width of the line itself (2″).
    Service Line
    A service line is marked 10 feet inside the right sideline on each back line. This is the area from
    which the server may serve the volleyball.

    The Net
    The net is hung directly above the center line at 7 feet 4 inches for women and 8 feet for men.

    Standards
    Volleyball standards should be set at 36 feet apart, 3 feet on either side of the sidelines.

    Ceiling Height
    The minimum ceiling height should be 23 feet. Preferably the ceilings should be higher.

    Ball Specifications
    Indoor volleyballs are designed for the indoor version of the sport, and beach volleyballs for the
    beach game.
    Indoor volleyballs may be solid white or a combination of two or three different easily
    distinguishable colors. They are made in two versions: the youth version is slightly smaller and
    weighs much less than an adult volleyball and than the standard version to accommodate
    youth's use.
    Beach volleyballs are slightly larger than standard indoor balls, have a rougher external texture,
    and a lower internal pressure. They can be brightly colored or solid white. The very first
    volleyballs were made from leather paneling over a rubber carcass.

    Volleyball characteristics[2][3]

    Circumference Mass Internal pressure


    cm (inches) grams (ounces) kgf/cm² (psi)

    Standard indoor 65-67 (25.5-26.5) 260-280 (9.2-9.9) 0.3-0.325 (4.3-4.6)

    Youth indoor 63-65 (25-26) 260-280 (9.2-9.9) 0.3 (4.3)

    Beach 66-68 (26-27) 260-280 (9.2-9.9) 0.175-0.225 (2.5-3.2)


    MAPEH

    Submitted by:
    Jose Edgar Maat

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