What is Mintonette?
Can you tell me what Mintonette is? No clue? How if I ask you what is volleyball? I bet you can tell me the answer. It's not really surprising because actually not so many people realize that Volleyball and Mintonette are actually the same thing. So how come nobody called it Mintonette anymore Well, that's because the name has officially changed into Volleyball not very long after this remarkable sport was introduced by William Morgan, the YMCA Physical Education Director in Massachusetts.
The story begins in the year of 1895 when a few years earlier, James Naismith of the Springfield YMCA just invented Basketball, a new game that gets a great response by the US sport fans that time. Basketball gained its popularity really quickly especially amongst young people that prefer a game with lots of actions, but basketball also involves intense physical contact and sometimes could be quite rough, therefore not too many older people can enjoy playing this game. Seeing that, William Morgan had an initiative to make a sport as an alternative to basketball that can also be played by older people, he intended to create a sport with less physical contacts but still full of action, and that becomes the beginning of the volleyball history.
In order to create the game like he desired, Morgan combined several different sports that are already known before including Tennis, Baseball, and also Basketball, then he called this new game "Mintonette". From the very beginning, Mintonette was designed to be played indoor and outdoor, but the rules and technique were very much different than what we can see today. In its early days, Mintonette was played out with some very simple rules, the player begins by serving the ball and then they simply need to keep the ball in the air back and forth until one of them faiils and the ball touches the ground, there was akso no limitation of the numper of players can participate in a match.
One of the first improvements of this sport is actually the name, the name Mintonette was thought to be not very much appealing and less descriptive, so according to how the game is played, finally volleyball was chosen to be the proper title of this game. Since then, the name Mintonette is no longer used, and the rules also started to change, in 1917 the score was changed from 21 to 15 and a few years after that the three hits per side rule was introduced.
As volleyball growing in popularity some national and international organizations managing this sport were started to appear, and this made volleyball travel far away from its origin to many different countries. In 1964 volleyball finally being played in the Olympic in Tokyo and this sport quickly becomes one of the most played team sports in the world next to Football and Basketball. The improvements of this sport didn't stop there, it continued to evolved until it initiate the invention of a new kind of sport named Beach Volleyball, and that makes volleyball even more favored by so many people.
The story begins in the year of 1895 when a few years earlier, James Naismith of the Springfield YMCA just invented Basketball, a new game that gets a great response by the US sport fans that time. Basketball gained its popularity really quickly especially amongst young people that prefer a game with lots of actions, but basketball also involves intense physical contact and sometimes could be quite rough, therefore not too many older people can enjoy playing this game. Seeing that, William Morgan had an initiative to make a sport as an alternative to basketball that can also be played by older people, he intended to create a sport with less physical contacts but still full of action, and that becomes the beginning of the volleyball history.
In order to create the game like he desired, Morgan combined several different sports that are already known before including Tennis, Baseball, and also Basketball, then he called this new game "Mintonette". From the very beginning, Mintonette was designed to be played indoor and outdoor, but the rules and technique were very much different than what we can see today. In its early days, Mintonette was played out with some very simple rules, the player begins by serving the ball and then they simply need to keep the ball in the air back and forth until one of them faiils and the ball touches the ground, there was akso no limitation of the numper of players can participate in a match.
One of the first improvements of this sport is actually the name, the name Mintonette was thought to be not very much appealing and less descriptive, so according to how the game is played, finally volleyball was chosen to be the proper title of this game. Since then, the name Mintonette is no longer used, and the rules also started to change, in 1917 the score was changed from 21 to 15 and a few years after that the three hits per side rule was introduced.
As volleyball growing in popularity some national and international organizations managing this sport were started to appear, and this made volleyball travel far away from its origin to many different countries. In 1964 volleyball finally being played in the Olympic in Tokyo and this sport quickly becomes one of the most played team sports in the world next to Football and Basketball. The improvements of this sport didn't stop there, it continued to evolved until it initiate the invention of a new kind of sport named Beach Volleyball, and that makes volleyball even more favored by so many people.