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William Morgan wanted an indoor game gentler than basketball was. The figure is taken from Fédération Internationale de Volleyball, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.

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Volleyball was invented in Massachusetts in 1895

William Morgan wanted an indoor game gentler than basketball was Morgan worked at a YMCA in Holyoke and mixed elements of basketball, tennis and handball. The game was first called mintonette and was renamed volleyball after someone noticed the volleying. It spread quickly through YMCA networks and reached Asia within a decade. It sits in Mondo's sports collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Fédération Internationale de Volleyball

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: William Morgan wanted an indoor game gentler than basketball was. The figure is taken from Fédération Internationale de Volleyball, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a sports fact?: Yes. It sits on the Sports shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.