"A study on the history of the game of Volleyball - A Historical Sketch of W. G. Morgan" by Yutaka Mizutani
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A copy of a document tilted "A study on the history of the game of Volleyball - A Historical Sketch of W. G. Morgan" by Yutaka Mizutani. The document outlines a timeline of his life from his birth to his death. Of particular interest is the outline of the period around the creation of the game of Volleyball in 1895.
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Morgan graduated from the Springfield College in 1894 and began work as a physical director in Auburn, Maine. After a year, he relocated to Holyoke, MA where he became a physical director at the Holyoke YMCA. While there, Morgan recognized the need to create a game that middle-aged businessman could play as he found basketball to be too rough and rowdy. Combining elements of badminton and basketball Morgan created the game of volleyball which he originally named "mintonette." Like basketball before it, volleyball quickly gained popularity, first in the YMCAs and then across the United States and around the world. Professor Yutaka Mizutani is an internationally recognized scholar, practioner, teacher, and historian on sport, physical education, Volleyball and Basketball. Over his long career he has been a promoter and creater of many programs to further sport in Japan and beyond. Mizutani is one of the view sport historians who has written extensively and published a book on William Morgan and the creation of Volleyball.
