3. Volleyball is a sport played by two
teams and the main objective is to
volley the ball over the net using any
part of the body in a rectangular court.
4. invented "volleyball" in 1895 in
Holyoke, Massachusetts
physical education instructor at
local Young Men’s Christian
Association orYMCA.
called “mintonnete” back then
because of some concepts of the
game was borrowed from
Badminton
William G. Morgan
5. In 1896 Alfred T. Halstead of
Springfield College suggested
Morgan to change the name from
Mintonnete to “volley ball”
becauseofitsnatureofvolleying
theball.
6. The ball that they wereusing beforewas the bladder of
a basketball ball or its interior
,but it was too light that
they instead usethe basketball ball howeverit was too
heavytoo.
7. Morgan asked the A.GSpalding &
Bros.to makea ball that will suit
to the game.They madeit in their
factory in Massachusetts. They
made a ball that was leather-
coveredwith a rubber inner tube,
circumference was not less than
25 and not more than 27 inches,
and weighs not less than 9 and
not morethan 12ounces.
8. It was Elwood S.Brown who
brought the game in the
Philippines in 1910and in 1916
an offensive style of passing the
ball in a high trajectory to be
struck by another player (the
set and spike) were introduced
and was called the Filipino
Bomb.
9. In 1920,threehits per side and back row attack
rules wereinstituted.
In 1930,the first two-manbeach gamewas played
also known as beach volleyball, a variation of the
game
In 1964,volleyball was introduced to the Olympic
Games inTokyo.
FIVB (FederationInternationale deVolleyball) is
the international governing body of the game.
