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William George Morgan (January 23, 1870 – December 27, 1942) 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 nature of the sport. [1] He was born in Lockport, New York, U.S. [2]
William G. Morgan: January 23, 1870 United States: He is the inventor of volleyball, and the inaugural member of the Volleyball Hall of Fame. [143] 1986: Dr. Harold T. Friermood: September 14, 1902 United States: He is the man who brought volleyball to the Olympics. Beginning in 1944, he was a tireless advocate of getting volleyball into the ...
William G. Morgan (1870–1942), American inventor of the game of volleyball William Llewellyn Morgan (1884–1960), Welsh international rugby union player William A. Morgan (footballer) (born 1914, date of death unknown), English footballer who played as goalkeeper for Coventry City F.C.
William G. Morgan in c. 1915 William G. Morgan invented the sport in 1895 while he was the YMCA physical education director in Holyoke, Massachusetts . [ 6 ] Because he originally derived the game from badminton, he initially named the sport mintonette . [ 7 ]
William G. Morgan, 1893, inventor of volleyball [1] Howard Thurston, 1893, magician; Ernest Yarrow, 1897, director of the Near East Foundation; Belle da Costa Greene, librarian [2] Peter Moss, 1976, basketball player; Juliana R. Force, 1900, art museum director; Pixley Seme, 1902, founder of the African National Congress [1] Chester Barnard ...
George William Manby (1765–1854), UK – Fire extinguisher; Harry Mendell, U.S. – invented the first digital sampling synthesizer; Joy Mangano (born 1956), U.S. – household appliances; Anna Mangin (1844–1931) – American inventor, educator, caterer and women's rights campaigner; Charles Mantoux (1877–1947), France – Mantoux test ...
William Morgan, FRS (26 May 1750 – 4 May 1833) [1] was a Welsh [1] physician, physicist and statistician, who is considered the father of modern actuarial science. He is also credited with being the first to record the "invisible light" produced when a current is passed through a partly evacuated glass tube: "the first x-ray tube".
William G. Morgan, the inventor of volleyball, graduated from Mount Hermon in 1893. [78] NMH also claims to have invented the sport of Ultimate Frisbee in 1968. [79]