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THE ASTORIAN • SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 2022
© 2022 by Vicki Whiting, Editor Jeff Schinkel, Graphics Vol. 38, No. 7
hrowing, catching, and hitting a ball is loads of fun. Over
thousands of years, people have invented games to play
using a ball. When people discovered a net could add
something new to a game, more games were invented.
Volleyball was one of those games.
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The History of Volleyball
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In the late 1800s, a man named William
Morgan lived in Springfield, Mass. He and his
friend James Naismith liked to play games.
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In the winter of 1891, Naismith was the
director of the YMCA in Springfield. It was
too cold to ______________ outdoors. He
invented the game of basketball, using a ball
and a couple of peach baskets, to keep young
people in good __________ over the winter.
Morgan started working at the YMCA in the
nearby town of Holyoke in 1895. His friend’s
game of basketball had too much running and
too many ______________ for some of the
members of his club.
Volleyball is played on a court that is
59 feet long and 29.5 feet wide. The
net in the middle is 7.4 feet high.
Using creativity, Morgan studied the rules of
baseball, basketball, handball and badminton.
Taking _______ from each, he invented a new
game he called Mintonette, where teams of
players on each _________ of a net volleyed
or hit a ball back and forth. Points were
scored when one team could not get the ball
back __________ the net.
Volleyball Words
You can find information on how to play volleyball in a book or online. Here are some words to help you
understand the words in a volleyball rule book. Do the math to match each word with its definition.
Volley (2+7)
Serve (6 + 6)
Set (8 - 4)
Bump (5 + 8)
Spike (16 - 5)
Block (3 + 4)
Double (12 - 2)
The rules ____________ over the years.
Even the name changed! As a friend and
former teacher of Morgan’s watched the
game, he saw that much of the game was
spent “volleying” the ball over the net. He
called it Volleyball and the name stuck and
that’s what it was called when the game was
added to the YMCA’s official sports
___________________ in 1896.
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A volleyball net is a grid. Take turns with a pal to connect two
dots with a line. Each time your line completes a box, put your
initial inside and then connect two more dots. When no more
lines can be added, the player with the most boxes wins.
VOLLEYBALL
CONTACT
MORGAN
A T R U O C G A S D
DOUBLE
M E E T E N V P E O
PLAYER
N T Y E V D I R G U
SPIKE
BLOCK
D M A F R K O R E B
SERVE
V O L L E Y B A L L
COURT
X R P S S L N U E E
BUMP
R G S C O E G A M E
GAME
I A S C E T T S T P
GRID
PASS
P N K T C A T N O C
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NET
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Alphabet Verbs
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