Poplar Tent Volleyball Club
ABOUT VOLLEYBALL
William G. Morgan, the athletic director of the Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) in Holyoke, Massachusetts, invented volleyball in 1895. It was created as an indoor sport for businesspeople who deemed the new sport of basketball to be too strenuous. Morgan referred to the sport as "mintonette" until a professor from Springfield College in Massachusetts noticed the volleying feature of the game and suggested the term "volleyball." Morgan wrote the initial guidelines, which were 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 rapidly gained popularity among both genders in schools, playgrounds, military services, and other groups in the United States, and it was later introduced to other countries.
