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How and why was the sport of volleyball started?

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How and why was the sport of volleyball started?

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  1. They started kicking and bumping a basket ball with unlimited number of players on each side of a tennis net, just for fun.


  2. Add to the above answers that mintonette was invented as a less strenuous game than basketball.  Basketball was also invented the nearby city in Springfield, Massachusetts.  Mintonette was invented in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

  3. The game of volleyball, originally called "mintonette", was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan, after  the invention of basketball. Morgan designed the game to be a combination of basketball, baseball, tennis and handball. He invented it because everyone got tired of playing the other games.

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