Who invented volleyball where and when

The first rules required for a net to be 6 feet 6 inches 1. Each team could have as many players as a team wanted. A match was nine innings with three serves for each team in each inning. There was no limit to the number of ball contacts for each team before sending the ball to the other side of the court. In case of a miss serve, a second try was allowed. Hitting the ball into the net was a fault, with loss of the point or a side-out, except in the case of a first serve attempt.

An unlimited number of players could participate, the object of the game being to keep the ball in movement over a high net, from one side to the other. After seeing the demonstration, and hearing the explanation of Morgan, Professor Alfred T. Halstead called attention to the action, or the act phase, of the ball's flight, and proposed that the name "Mintonette" be replaced by "Volley Ball.

Morgan explained the rules and worked on them, then gave a hand-written copy to the conference of YMCA directors of physical education, as a guide for the use and development of the game.

A committee was appointed to study the rules and produce suggestions for the game's promotion and teaching. A brief report on the new game and its rules was published in the July edition of "Physical Education" and the rules were included in the edition of the first official handbook of the North American YMCA Athletic League.

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 Canada became the first foreign country to adopt the game , and also in many other countries: Elwood S.

Brown in the Philippines , J. Howard Crocker in China, Franklin H. Brown in Japan , Dr. By the development of volleyball on the Asian continent was assured as, in that year, the game was included in the programme 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 in the Spalding Volleyball Guide and written by Robert C. Starting in , two-man beach volleyball was officially introduced to the Olympics.

Today, there are more than million volleyball players worldwide, 46 million of them in the U. In , in the Philippines, an offensive style of passing the ball in a high trajectory to be struck by another player the set and spike were introduced. Twenty-seven teams from 11 states were represented.

The first U. Open was staged, as the field was open to non-YMCA squads. Volleyball Association as the official national governing body in the U. In , the U. The men won the gold, and the women the silver. NCSA Reviews. He died on December 27, , in his hometown of Lockport, New York, at the age of Very quickly as years went by, Mintonette started evolving with new rules being introduced from all around the world.

This included three hits rule, switch to 15 points per set, use of volley serves and other rules such as the inability to hit from the back row.

As the volleyball spread across the Europe during First World War US troops brought with them more than 16 thousand volleyballs , this sport experienced the meteoric rise of popularity all across the world.

Naturally, the first country outside of the US that adapted volleyball was Canada, but quickly after the sport became very popular in Brazil, Netherlands, Italy, Spain, Eastern European countries and Asia especially in China. A popular variation of volleyball also started being played at beaches.

This type of outdoor play on very soft surface promoted the use of fewer players, enabling them to engage in more energetic play that promoted jumping to reach difficult hits and falling on the sand.

Beach volleyball was played by amateurs until when it became officially endorsed by FIVB. In just a few years, beach volleyball entered Summer Olympics. Volleyball 1st entry into Olympic games can be traced all the way back to Summer Olympics in Paris.