VOLLEYBALL

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Volleyball's
Olympic program
expands to include
2012
snow volleyball.
The FIVB changes
the scoring system
from side-out to
1998
rally scoring.
The libero poisition
is introduced.
1980s

Electronic scoring
1976 systems are
introduced.
The first official
beach volleyball
tournament is held
in Santa Monica,
California.
In 1895, just four years after Basketball was invented a couple of miles down the road in
Springfield, Massachusetts, a twenty-five year old gym teacher invented the game of
volleyball at the YMCA in Holyoke, Massachusetts.

William Morgan was born on January 23, 1870 in Lockport, NY. He realized that
basketball was much too strenuous for the older gentlemen so he set out to invent a
game for them to play. The first "Mintonette" game was played in December of 1895 and
was a little different from the volleyball we are used to today.
After an observer, Alfred Halstead, noticed the volleying nature of
the game at its first exhibition match in 1896, played at the
International YMCA Training School (now called Springfield
College), the game quickly became known as volleyball (it was
originally spelled as two words: “volley ball“). Volleyball rules
were slightly modified by the International YMCA Training School
and the game spread around the country to various YMCAs.
April 1947 saw the establishment of the Federation
Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB)
Representatives from 14 nations met in Paris under the leadership of France’s
Paul Libaud to set up the association that would govern volleyball at the
international level. Libaud assumed the role of FIVB's first president, a position he
held on to till 1984. The first volleyball World Championships for men was held in
1949 in Prague and in 1952 for women in Moscow.
FIVB has since become one of the world's biggest sporting organizations with 222
affiliated bodies.
While the World Championships continues to be the mega attraction for the game,
the FIVB has added events like the FIVB World League and the FIVB Grand
Champions Cup to its roster over the years, apart from eventually becoming an
Olympic sport.
The Philippine volleyball history dates back to 1910 during the American
colonization. This sport was introduced by an American man known as
Elwood Stanley Brown. He is a renowned sports organizer who made a
massive contribution promoting sports in the Philippines during the colonial
period.
Over time, people in the Philippines started creating volleyball strategies
and rules that significantly influenced how this sport is played today. One
volleyball rule that the Philippines contributed to inventing was the “three-hit
limit.” Filipinos also invented the “spike and set” volleyball strategy.
The first volleyball association formed in the Philippines was the Philippine Amateur Volleyball Association (PAVA.) It was
established in 1961 by Jose N. Reyes, the then director of Playground and Recreation Bureau, Justice Roman Nolasco,
and businessman Tommy Teng. PAVA served as the governing body for volleyball in the Philippines until 2015.
However, in 2003 this Philippine volleyball association’s name was changed to the Philippine Volleyball Federation (PVF)
Unfortunately, a huge leadership dispute arose in 2014, which led to the Larong Volleyball sa Pilipinas (LVPI)
taking over as the governing association for volleyball in the Philippines until 2021.
LVPI was then succeeded by Philippine National Volleyball Federation (PNVF) in 2021.
Currently, the Philippine National Volleyball Federation governs some of the most successful volleyball teams
in the country, such as the Philippine Women’s National Volleyball Team(the Philippines’ National Volleyball
Team) and the Philippine Men’s National Volleyball Team.
Ramon Suzara was re-elected for a fresh two-year term as
President of the Philippine National Volleyball Federation (PNVF)
during the National Federation’s board meeting held at The Vault
in Bonifacio Global City.
Senator Alan Peter Cayetano was named honorary chairman of
the PNVF, while Dr Arnel Hajan was selected as PNVF Chairman.
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The centerline was extended indefinitely.
A tape was put on the net over the sidelines.
Times out were limited to one minute.
A player could not interchange positions or
move outside his understood playing area.
A player could go outside his court to make a
play.

1934
A 3/8-inch cable replaced the 1/4-inch
cable in the top of the net.
1935
Crosses were placed on the floor defining player
positions.
All players were required to wear numbers on their suits.
It became a foul to deliberately screen an opponent
from the server.
Players could not leave their court unless the ball was on
their side of the net. (At this time spikers would stand
outside their court and wait till the ball was set to the
outside of the court and come running in with a one-leg 1937
take-off spike). A third contact ball driven into the
Any touching of the net was a foul. A play was not net causing the net to contact the
complete unless a player resumed normal control on the
opponent was not a foul
floor.
Deliberate shouting and stomping the feet at an A player could re-enter a game
opponent was deemed unsportsmanlike. once.
A substitute was no longer
restricted from talking to his
teammate until the ball was put
into play.
Multiple contacts were allowed in
receiving a hard drive spike.
1938
Blocking was first included in the rules.
A one or two-man block was permitted,
providing the blockers played in adjacent
positions.

1940
•The official ball must be a twelve-piece lace
less leather-covered ball.

1941
Rules are reworded and clarified
1942
Ball could be played with any part of the body
from the knees upward. The score of a
forfeited game would be 15-0.

1947
Only the front line players could
interchange positions to make a two-man
block.
The numbers on players' shirts had to be 4
inches high.
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It is also known as the ‘Kick Volleyball’. It is a team
sport that is commonly played among teams of two
to four players on a court resembling a badminton
court.
It is a combination of volleyball and footvolley as
the players play this sport using only their feet,
knees, shoulders, chest and head to touch the ball.
Sepak Takraw is governed internationally by the
International Sepaktakraw Federation (“ISTAF”)
formed in 1988 that also conducts tournaments
worldwide.
Sepak Takraw is known by different names in different regions. It is known as Sepak Raga in Brunei,
Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore; Rago and Raga in Indonesia; Sipa in the Philippines; Chinlone in
Myanmar; Takraw in Thailand; Kataw in Laos; Sek Dai in Cambodia; Cuju in China; Da Cau in
Vietnam; Jegichagi in Korea and Kemari in Japan.
The main objective of the game is to kick the ball to the other side of the net but within the boundary
of the opponent’s team. One of the teams has to score more points by causing their opponents to
commit a fault to win the game.
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Fistball is an outdoor team sport (called Faustball in German) which has a lot of similarities to
volleyball. The sport has been played for a very long time, but its origin is not very clear.
Fistball was officially codified in the late 1960's and is currently played by both men and
women.
It is a team sport where two teams of five players try to hit a ball over a net into the opponent's
half of the field. It's similar to volleyball, but players can only hit the ball with their closed fist or
arm, and the ball can bounce once before each hit.
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