pe years

• Invention of volleyball by William G. Morgan

  1895
• Introduction of a special volleyball ball

  1900
• Introduction of volleyball to the Philippines by Elwood S. Brown

  1910
• Development of the "set and spike" offensive style in the Philippines

  1916
• Change in scoring from 21 to 15 points

  1917
• First YMCA national championships in Brooklyn, NY

  1922
• Formation of the United States Volleyball Association (USVBA)

  1928
• First two-man beach game

  1930
• Approval and recognition of national volleyball referees

  1934
• Introduction of the forearm pass

  1940
• Founding of the Federation Internationale De Volley-Ball (FIVB) in Paris

  1947
• First two-man beach tournament

  1948
• First World Championships in Prage, Czechoslovakia

  1949
• Addition of new techniques: soft spike (dink), forearm pass (bump), blocking across the net, defensive diving and rolling

  1960
• Inclusion of volleyball in the Olympic Games in Tokyo

  1964
• Volleyball becomes the fifteenth competitive sport of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA)

  1968
• Telecast of the World Championships in Mexico in Japan

  1974
• Formation of the Association of Volleyball Professionals (AVP)

  1983
• Formation of the Women's Professional Volleyball Association (WPVA)

  1986
• FIVB establishes a Beach Volleyball World Championship Series

  1987
• FIVB creates the Sports Aid Program

  1989
• Creation of the World League

  1990
• Launch of Volleyball World Wide, the first internet site on volleyball

  1994
• 100th anniversary of volleyball

  1995
• Addition of 2-person beach volleyball to the Olympics

  1996
• Over 50 million people worldwide playing volleyball annually

  1951