The
volleyball was created in the year of 1895 by American William
C.Morgan, director of physical education of the Christian
Association of Young man (ACM), in the city of Holyoke, in
Massachusets, in United States of North America. The original name
of the new sport was minonette. In that time, the sport in fashion
was the basketball, that had just been instituted three years ago to
put Nasmith and that quickly had spread. It was very energetic and
tiresome for men of age. To put suggestion of Shepherd Lawrece
Rinder, Morgan idealized a less tiring game than the basketball for
the associated ones older of ACM and it placed a similar net the one
of tennis, to a height of 1,83cm, on which a camera of basketball
ball was beaten the sport that would be denominated volleyball later
appearing like this.
The
first ball used in the volleyball (camera of basketball ball) it was
very heavy, and, to put this reason, Morgan requested the firm A.G
..Stalding & .Brothers the production a bullet for referred him
sport. Mentioned her firm, after several experiences, ended up
satisfying to the done demands to put Morgan.
In
the beginning that sport was restricted the city of Holpoke and to
the gym where Morgan was the director. In a taken conference the
effect in the University of Springfield, among directors of Physical
education of United States, two teams of Holyoke made a
demonstration of the sport it has been creating not very. After this
demonstration, the volleyball was extended by Springfield and other
cities of Massachusets and New England.
In
Springfield, Dr. A.T.Halsted, after observing the new sport,
suggested that its name was changed of minonette for volleyball,
tends in view that the basic idea of the game was to play the ball
to and fro, for on the net, with the hands.
The
first article on the game appeared published in the number of July
of 1896 of Physical Education. Its author, J.Y.Cameron, of Buffalo,
New Yorque, wrote: " The volleyball is a new game, exactly adapted
for the gym or it squares cover, more than it cannot, also, to be
practiced outdoors. Any number of people can practice it. The game
consists of conserving the ball in movement on a high net, to and
fro, and it presents, like this, the characteristics of the other
games, as the tennis and the handball ".
The
first volleyball block had the following measures: length - 15,35m:
width - 7,625 m. THE net had the height of 1,98m. THE ball was made
of a rubber camera covered with leather or canvas of clear color and
he/she had for circuferência 67,5 cm and its weight was of 255 to
340 g.
The
volleyball appeared in South America, through Peru, the year of
1910, through a mission hired by the Peruvian government, close to
United States, with the purpose of organizing the primary
instruction in the country. The members of this mission were you
Joseph B. Lochey and José THE, Macknight. They worked of common
agreement in the modification of the programs of physical education
for children, that appeared in that time and they lacked of games.
The taught games were the basketball, the volleyball and the
Handball, but they didn't get to surpass the borders of the country.
Only in 1912, am Montevidéu, in Uruguay, with the presentation and
the incentive of the volleyball for ACM, the first seeds that
produced the wanted fruits appeared.
In
Brazil, they say one that he was practiced, for the first time, in
1915, in the Colégio Marista of Pernambuco, and others that the same
was intriduzido about 1916/1917, by ACM of São Paulo.
The
first South American championship of Volleyball, masculine and
feminine, sponsored by the Brazilian Confederation of Desportos,
entity that controlled that sport, it was accomplished in the Gym of
Fluminense F.C., in Rio de Janeiro, in the period of 12 to September
22, 1951, being champion Brazil, in the masculine and in the
feminine.
The
Brazilian Confederation of Voleiball was created on August 9, 1954
and he had as its first president Mr. Denis Hatthaway.
The
Federação Intrernacional of Volleyball was founded on April 20,
1947, in Paris, France, being the first president Mr. Paul Libaud
and founders the following páiseses: Brazil, Belgium, Egypt, France,
Holland, Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Czechoslovakia,
Ioguslávia, United States and Uruguay.
In
September of 1962, in Sofia's congress, the volleyball was admitted
as Olympic sport and its first dispute by occasion of the Olympic
Games of Tokyo (Japan), in October of 1964, with the presence of ten
countries in the section masculino.O first Olympic champion of
masculine volleyball went the team of to Russia (USSR), champion
vice Czechoslovakia, in 3rd place Japan. Brazil was in 7th place.
The feminine counted with 6 countries, with the selection of Japan
becoming champion, vice Russia, 3rd Poland. Brazil didn't
participate in this competition.
The
creator of the volleyball, William C. Morgam, died on December 27,
1942, with 72 years of age.
