The sport of volleyball was created in 1895 by William G. Morgan. He was the Director of Physical Education of the YMCA of Massachusetts. William Morgan was born in the state of New York and studied at Springfield College, Massachusetts. According to Bellis (2014), “Ironically at Springfield, Morgan met James Naismith who invented basketball in 1891. Naismith’s game of basketball was inspiration for Mr. Morgan to formulate the game of volleyball.”
Mr. Morgan formed this game by merging various components from other sports to construct a less intense pastime for the elder businessmen that took his courses. The other sports that Morgan used to create this game were baseball, handball, Faustball (a German game), and tennis (how the net came about).
The volleyball, a net, and a court are the equipment used to play a game. The net is set at seven and a half feet tall for the females and eight feet tall for the males. The poles on each side of the net are called Antennae. If the ball strikes antennae or hits outside of either, the ball will be called out of bounds. The attack lines separate the front and backcourts. The front row players are situated between the attack line and the net. The back row players are between the attack line and the end line. The center line splits the court in half and it is below the net. Players can touch the center line but they may not cross it. These actions will result in a fault for that team. When faults and errors occur they result in one point for the opposite squad. The service area is the space outside the end lines where the ball is served from.
Each team wears numbered jerseys, shorts, and sneakers (inside). Some players wear knee and elbow pads for protection from the hard ...
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...an Trophy Award. In 1995 during the centennial year of volleyball, the William G. Morgan foundation recognized this highly prestigious award. In 1964, the game of volleyball was presented to the Olympic Games. The game has become a very popular sport internationally.
Volleyball is a great pastime played by many people. Many enjoy the game just to rev up their engines. It is a great way to get the blood flowing. It is a game that can be played by all ages. Many family and friends play the game on beaches, at parks, and in recreational centers. There are many different leagues for people of all ages to be involved in. It can be a very competitive game. However, games are made to be played for all to enjoy. Middle school aged children are usually time when children can began to play on organized teams. This could result into a future Morgan Trophy winner.
I have played volleyball for 5 years. I have played school volleyball for five years, and club volleyball for four. Throughout my years of playing, I have recognized a significant difference between club volleyball and school volleyball. I have played for two clubs in my four years of playing club. The first two years, I played for a club named Platform Elite. The last two years, I have played for Iowa Select, and this year I am playing my club season with Infinity X. Personally, I prefer club volleyball over school volleyball. Club volleyball and school volleyball can be compared in three different categories: price, competition, and “politics” within the sport and its’ players.
Volleyball is a great sport, it is very fun!! The attire for volleyball is a jersey, shorts, knee pads and special volleyball shoes. Some equipment that you need to play volleyball with, first of all you need a net, ball, 6 players on a court, court, referee,
Volleyball represents my most meaningful commitment not just because I have invested so much into it, but also because it it’s a passion of mine and has been a part of my life since elementary school. The impact my coaches and teammates have had on my life has helped make me the confident and determined individual I am today. Volleyball also takes up a lot of time and there are many sacrifices that come with the sport and playing on a team. To keep up my skills, I have had to give up a lot of my free time and parts of my summer. Balancing school with practices was also a challenge, but participating in one of my passions made it worthwhile. I have persevered through difficult times and learned new lessons along the way, so there is nothing that could make this sport less meaningful to me. (148)
Volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan. It was created because basketball was good for kids, but it was too tiring for the local businessmen. Volleyball contained less running and it needed less endurance for the men to play. It was less strenuous, but it has evolved from there. Morgan wanted a game with strong athletic impulse, but no physical contact. He combined a tennis net and a basketball, and took the idea of innings from baseball. He soon found out that a basketball was too heavy, so he designed a new ball that was softer and lighter, the Volleyball. The Volleyball was originated in the United States on July 7, 1896 at Springfield College where the first volleyball game was played. The game started out going to twenty one points, but
There are the positions of libero, which is someone who only plays the back row passing the whole time and wears a different color jersey than everyone else on the team. There is a middle blocker and hitter, outside blocker and hitter, right side hitter and blocker, setter, and DS, which is a person who can sub in for whoever. The game goes to 25 and there can be a minimum of 2, 25 point games. First, the person serves the ball and the team can only have 3 contacts with the ball and it is usually a pass, set, then kill. If the ball touches the ground inside the lines on the other team, i is you point and you get to serve again. If it is out of the lines, it is the other teams point and ball. You can not touch the net during anything or it is called a net foul then it would be the other team's ball. If the ball is touched more than 3 times it is the other team's ball.
The sport is what we know today as basketball. Basketball is however, completely different than it was in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. A man in Massachusetts with the last name Naismith, was given a task to create an organized team sport that could be held indoors during the cold winter months. It was not an easy task because he was trying to come up with a game that was completely different than any of the other outdoor sports that were too dangerous to play indoors. He also had to create a sport that involved teamwork and not just one or two players being the star of the game. The players had to communicate during the game in order to do well. There could not be one person that carried the whole team but, a collaborative team effort in order to score and win the game. The game of basketball would eventually change to become the game that we know
Illustrating the arrangement of players mathematically requires that one understand the standard dimensions of a volleyball court. According to Lithio and Webb (2006), a standard volleyball court resembles a rectangle, which is 59 ft long by 29 ft, 6 in. wide. A net, centrally placed, separates the court into two squares. Stretching from the end of every side of the volleyball court is an area from which the ball is served, at least 6 ft wide. A player can stand in any region of this area to serve (consider figure 1) (Lithio & Webb, 2006).
Who invented the game of volleyball? William G. Morgan was the inventor volleyball. He was a physical director of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA). During the time, Morgan was living in Holyoke, Massachusetts. Basketball was just created and Morgan thought it was too aggressive. After basketball, volleyball was created by William G. Morgan.
Though soccer may have been the earliest organized sport in the British colonies and early United States, it soon had to compete with baseball, football, and basketball. The first baseball game was on June 9th, 1846. People liked it because younger people could play. It was very popular among immigrants from England, Germany, and Ireland. In 1857 the National Association of Baseball Players was started. Then December 5th, 1856 a newspaper called baseball the “national pastime.” Then by the late 1800s American football, which combined rugby and Boston soccer, became increasingly popular. Three presidents played or coached football: Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. Basketball was not invented until t...
The way Morgan incorporated Tennis into his game is by using a similar net; however, he raised the height to six feet and six inches off the ground. He also created this game for his fellow business men (Blain).
In both sports, training, having a good season, using appropriate uniforms and equipments are needed. Both sports use uniforms, sports shoes, water bottles and an adequate weight to train. However, these sports have some significant differences as well as similarities. One of the differences is the net. In Basketball, for example, the hoop is 18 inches in diameter and 10 feet high located in both sides of the court. On the contrary, the net in Volleyball is 39 inches tall and 32 feet long; this provides one foot of netting on each side of the court. Another important difference is the ball. In Basketball, the ball has an inflatable inner rubber bladder wrapped in layers of fiber and covered with a tacky surface made with leather, rubber, or
I have played volleyball for seven years now, but ever since I watched my sister play when she was in junior high, it’s been my favorite sport. I love everything about it from setting and digging to serving and passing. I couldn’t imagine what I would be doing if I didn’t play volleyball. Many of the important parts of volleyball have changed since William G. Morgan invented the sport. It also has a very interesting beginning. Volleyball is a game that was invented by William G. Morgan; since it was invented, the rules and equipment have been constantly changing.
Although many sports are not considered American-made, basketball is one of the few that began in America. In fact it is the only major sport that can be considered American-made (Encyclopedia.com, Basketball). The inventor of basketball was Dr. James Naismith, who created the sport in 1891(History.com Staff, NBA is Born). This was all the way back when there were only forty-four states(nbahoopsonline.com, NBA History). He made the sport in Springfield, Massachusetts(History.com Staff, NBA is Born). Naismith invented this sport because he was P.E. teacher seeking a sport with limited physical contact, but it contained running, jumping, shooting, and hand-eye coordination(Encyclopedia.com, Basketball). The game first used peach baskets and a soccer like ball(History.com Staff,
White, S. A., Psychological Skills: Differences between Volleyball Players on the Youth National Team and Those Involved in the 14’s High-Performance Camp, Unpublished Thesis, Illinois State University, Normal, IL.
I have decided to focus this mathematical investigation on volleyball. I have always enjoyed playing volleyball as a sport and I wanted to see if it would be possible to use mathematics to predict if I could win after being a certain amount of points behind my opponent. After doing some research, I noticed that even though it is possible to calculate the basic probability of winning after losing for a few points, there are still many variables that may affect the actual outcome of the game. Thus, I decided that I wanted to focus on one specific aspect of volleyball that would actually help me become a better volleyball player. The technique that I ended up choosing is serving because serving is one of the most basic ways that can