Month: July 2022

History of Volleyball in the United States

1895 William G. Morgan (1870-1942) invented volleyball, an Olympic sport since 1964, in Holyoke (Massachusetts). 1917 American soldiers introduced volleyball to Europe. Volleyball is one of the most popular sports in Russia, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria and Yugoslavia. 1954 Flora “Flo” Hyman, former world-class player (1973-1984), was born on July 29, 1954 in Inglewood, California. […]

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