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INFORMATION AND FACTS ABOUT PLAYING THE GAME OF VOLLEYBALL
The sport of volleyball originated in the USA and is 110 years old but is
only now starting to achieve the type of popularity in the United States
that it has enjoyed on a global basis, where it ranks behind only soccer
among participation sports.
Today there are more than Forty six million Americans who play the game of volleyball. There are 800 million players worldwide who play Volleyball at least once a week. In 1895, William G. Morgan, an instructor at the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke, Massachusetts, decided to combine elements of basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball to create a game for his classes of businessmen which would require less physical contact than basketball. |
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He created the game of Volleyball (at that time called mintonette). He used the net from tennis, and raised it six feet six inches above the floor, just above the average man's head. During a demonstration game, someone said to Morgan that the players seemed to be volleying the ball back and forth over the net, and perhaps "volleyball" would be a more apt name for the sport. On July 7, 1896< at Springfield College the 1st game of "volleyball" was played. BASIC RULES OF VOLLEYBALL SERVING
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- The served ball may graze the net and drop to the other side for point.
- The 1st game serve is determined by a volley, each subsequent game shall be served by the loser of the previous game
- The serve must be returned by a bump only. No setting or attacking a serve.
Scoring
- Rally scoring will be used.
- There will be a point scored on every score of the ball.
- Offense will score on a defense miss or out of bounds hit.
- Defense will score on an offensive miss, out of bounds hit, or serve into the net.
- Game will be played to Twenty five points.
- Must win by two points.
Rotation
- Teams will rotate every time they win the serve.
- Players shall rotate in a clockwise manner.
- There shall be Four to Six players on each side.
- Volleyball Rules Continued......
Volleyball was invented in 1895 by William Morgan at the YMCA (Young Men's Christian Association) in Holyoke, Mass., where he worked as Director of Physical Education.
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The game of volleyball soon proved to have wide appeal for both sexes in schools, playgrounds, the armed forces, and other organizations in the United States, and it was subsequently introduced to other countries.
Volleyball in the United States remains second only to basketball in terms of team sport popularity. Volleyball is so popular that there is an estimated 29 million people playing indoor or beach volleyball.
While basketball was creating excitement in Springfield, Mass., another YMCA instructor, William Morgan, thought the game was "too strenuous for sedate businessmen." He took parts of basketball, tennis and handball into a new game he called "Mintonette" now known as volleyball.
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In the USA alone, there were more than 172,000 volleyball-related injuries that were treated in hospitals, doctors’ offices, clinics, ambulatory surgery centers and hospital emergency rooms according to the U.S. Consumer Safety Product Commission.
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