Volleyball originated in America. From 65438 to 0895, it was invented by a sportsman named Williams Guy Morgan in Holyoake, Massachusetts, USA. At that time, tennis and basketball were very popular. Mr Morgan thinks basketball is too intense and tennis is too little. He wants to find an indoor entertainment project with moderate exercise and strong interest, which can be attended by men, women and children. He wanted to move tennis, which was popular at that time, indoors and play it with his hands on the basketball court. At the beginning of the game, he hung the tennis net on the basketball court and played the game with the basketball net like tennis. However, the indoor basketball court is small and tennis is easy to go out of bounds, so he made some improvements: first, he changed the rule that tennis is allowed to return after landing to not landing; The second is to expand the scale of tennis; Third, basketball is too big and too heavy to play in the expected way, so we play basketball instead. And basketball is too timid and erratic in the air. It is inconvenient to play and difficult to control. Therefore, the city's "spaulding Sporting Goods Company" tried to make a ball with a circumference of 25-27 cm (about 255-346 grams). This newly listed ball game did not have a fixed name at first, nor did it have certain venues and rules. There is no limit to the number of participants, as long as the ball doesn't land, you can return the ball from the internet to the opponent's court. This new sport was originally called mintonette. The following year (1896), Dr. Aite hals Dieter of Springfield City College named the ball "Volleyball", which means "flying ball in the air", and this name is still in use today. However, because the trial effect was good, I decided to use this ball. Although the international standard ball has been improved thousands of times in a hundred years, its specifications are almost the same as those of the first generation.
Volleyball, a new sport, won the audience's love and appreciation when YMCA Sports director Meeting was held in the director training institute of Springfield YMCA on 1896. The students of the school formally met the audience in the form of demonstration performances. In the same year, the first volleyball open was held in Springfield, Massachusetts. This is the first volleyball match in the world. At that time, the game used five people against five people. Since then, this new sport has spread rapidly in schools. At the same time, it also aroused the interest of the US Army, and volleyball was included in military sports, which was widely carried out in the Army and once reached fanaticism in the Air Force.
The time when volleyball was introduced to China was 1905 and 19 13. Volleyball was first translated as "team ball" (also called Hualibo) in China, and later changed to "volleyball". 1925 In the 9th Guangdong Sports Meeting held in March, "Hua Libo" was renamed as "Volleyball", mainly taking its meaning of standing in rows. 1964 At the18th Olympic Games held in Tokyo, I played volleyball for the first time.
Volleyball has a history of one hundred years since 1895 was founded. From the beginning, volleyball was just a game and entertainment for a few people. Today, it has become one of the sports that spread all over the world and are deeply loved by the masses.