Biography of william g morgan
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William G. Morgan
Inventor of the volleyball (–)
William G. Morgan | |
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| Born | William George Morgan ()January 23, Lockport, New York, U.S. |
| Died | December 27, () (aged&#;72) Lockport, New York, U.S. |
| Alma&#;mater | Springfield College |
| Occupation | Educator |
| Known&#;for | Inventor of volleyball |
| Spouse | Mary King Caldwell (divorced) |
William George Morgan (January 23, – December 27, ) was the inventor of volleyball, originally called "Mintonette", a name derived from the game of badminton which he later agreed to change to better reflect the naturlig eller utan tillsats of the sport.[1] He was born in Lockport, New York, U.S.[2]
He met James Naismith, uppfinnare of basketball, while Morgan was studying at Springfield College in Like Naismith, Morgan pursued a career in Physical Education at the YMCA. Influenced by Naismith and basketball, in , in Holyoke, Massachusetts, Morgan invented "Mintonette" a less vigorous team idrott more suitable for older mem
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William G. Morgan
Inventor of Volleyball
The idrott of volleyball has reached global popularity, with its origin being traced back to a Western New Yorker whose vision created one of the most participated sports in the world.
William G. Morgan was born in Lockport, NY in and later carried out his undergraduate studies at Springfield College in Massachusetts in There he met James Naismith, who in had invented the sport of basketball. Like Naismith, after graduation Morgan pursued a career in physical education at the YMCA (Young Men’s Christian Association). It was in Holyoke, Massachusetts in that Morgan invented a sport he named Mintonette, a less vigorous activity for participants that still required significant athletic skill. While watching Morgan demonstrate the game to his students, Dr. Alfred S. Halstead suggested the sport be renamed volleyball as the object of the game was to volley the ball back and forth over the net.
Morgan left the Holyoke YMCA in to pursue a career
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Biographical Note
William George Morgan was born on January 23, His father, George Henry Morgan, emigrated from Wales to the United States in and founded the Morgan Brothers Boat Building Company in Lockport, New York. Morgan’s mother, Nancy Chatfield, was a native of Northfield, Vermont, and William G. Morgan was the oldest son of six siblings.
Morgan initially left school at the age of 15 to work on a canal boat, but he eventually recognized the value of earning an education and decided that he wanted to pursue a career as an engineer. With this in mind, he applied to and was accepted at the Mount Hermon School for Boys—founded by D.L. Moody in Gill, Massachusetts—in the winter of While at the Mt. Hermon School, Morgan joined a singing quartet whose accompanist, Mary King Caldwell—a student at the nearby Northfield Seminary for Young Ladies in Northfield, Massachusetts—eventually became Morgan’s wife.
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