The origin and development of volleyball:
Volleyball originated in the United States. In 1895, an American sports staff member named Williams Guy Morgan wanted to move tennis, which was already widely popular at that time, indoors and play it with hands on the basketball court. However, the indoor basketball court is small and the tennis ball can easily go out of bounds, so he made some improvements: First, he changed the rule that the tennis ball is allowed to hit the ground before hitting back to the ground. The second is to expand the size of the tennis ball and use basketball bladders to inflate it. beat. The next year, a doctor named the ball "Walibo", which means "flying ball in the air". The time when volleyball was introduced to China is said to be 1905 or 1913. "Hualibo" was renamed "volleyball" at the Ninth Sports Meeting of Guangdong Province held in March 1925, mainly taking its meaning of standing in rows. At the 18th Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, volleyball was played for the first time.
Volleyball has a history of one hundred years since its founding in 1895. From the beginning, volleyball was just a game and entertainment method for a few people. Today, it has become one of the sports that spreads across the five continents of the world and is loved by the masses.
Volleyball was invented in 1895 by a sports director named William Morgan in Holyoke, Massachusetts (formerly known as Massachusetts). At that time, tennis and basketball were very popular. Mr. Morgan believed that basketball was too intense and tennis was too light. He wanted to find an indoor entertainment project that was moderate in amount of exercise and interesting, and that both men, women and children could participate in, so he invented the volleyball game.
When this game started, he hung the tennis net on the basketball court and used a basketball to separate the net and play the game like tennis. But because the basketball was too big and heavy, it couldn't be played as expected, so I tried a basketball bladder instead. The basketball is too light and floats erratically in the air. It is inconvenient to play and difficult to control. Therefore, the city's "Spalding Sporting Goods Company" tried to make a ball with a circumference of 25-27 inches (about 255-346 grams). After trying it out with good results, we decided to use this kind of ball. Although the current international standard ball has gone through hundreds of years and undergone thousands of improvements, the specifications of the ball are almost the same as those of the first generation.
This new sport was originally named mintonette (small net). In 1896, Professor Halsted of Springfield suggested the name Volleyball (meaning continuous hitting in the air). The name remains in use today. Volleyball was first translated as "team ball" in my country, and later changed to "volleyball".
Volleyball is a new sport. In 1896, when the Youth Association of Springfield Youth Association Officer Training College held a meeting of the Youth Association Sports Officers in Springfield City, students from the school officially met with the audience in the form of demonstration performances. Won the audience's love and appreciation. In the same year, the first volleyball open tournament was held in Springfield. This was the world's first volleyball match. At that time, the game was five-on-five. Since then, this new sport has spread rapidly in schools. At the same time, it also aroused the interest of the U.S. military, and included volleyball as a military sports event. It was widely carried out in the military and once reached a fever pitch in the Air Force.