Originating in the United States, volleyball is NOW reaching the scales in the United States as it has been at the scales long ago on a global reach. It ranks just below soccer in popularity. 1n 1845, William G. Morgan, an instructor at a YMCA ,thought that blending elements of basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball for a lazy group of businessmen would be a great idea since they wanted less physical contact than basketball. At the time they called it mintonette. The game was fit for a gymnasium but could also be played outside. As Morgan and his group were playing a game someone declaimed to Morgan that the players appeared to be volleying the the ball back and forth over the net and that maybe volleyball would be a better name for the sport. When the sport reached Japan and Asia through the YMCA around 1896, a new designed ball came to be in 1900. By another 20 years rules were set into place. The Philippines made the set and spike in 1916. And in another two years the six a side play was standard. In 1920 the rules stating three hits per side and back row attacks were allowed. Also around the 1920s the United States and the rest of the world started National Volleyball Associations. After the United States brought the sport overseas in WW2 the sport spread like Nutella through Europe. Nowadays volleyball is one of the best known sports in the world.

http://ncva.com/info/general-info/history-of-volleyball/

Mansfield- North Penn - Caitlyn Callahan