KIDS TRIVIA

Detailed explanation-1: -The Greater Holyoke YMCA’s physical director, William Morgan, invented volleyball in 1895, in Holyoke, Massachusetts. The Greater Holyoke YMCA continues to run adult volleyball leagues. The game was unveiled at a physical director’s conference at the International YMCA Training School (now Springfield College) in 1896.

Detailed explanation-2: -William G. Morgan (1870-1942), who was born in the State of New York, has gone down in history as the inventor of the game of volleyball, to which he originally gave the name “Mintonette".

Detailed explanation-3: -William G Morgan was the inventor of volleyball in 1895 in Springfield Massachusetts. At the time he was the YMCA Physical Education Director and was intrigued by the sport of basketball which was invented less than 10 miles away and less than 4 year earlier.

Detailed explanation-4: -volleyball, invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan, physical education director of the local Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA).