Volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan, physical director of the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke, Massachusetts.
It was designed as an indoor sport for businessmen who found the new game of basketball too vigorous. Morgan called the sport “mintonette,” until a professor from Springfield College in Massachusetts noted the volleying nature of play and proposed the name of “volleyball.” The original rules were written by Morgan and printed in the first edition of the Official Handbook of the Athletic League of the Young Men’s Christian Associations of North America(1897). The game soon proved to have wide appeal for both sexes in schools, playgrounds, the armed forces, and other organizations in the US, and it was subsequently introduced to other countries.
Volleyball, game played by two teams, usually of six players on a side, in which the players use their hands to bat a ball back and forth over a high net, trying to make the ball touch the court within the opponents’ playing area before it can be returned. To prevent this a player on the opposing team bats the ball up and toward a teammate before it touches the court surface—that teammate may then volley it back across the net or bat it to a third teammate who volleys it across the net. A team is allowed only three touches of the ball before it must be returned over the net
There is two common type of volleyball the indoor and the beach volleyball. Indoor volleyball is played with 6 player for each team and the court dimension is 9m x 18m with a parallel attack line of 3m. Beach Volley is played with 2 players for each team and the court size is 8m x 16m.
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