William G. Morgan, an instructor at the Young Men ... to be volleying the ball back and forth over the net, and perhaps “volleyball” would be a more descriptive name for the sport.

If that sounds a whole lot like volleyball, it’s because it is. On February 9, 1895, a man named William G. Morgan invented volleyball, which he called mintonette, at the YMCA in Holyoke ...

In the late 1800s, William G. Morgan was attending Springfield College in Massachusetts when he invented a sport called "mintonette." This birth of what became volleyball occurred just a few years ...

Indoor volleyball has a long history in Minnesota. The sport, originally invented in Massachusetts in the 1890s by YMCA physical director William G. Morgan, was one of several that served as good ...

Volleyball was invented in Holyoke, Massachusetts, USA, by William G. Morgan in the late nineteenth century. Morgan, became a director of physical education and was looking for a recreational game to ...

To this end, William G. Morgan decided to rethink and combine basketball, tennis and badminton. Volleyball as we know it today was born. Volleyball developed into a complex discipline and the ...