William Morgan, a physical education director at a Massachusetts YMCA, invented volleyball in 1895. It is believed American missionaries in the early 1900s introduced the game to villagers in ...

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 ...

Learn more about the defensive specialist position that you’ll see as part of both the Olympic men’s and women’s volleyball teams this summer in Paris. In 1895, William G. Morgan ...

Volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan in Holyoke, Mass.—just 10 miles away from where James Naismith invented basketball. The sport gradually grew and in 1947 Fédération ...

Volleyball was introduced to Sri Lanka in 1916. Volleyball originally was introduced to the world by William J. Mogen of the United States of America in 1895. Since then volleyball has been spreading.

Volleyball was invented in Holyoke in 1895 by William G. Morgan, a physical education director at the local YMCA. The city’s International Volleyball Hall of Fame currently has over 160 ...