It refers to a discipline of more than one hundred years of existence that was created in 1895 by William G. Morgan, director of physical education at the Young Men’s Christian Association (YMCA) in the United States. There was a need for a ball; it was tried to use the gut of the Basketball ball but it was found that it was too light and slow; then it was tested with the same basketball, but it was too heavy and large. Finally it was decided that a ball made similar to the current one was what we needed; "Then AG SPALDING and BROTHERS were used to make it and do so at their factory in Chicoppe (Massachusetts)." The ball was made of leather , had a rubber gut, its size was between 25 and 27 inches in circumference and its weight was between 9 and 12 ounces. Morgan rented a bus and took two teams of five players each to Springfield where the game would take place before the speakers at the East Gymnasium. The captain of one of the teams was Major JM Curran, and the other, fire chief John Linch. Morgan explained the new game, originally called a mintonette, designed for a gym or exercise room, but it could also be played outdoors (it was also given the following designations: volleyball, volleyball, volleyball and volleyball, later ). Any number of people could play it. There is no talk of sets or period like today, the period in which a player with the service put the ball in motion and no one answered his serve, instead of point, it was called inning. The object was to keep the ball moving over the net from one side of the field to the other. It was played by combining features of Tennis and Handball. After observing the demonstration and listening to Morgan's report, Professor Alfred T. Halstead took the word volley pass that was made in the game and linked it with the word "Ball", calling it "Volleyball". This name was accepted by Morgan and the group of speakers and thus the name by which we know him was born. At the beginning of 1900 Canada was the first foreign country that adopted the game as a sport to be practiced in various institutions. Soon it was followed by Japan (1908) and the Philippines (1910), where it was included in the program of the first Far Eastern Games, in 1913. Thus began its worldwide expansion.
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