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The game of volleyball, originally called âmintonette,â was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan after the invention of basketball only four years before. Morgan, a graduate of the Springfield College of the YMCA, designed the game to be a combination of basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball. The first volleyball net, borrowed from tennis, was only 6â6â³ high (though you need to remember that the average American was shorter in the nineteenth century).
Volleyball is the second most popular sport in the world today. This outdoor and indoor sport has improved ,and changed, drastically since Mr. William G. Morgan invented the sport in 1895 at a YMCA in Holyoke, a slightly large city in Hampden County, Massachusetts. Volleyball was created for middle aged men that needed something less strenuous than basketball. Now Volleyball is played by millions of young men and women, in the gym and on the sand. This page will inform you about the game of Volleyball and how Volleyball has changed since Morgan's inventing of the game.