Volleyball has evolved over 122 years from its origins in 1895 as "mintonette" to the internationally popular sport it is today. It was originally designed as a combination of other sports like basketball and tennis. The set and hit was developed in the Philippines in 1916 and changed how the game was played. Volleyball became popular with the US military and was brought to beaches in the 1920s, with organized beach tournaments beginning in 1948. It was added to the Olympics in 1964 and is now the second most popular sport worldwide with approximately 800 million players.
Volleyball has evolved over 122 years from its origins in 1895 as "mintonette" to the internationally popular sport it is today. It was originally designed as a combination of other sports like basketball and tennis. The set and hit was developed in the Philippines in 1916 and changed how the game was played. Volleyball became popular with the US military and was brought to beaches in the 1920s, with organized beach tournaments beginning in 1948. It was added to the Olympics in 1964 and is now the second most popular sport worldwide with approximately 800 million players.
Volleyball has evolved over 122 years from its origins in 1895 as "mintonette" to the internationally popular sport it is today. It was originally designed as a combination of other sports like basketball and tennis. The set and hit was developed in the Philippines in 1916 and changed how the game was played. Volleyball became popular with the US military and was brought to beaches in the 1920s, with organized beach tournaments beginning in 1948. It was added to the Olympics in 1964 and is now the second most popular sport worldwide with approximately 800 million players.
Volleyball has evolved over 122 years from its origins in 1895 as "mintonette" to the internationally popular sport it is today. It was originally designed as a combination of other sports like basketball and tennis. The set and hit was developed in the Philippines in 1916 and changed how the game was played. Volleyball became popular with the US military and was brought to beaches in the 1920s, with organized beach tournaments beginning in 1948. It was added to the Olympics in 1964 and is now the second most popular sport worldwide with approximately 800 million players.
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Rizelle Louisse M.
Cantalejo PED104 2IE-1 November 24, 2019
Volleyball has been around for 122 years. It has been tweaked and changed many times and has slowly grown into the sport that we recognize and love today. Volleyball is a tea sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team’s court under organized rules. It is originally called “mintonette”, was invested 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. One of the spectators of this exhibition match, Dr. Alfred T. Halstead suggested to Morgan that a better name for the sport than Mintonette would be “Volley Ball” (originally two words until 1952, when it was officially change to one word) as obviously the game primarily consisted of volleying a ball back and forth.
Volleyball history began in a town called Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1895. It took
the net from tennis. The net was only 6’6” high, just above the average man’s head. Originally, there was no limit to the number of players on a team or the number of contacts per side and the game was primarily played from the ground.
The set and hit (spike) was first developed in the Philippines in 1916 and changed the way the game was played. Later called volleyball due to the fact that players, “volleyed” the ball back and forth, the sport was embraced by the US military and was played often in their free time.
Volleyball was first played indoors, but it was brought out to the beach sometime in the 1920s. There is some debate about where the first beach volleyball was played. Organized beach tournaments were played as early as 1948 but the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP) did not emerge until 1983. Indoor volleyball was added to the Olympics in 1964. The United States Volleyball Association (USVBA) was formed in 1928 and helped to standardize the rules of the sport in order to make the game competitive enough for tournament play. Around this time, the three-touch rule and back- row attacking regulations were implemented.
Today, Volleyball is second only to soccer in worldwide popularity. Approximately
46 million Americans play the game and an estimated 800 million athletes play all over the world.
