Volleyball History

OVERVIEW
• One of the most successful and popular competitive and recreational sports
in the world. It is Fast, it is exciting and the action is explosive. A sport played
by two teams on a playing court divided by a net.
• The objective of the game is to send the ball over the net in order to ground
it on the opponent’s court, and to prevent the same effort by the opponent.
• The ball is put in play with service: hit y the server over the net to the
opponents. The rally continues until the ball is grounded on the playing
court, goes “out” or a team fails to return it properly.
• William G. Morgan invented the game. FIVB (International Federation of
Volleyball) - Highest governing body of the sport founded in Paris, France in
1947. - Its headquarters are located in Lausanne, Switzerland and its current
president is Ary Graça.
HISTORY
• WILLIAM G. MORGAN
A physical education director in the YMCA in Holyoke,
Massachusetts, USA.
HISTORY
⮚ The game was first develop in 1895 by William G. Morgan who had
completed his degree in physical education in 1894 at Springfield college.
⮚ While working as physical education instructor at YMCA in Holyhoke,
Massachusetts, he attempted to get the local business men involved in
the game of basketball. He succeeded in getting some men to play for
recreation purposes, but some older men didn’t.
⮚ He also considered having them play tennis, but rejected the idea because
of the equipment required and it is also too costly. Until he decided to
blend the elements of basketball, baseball, tennis and handball to create a
game for his classes that would demand less physical contact than
basketball.
⮚Morgan called his game “mintonette” the first name of
volleyball.
⮚July 7, 1896, Morgan was invited to exhibit his game
mintonette at Springfield college.
HIS ⮚J. Curran and John Lynch, the mayor and fire chief of Holyoke
are among the participants of the exhibition
TO ⮚During the exhibition, Morgan gave the presider a copy of the
RY rules of the game-written in long hand.
⮚Alfred Halstead a faculty of Springfield College is one of the
expectator during the exhibition game. As observer ,he
noticed that players were “volleying” the ball back and forth
above the net. That day he named it “Volleyball”.
⮚In 1896, W.E Day introduced the new sports at Dayton,
Ohio. He developed some new rules:
✔@ The Net raised to seven and one-half feet

HIS ✔@ Eliminating the possibility of dribbling the ball
( multiple hits by one player)
TO
✔@ Standardized score to 21 points.
RY
⮚In 1912, the modern version of the rules was started.
✔@ The Court and Ball were standardized.
✔@ The players is required to rotate before a serve
⮚In 1916, the YMCA and NCAA published the rules of the game
and made additional change.
✔@ Height of the net at eight feet
HIS ✔@ Set the game score at 15
TO ✔@ A two out three set games.
RY ⮚Early 1920s, A. Provost Idell and his teammates added a few
more rules.
✔@ Standardized the court at 30x60 feet.
✔@ Limiting the number o hits per side to three
✔@ Required that the ball be played only from above the waist.
Popularity of Volleyball
Volleyball become popular around the world. The game was introduced to the
different country;
• 1910 in the Philippines
• 1913 in Japan
• 1915 in Poland
• 1916 in Uruguay
• 1919 in Brazil and Latvia
• 1922 in Syria
After world war I, the game was introduced throughout Europe.
In early 1920s, the University of Illinois began to teach volleyball as a physical
education activity. The University began an intramural program featuring volleyball
competition.
In 1928, Oregon started a first college team. The University of Washington
followed with a team in 1934. These team played in recreational leagues.
1941 the first the first university volleyball league began with 12 team, among
them are teams from Columbia, Temple, and the University of Pennsylvania.
Many colleges fielded club teams in the late 1940s, and by 1952 the NCAA was
willing to sponsor national championships if eight schools were ready to field
varsity teams. But during that time only six were ready with varsity team.
The United States Volleyball Association (USVBA) was formed in 1928, by 1937
it controlled the game in the United States.
International Volleyball Federation (IVF) was formed in 1947 to regulate the

game throughout the world.
⮚First World Championship were held in 1953.
⮚In 1955 volleyball was played in the 1st Pan American Games.
⮚1964 Volleyball became an Olympic Sport.
⮚A recent poll showed that 800 million people in the world play
volleyball at least once week.
⮚Out of 50 sports listed in the survey, volleyball was in the
twelfth most popular sports.
⮚It showed also in the poll that in the last 25 years the sports had
increased in popularity by 500% and that is growing even more
rapidly today.
Volleyball in the Philippines
⮚1910 Volleyball was introduced in the Philippines.
⮚Elwood S. Brown, Director of Physical Education of the YMCA
introduced the game to the Philippines.
⮚Philippine Volleyball Federation (PVF) first organization was
organized.
⮚July 4, 1961, Philippine Amateur Volleyball Association (PAVA)
was formed, organized by Playground and Recreation Bureau
(PRB).
⮚PAVA was renamed into Philippine Volleyball Federation (PVF) in
2003.
⮚ PVF was recognized and accredited by different sporting bodies like
the Philippine Olympic Committee, Asian Volleyball Confederation and
the Federation International de Volleyball until 2015.
⮚ Larong Volleyball sa Pilipinas (LVPI) is currently the sole national
governing body of volleyball in the Philippines recognized as an
affiliate and an accredited association by the Philippine Olympic
Committee (POC), the Asian Volleyball Confederation (AVC) and the
Federation Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB).
CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE PHILIPPINES TO
VOLLEYBALL
⮚ Three Hit Limit
⮚ Set and Spike also known as the “Filipino Bomb”
Word to Ponder
⮚ Select a WORD that triggers your interest

from this session.
❑ Why? (give at least 3 sentences)
❑ 5 points
Reflection
Wear your smile and have a happy

Thank you ☺
References
⮚ Volleyball Today, Dunphy, Marv and Rod Wilde, second edition
⮚ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Volleyball
⮚ http://www.fivb.org/EN/Refereeing-Rules/documents/FIVB-Volleyba
ll_Rules_2017-2020-EN-v04.pdf

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OVERVIEW

✔@ The Net raised to seven and one-half feet

International Volleyball Federation (IVF) was formed in 1947 to regulate the

⮚ Select a WORD that triggers your interest

Wear your smile and have a happy

⮚ Volleyball Today, Dunphy, Marv and Rod Wilde, second edition

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