PEH - FINAL EXAM

• Volleyball

  • a sport in which two teams hit a large ball over a high net using their hands played on a rectangular court
  • a team sport played by hitting an inflated ball back and forth over a high net.
  • each team has six players
  • points are scored by successfully landing the ball in the court of the opponents without it being returned successfully.
• • Philippine volleyball players invented set and spike.
  • More than 800 million people in the world play volleyball at least once a week.
  • According to Westlake High School Physical Education Department, the sport burns 364 calories per hour for a 200-pound person.
• • 1895 - William G. Morgan, a graduate of the Springfield College of the YMCA, designed the game to be a combination of basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball.
  • The game was originally called mintonette
  • The first volleyball net was borrowed from tennis was only 6'6 high
• • 1900 - a special ball was designed and introduced in Asia specifically in India.
• • 1910 - Elwood S. Brown (The Physical Director of the YMCA), first introduced volleyball to the Philippines that year.
• • 1916 - an offensive style of passing the ball in a high trajectory to be struck by another player was introduced. The Filipinos developed the "bomba" or kill, and called the hitter a "bomberino"
• • 1917 - the points was changed from 21 to 15
• • 1920 - three hits per side and back row attack rules were instituted
• • 1922 - the first YMCA National Championships were held in Brooklyn, New York. 27 teams from 11 states were represented
• • 1928 - it became clear that tournaments and rules were needed.
  • The United States Volleyball Association was formed (USVBA)
  • The first US Open was staged as the field was open to non-YMCA squads.
• • 1930 - the first two-man beach game was played.
• • 1934 - the approval and recognition of national volleyball referees
• • 1940s - forearm pass was introduced to the game (as a desperation play). Most balls were played with overhand pass
• • 1947 - the Federation Internationale De Volley-Ball was formed in Paris
• • 1948 - the first two-man beach tournament was held
• • 1949 - the first World Championship was held in Prague, Czechoslovakia.
• • 1951 - vb was played by over 50 million people in over 60 countries
• • 1960s - new techniques were added to the game
  • soft spike (dink)
  • forearm pass (bump)
  • blocking across the net
  • defensive diving and rolling
• • 1964 - vb was introduced in Olympic Games in Tokyo
• • 1968 - The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics (NAIA) made volleyball their fifteenth competitive sport
• • 1969 - the Executive Committee of NCAA proposed addition of volleyball to its program.
• • 1974 - the World Championships in Mexico were telecast in Japan
• • 1983 - the Association of Volleyball Professionals was formed
• • 1986 - the Women's Professional Volleyball Association was formed
• • 1987 - FIVB added a beach Volleyball World Championship Series
• • 1989 - the FIVB Sports Aid Program was created
• • 1990 - world league was created
• • 1994 - Volleyball World Wide, the first internet site of vb
• • 1995 - vb was 100 years old
• • 1996 - 2-person beach volleyball was added to the Olympics
• Alfred Halsted - a spectator commented that the game involved much "volleying"