9th February 1895: Volleyball invented by William G. Morgan

Morgan had attended the YMCA’s Springfield College where he had met James Naismith, the inventor of basketball. After graduating Morgan continued to work for the YMCA and soon took the position of Director of Physical Education in nearby Holyoke.
Having noticed that the speed of basketball made it too challenging for weaker men and older athletes, Morgan set about devising a new game. Drawing on basketball’s original aims of being a sport that could be played inside with minimal physical contact, Morgan later wrote that ‘tennis occurred to me, but this required rackets, balls, a net and other equipment, so it was eliminated - but the idea of a net seemed a good one.’
Naming his game ‘mintonette’, Morgan took a year to refine the rules before staging an exhibition match. This took place at the 1896 YMCA Physical Directors Conference at Springfield after Morgan impressed the director of the professional physical education training school, Dr. Luther Gulick. The game received a positive reception from the delegates including Dr. Alfred T. Halstead who suggested renaming it to Volley Ball to better reflect the objective of the game. The two words were eventually combined to form Volleyball in 1952.
After the positive response to the exhibition game Morgan continued to experiment with the rules, firstly by raising the height of the net and then by trying different types of balls to achieve the optimum weight and speed. Sporting goods company A.G. Spalding & Bros. eventually created a new type of ball that achieved the perfect balance he was seeking and, within just a few years, Morgan’s game had begun to spread around the world.

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Based on one of Merriam Webster's game Volleyball was created because Basketball was too vigorous for businessmen to play

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Volleyball invention by William G. Morgan

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