From origins to the Olympics
Written by Black Hot Fire Network on February 13, 2023
For a sport that has been around for over a century, the origin of volleyball traces its roots to a rather humble beginning.
History has it that William G. Morgan, who invented the game of volleyball in 1895, came up with the idea so that people who found basketball’s ‘bumping’ or ‘jolting’ too strenuous could have an alternative physical activity to fall back on.
William G. Morgan, who served as the physical director at the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) Holyoke, Massachusetts, looked at the sports around and picked the aspects . . .
