HISTORY OF VOLLEYBALL

WILLIAM G. MORGAN - FATHER OF VOLLEYBALL (NAPEÑAS, Tanya – BS Biology 1-6)

 Born in 1870 at Lockport, New York, William G. Morgan spent his childhood years attending public
school and working at his father's boat yard on the banks of the Old Erie Canal.
 In 1891 Morgan entered Mt. Hermon Preparatory School in Northfield, Massachusetts, and it was
there he developed a friendship with James A. Naismith, who was destined to be the originator of
basketball. Naismith was impressed with young Morgan's athletic skills and encouraged Morgan to
continue his education at the International Young Men's Christian Association Training School in
Springfield, Massachusetts (now called Springfield College).
 While at Springfield, Morgan participated on the college's famous football team which played
championship ball under the leadership of Alonzo A. Stagg, one of the "Grand Old Men of Football".
 In 1894, after graduation, Morgan accepted the position of physical director of the Auburn, Maine
YMCA. The following year he accepted a similar post in Holyoke, Massachusetts, and it was here
the story of Volleyball began.

INVENTION OF THE GAME (MANUEL, Patricia Marie — BS Biology 1-6)

 In 1895 William G. Morgan the physical director of YMCA noticed The newly created game of
basketball, was popular with the kids but too strenuous for the local businessmen. That’s why he
needed an alternative - something these older gentlemen could play - something without too much
"bumping" or "jolting". It had to be physical - playing a game, after work and at lunch time, should
provide exercise, but it also had to relax the participants - it couldn't be too aggressive.
 It had to be a sport, Morgan said, "with a strong athletic impulse, but no physical contact."
 So, he borrowed:
o From basketball, he took the ball.
o From tennis the net.
o The use of hands and the ability to play off the walls and over hangs, he borrowed from
handball.
o And, from baseball, he took the concept of innings.
 He termed this new game "Mintonette". And though admittedly incomplete, it proved successful
enough to win an audience at the YMCA Physical Director's Conference held in Springfield,
Massachusetts the next year.
 It was at this conference that Dr. Alfred Halstead, a professor at Springfield College, suggested a
two-word version of its present name. "Volley Ball".
 The game of volleyball was quite a bit different from what we're used to. It was played on a smaller
25'x50' court, with an unlimited number of players hitting the ball an unlimited number of times,
on either side of a 6'6" high net. Things tended to get a little crowded.
 Each game was broken up into nine innings, each inning made up of three outs, or "serves". These
serves could be helped over the net by a second player, if the server didn't quite reach the net.
 The basketball originally used proved to be a little too heavy, and the subsequent use of a
basketball bladder, too soft. Morgan remedied this by contacting A.G. Spalding, a local sporting
goods manufacturer who designed a special ball - a rubber bladder, encased in leather, 25" or so
in circumference. The "volleyball".
  Though still in its infancy, the sport was slowly developing and with the YCMA taking the reigns,
Morgan was confident volleyball would continue to entertain and relax the boys down at the "Y".

WORLDWIDE GROWTH (FETIZANAN, Abijah Glad and BERNABE, Erika Faye)

 The physical education directors of the YMCA, encouraged particularly by two professional schools
of physical education, Springfield College in Massachusetts and George Williams College in Chicago
(now at Downers Grove, Illinois), adopted volleyball in all its societies throughout the United States,
Canada (in 1900 Canada became the first foreign country to adopt the game), and also in many
other countries: Elwood S. Brown in the Philippines (1910), J. Howard Crocker in China, Franklin H.
Brown in Japan (1908), Dr. J.H. Gray in Burma, in China and in India, and others in Mexico and South
American, European and African countries.

 By 1913 the development of volleyball on the Asian continent was assured as, in that year, the
game was included in the program of the first Far-Eastern Games, organized in Manila. It should
be noted that, for a long time, volleyball was played in Asia according to the "Brown" rules which,
among other things, used 16 players (to enable a greater participation in matches).

 An indication of the growth of volleyball in the United States is given in an article published in 1916
in the Spalding Volleyball Guide and written by Robert C. Cubbon. In that article Cubbon estimated
that the number of players had reached a total of 200,000 people subdivided in the following way:
in the YMCA (boys, young men, and older men) 70,000, in the YWCA (girls and women) 50,000, in
schools (boys and girls) 25,000 and in colleges (young men) 10,000.

 In 1916, the YMCA managed to induce the powerful National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
to publish its rules and a series of articles, contributing to the rapid growth of volleyball among
young college students. In 1918 the number of players per team was limited to six, and in 1922 the
maximum number of authorized contacts with the ball was fixed at three.

 Until the early 1930s volleyball was for the most part a game of leisure and recreation, and there
were only a few international activities and competitions. There were different rules of the game
in the various parts of the world; however, national championships were played in many countries
(for instance, in Eastern Europe where the level of play had reached a remarkable standard).

 Volleyball thus became more of a competitive sport with high physical and technical performance.

THE FIVB (MERCADO, Aubrey — BS Biology 1-6)

 It has seen the start of two centuries and the dawn of a new millennium. Volleyball is now one of
the big five international sports, and the FIVB, with its 220 affiliated national federations, is the
largest international sporting federation in the world.

 Volleyball has witnessed unprecedented growth over the last decade. With the great success of
world competitions such as the FIVB World Championships, the FIVB World League, the FIVB World
Grand Prix, the FIVB World Cup, and the FIVB Grand Champions Cup as well as the Olympic Games,
the level of participation at all levels internationally continues to grow exponentially.
  The beach volleyball phenomenon also continues to amaze. The overwhelming spectator and
television success of Beach Volleyball since its introduction to the Olympic Games at Atlanta 1996
and the stunning success of the FIVB Swatch World Tour and World Championships has opened up
volleyball to a completely new market.

SOURCE: https://www.volleyhall.org/page/show/3821594-history-of-volleyball

HISTORY OF VOLLEYBALL IN THE PHILIPPINES

(Laserna – BSN 2-2)

Philippines had more influence over the style of modern volleyball than you might think. In fact, Philippine
volleyball players invented the set and spike. More than 800 million people in the world play volleyball at
least once a week, according to information from the Westlake High School physical education department.

Origins (Umlas, Gatchalian – BSN 2-2)

The history of volleyball in the Philippines dates back to 1910.
 Elwood S. Brown
– Physical director of the YMCA
– First introduced volleyball to the Philippines that year.

Philippine people began to play volleyball as a backyard spot and games of beach volleyball soon followed,
according to information from the Philippine Volleyball Federation, or PVF.
Players hung the net between two trees and made up their own rule regarding the number of players on
each side and how many times you could hit the ball before sending it over the net.

Three-hit Limit (Reyes – BSN 2-2)

Philippine style of Volleyball inspired the Americans to create the three-hit limit, according to PVF.
Before the rule, Philippine volleyball teams would sometimes let every player hit the ball before sending it
to the opposing side. This took too much time and snuffed out the challenge and competitive nature of the
game.

Set and Spike (Ruiz – BSN 2-2)

With the new three-hit rule in place, Philippine players experimented with new volleyball techniques and
came up with the set and spike, a.k.a the “Filipino Bomb”.
In offensive passing style, one player hits the volleyball and sends it high in the air to set it up for another
player on her team. A second player then strikes the ball sending it over the net at a downward angle. This
is called spiking the ball.
Philippine Amateur Volleyball Association (Elizarde – BSN 2-2)

July 4, 1961 – marks the birth of the Philippine Amateur Volleyball Association.
The director for the playground and recreation bureau, members of the business community and others
gathered to create an organized volleyball association in the Philippines.
Philippine Amateur Volleyball Association was later named the Philippine Amateur Volleyball Association
and is currently called the Philippine Volleyball Federation. It is affiliated with and accredited by the
Philippine Olympic Committee, Asian Volleyball Confederation and the Federation and the Federation
International de Volleyball.