{"id":1241,"date":"2019-01-02T11:08:26","date_gmt":"2019-01-02T11:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/?page_id=1241"},"modified":"2019-01-02T11:08:27","modified_gmt":"2019-01-02T11:08:27","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<style type=\"text\/css\"><\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1211.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1211.png 300w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1211-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/asianvolleyball.net\/new\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/1211-100x100.png 100w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Volleyball has come a long way from the\n dusty-old YMCA gymnasium of Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA, where the \nvisionary William G. Morgan invented the sport back in 1895. It has seen\n the start of two centuries and the dawn of a new millennium. Volleyball\n is now one of the big five international sports, and the FIVB, with its\n 220 affiliated national federations, is the largest international \nsporting federation in the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volleyball has witnessed unprecedented \ngrowth over the last decade. With the great success of world \ncompetitions such as the FIVB World Championships, the FIVB World \nLeague, the FIVB World Grand Prix, the FIVB World Cup, and the FIVB \nGrand Champions Cup as well as the Olympic Games, the level of \nparticipation at all levels internationally continues to grow \nexponentially.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The beach volleyball phenomenon also \ncontinues to amaze. The overwhelming spectator and television success of\n beach volleyball since its introduction to the Olympic Games at Atlanta\n 1996 and the stunning success of the FIVB World Tour and World \nChampionships has opened up volleyball to a completely new market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The origins<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>William G. Morgan (1870-1942), who was \nborn in the State of New York, has gone down in history as the inventor \nof the game of volleyball, to which he originally gave the name \n\u201cMintonette\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The young Morgan carried out his \nundergraduate studies at the Springfield College of the YMCA (Young \nMen\u2019s Christian Association) where he met James Naismith who, in 1891, \nhad invented basketball. After graduating, Morgan spent his first year \nat the Auburn (Maine) YMCA after which, during the summer of 1895, he \nmoved to the YMCA at Holyoke (Massachusetts) where he became director of\n physical education. In this role he had the opportunity to establish, \ndevelop and direct a vast programme of exercises and sport classes for \nmale adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His leadership was enthusiastically \naccepted, and his classes grew in numbers. He came to realise that he \nneeded a certain type of competitive recreational game in order to vary \nhis programme. Basketball, a sport that was beginning to develop, seemed\n to suit young people, but it was necessary to find a less violent and \nless intense alternative for the older members.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At that time Morgan knew of no similar \ngame to volleyball which could guide him; he developed it from his own \nsports training methods and his practical experience in the YMCA \ngymnasium. Describing his first experiments he said, \u201cIn search of an \nappropriate game, tennis occurred to me, but this required rackets, \nballs, a net and other equipment, so it was eliminated, but the idea of a\n net seemed a good one. We raised it to a height of about 6 feet, 6 \ninches (1.98 metres) from the ground, just above the head of an average \nman. We needed a ball and among those we tried was a basketball bladder,\n but this was too light and too slow. We therefore tried the basketball \nitself, which was too big and too heavy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the end, Morgan asked the firm of \nA.G. Spalding &amp; Bros. to make a ball, which they did at their \nfactory near Chicopee, in Massachusetts. The result was satisfactory: \nthe ball was leather-covered, with a rubber inner tube, its \ncircumference was not less than 25 and not more than 27 inches (63.5 cm \nand 68.6 cm, respectively), and its weight not less than 9 and not more \nthan 12 ounces (252 gr and 336 gr, respectively).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>organ asked two of his friends from \nHolyoke, Dr. Frank Wood and John Lynch, to draw up (based on his \nsuggestions) the basic concepts of the game together with the first 10 \nrules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Early in 1896 a conference was \norganized at the YMCA College in Springfield, bringing together all the \nYMCA Directors of Physical Education. Dr. Luther Halsey Gulick, director\n of the professional physical education training school (and also \nexecutive director of the department of physical education of the \nInternational Committee of YMCA\u2019s) invited Morgan to make a \ndemonstration of his game in the new college stadium. Morgan took two \nteams, each made up of five men (and some loyal fans) to Springfield, \nwhere the demonstration was made before the conference delegates in the \neast gymnasium. The captain of one of the teams was J.J. Curran and of \nthe other John Lynch who were respectively, mayor and chief of the fire \nbrigade of Holyoke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morgan explained that the new game was \ndesigned for gymnasia or exercise halls, but could also be played in \nopen air. An unlimited number of players could participate, the object \nof the game being to keep the ball in movement over a high net, from one\n side to the other.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After seeing the demonstration, and \nhearing the explanation of Morgan, Professor Alfred T. Halstead called \nattention to the action, or the act phase, of the ball\u2019s flight, and \nproposed that the name \u201cMintonette\u201d be replaced by \u201cVolley Ball.\u201d This \nname was accepted by Morgan and the conference. (It is interesting to \nnote that the same name has survived over the years, with one slight \nalteration: in 1952, the Administrative Committee of the USVBA voted to \nspell the name with one word, \u201cVolleyball\u201d, but continued to use USVBA \nto signify United States Volleyball Association).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Morgan explained the rules and worked \non them, then gave a hand-written copy to the conference of YMCA \ndirectors of physical education, as a guide for the use and development \nof the game. A committee was appointed to study the rules and produce \nsuggestions for the game\u2019s promotion and teaching.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A brief report on the new game and its \nrules was published in the July 1896 edition of \u201cPhysical Education\u201d and\n the rules were included in the 1897 edition of the first official \nhandbook of the North American YMCA Athletic League.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Worldwide Growth<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The physical education directors of the\n YMCA, encouraged particularly by two professional schools of physical \neducation, Springfield college in Massachusetts and George Williams \nCollege in Chicago (now at Downers Grove, Illinois), adopted volleyball \nin all its societies throughout the United States, Canada (in 1900 \nCanada became the first foreign country to adopt the game), and also in \nmany other countries: Elwood S. Brown in the Philippines (1910), J. \nHoward Crocker in China, Franklin H. Brown in Japan (1908), Dr. J.H. \nGray in Burma, in China and in India, and others in Mexico and South \nAmerican, European and African countries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By 1913 the development of volleyball \non the Asian continent was assured as, in that year, the game was \nincluded in the programme of the first Far-Eastern Games, organized in \nManila. It should be noted that, for a long time, Volleyball was played \nin Asia according to the \u201cBrown\u201d rules which, among other things, used \n16 players (to enable a greater participation in matches).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An indication of the growth of \nvolleyball in the United States is given in an article published in 1916\n in the Spalding Volleyball Guide and written by Robert C. Cubbon. In \nthat article Cubbon estimated that the number of players had reached a \ntotal of 200,000 people subdivided in the following way: in the YMCA \n(boys, young men, and older men) 70,000, in the YWCA (girls and women) \n50,000, in schools (boys and girls) 25,000 and in colleges (young men) \n10,000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In 1916, the YMCA managed to induce the\n powerful National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) to publish its\n rules and a series of articles, contributing to the rapid growth of \nvolleyball among young college students. In 1918 the number of players \nper team was limited to six, and in 1922 the maximum number of \nauthorized contacts with the ball was fixed at three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Until the early 1930s volleyball was \nfor the most part a game of leisure and recreation, and there were only a\n few international activities and competitions. There were different \nrules of the game in the various parts of the world; however, national \nchampionships were played in many countries (for instance, in Eastern \nEurope where the level of play had reached a remarkable standard).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Volleyball thus became more and more a competitive sport with high physical and technical performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Volleyball has come a long way from the dusty-old YMCA gymnasium of Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA, where the visionary William G. Morgan invented the sport back in 1895. 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