Historical Development and Modern Trends in Volleyball: A Review

Authors

  • Devender Research Scholar, Department of Physical Education, OPJS University, Churu,Rajasthan

Keywords:

Volleyball, Women, Game

Abstract

Volleyball is actually the 5th most popular sport, and the second most popular team sport in the world, with over 900 Million fans around the globe. It’s also a fairly recent sport, developed at Springfield Massachusetts in 1895 by YMCA instructor William G. Morgan. The sport, originally named ‘mintonette’, borrowed ideas from a number of sports including basketball, tennis, handball and baseball. The following year, professor Alfred Halstead proposed changing the name to ‘volleyball’ after observing the volleying nature of the game. The sport became very popular, very quickly, being played by both men and women around the country at various colleges, playgrounds and even throughout the armed forces.

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Published

2017-12-31

How to Cite

Devender. (2017). Historical Development and Modern Trends in Volleyball: A Review. Innovative Research Thoughts, 3(11), 177–182. Retrieved from https://irt.shodhsagar.com/index.php/j/article/view/353

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Vol. 3 No. 11 (2017): Volume 3 | Issue 11 | 2017

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