The history of volleyball is built with so many interesting volleyball facts, and those would be the first things we will discuss here. Volleyball was invented initially to be played by businessmen who need some pastime exercise, the inventor is William G Morgan a YMCA director who created this game in 1895. When the first time this game being played the rules of volleyball was quite simple, each side can have as many players as there was no limitation on the numbers, also there was no 3 hits rule as this rule was not implemented until 1920.
After the introduction of this game, volleyball started to gain popularity and spread all over the world, the people outside of the USA not only playing this game but they also made some great improvements on this game. In Philippines, the players were inventing some interesting offensive play with set and spike in 1916, and volleyball became more attractive to young people since then, and probably this was also the reason why it was so easily accepted in high schools and colleges in America. Another important improvement was made in Bulgaria when the first governing body of volleyball was established, The USA followed 8 years later by forming the United States Volleyball Association (USVBA) in 1928.
That's not all the improvements made in the history of volleyball, there are still plenty of facts on volleyball we can see here. At first, the height of the net is only 6'6" before it was raised to 7'11 5/8", and back then, "volleyball" is not even the name given for this game, this game was introduced by the name "mintonette". Most changes of the volleyball probably related to its rules, in 1920 the back row attack rule was being introduced and then in 1940's the forearm pass was implemented in the game.
In the Olympic, volleyball was started being played in 1964, and this increase the popularity of this sport massively. Over 800 million volleyball players in the world today, and this game has earn the predicate of the most played sport in the world next to soccer. Hopefully the facts about volleyball could enrich your knowledge about this game and make you love this sport even more.
