HISTORY

• William G. Morgan, The Physical Education Director of YMCA, Holyoke, Massachusetts, created the indoor game, incorporating aspects of basketball,handball and tennis called mintonette in 1895.
• It was initially devised as a less strenuous activity than basketball for middle-aged businessmen who attended Young Men's Christian Association YMCA classes.
• DR. ALFRED THOMPSON HALSTED CHANGE MINTONETTE INTO VOLLEYBALL
• The objective was to hit the ball back and forth with the hands. Each team, having any number of players, was permitted three outs before the team forfeited the ball. The game was renamed 'Volleyball' in 1896.
• Earliest rules mandate the game to be played in nine innings on a 25'x 50' court. The serve was hit over 6'6" net. The bladder of the basketball was originally used for the ball, but it was too light, and basketball was too heavy. A.G. Spalding constructed a ball expressly for the game.
• Philippine volleyball history began in 1910 when the Philippines was a United States territory. It was introduced to the Filipinos by an American named Elwood Brown. Early in the history of the game of volleyball in the Philippines, the Filipinos used trees as makeshift net holders (the net was hung between the two chosen trees).
• In 1916, first contribution was that the Filipinos inspired American players to create the "three-hit limit" for each player in modern-day volleyball.
• The second Filipino contribution was the "set and spike" maneuver
• They called it "FILIPINO BOMB" It is an offensive style of passing the ball in high trajectory to be struck by another player (the Set and Spike) was introduced. They developed the 'bomba' or kill, and called the hitter 'bomberino'.
• In 1930, the first 2-man beach volley ball game was played.
• The Federation International de Volleyball (FIVB) was founded in Paris in 1947. In 1964, volleyball was introduced to the Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan. In 1996, 2-man beach volleyball was added to the Olympics.
• PHILIPPINE NATIONAL VOLLEYBALL FEDERATION has been recognize as the National Federation which govern the volleyball in the Philippines. FIVB FEDERATION INTERNATIONAL VOLLEYBALL WORLD CONGRESS APPROVES AFFILIATION OF PHILIPPINE NATIONAL VOLLEYBALL.
• The PNVF was formed in January 2021 following democratic elections held by the Philippine Olympic Committee (POC) in which members from both the Philippine Volleyball Federation (PVF) and Larong Volleyball sa Pilipinas participated.