Older Than deck / Places, institutions and traditions
Volleyball
Invented
1895
Invented four years after basketball, also at a YMCA in Massachusetts.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-10-19: Claude (AI build agent): Wikidata statement compared, passages containing the year extracted from the fetched pages and read. Quotes are short passages from each source, in their original language.
Wikidata P575: 1895Q1734, CC0, retrieved 2026-10-19
“Volley Av Lise Åserud /NTB Scanpix. Lisens: Avgrensa gjenbruk Volleyball blei konstruert av KFUM -leiaren William G. Morgan i 1895. Den gongen blei spelet kalla for mintonette. Spelet kom til Europa med amerikanske”Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian): source, retrieved 2026-10-19“program i 1996, mens det første officielle danmarksmesterskab blev afholdt i 1994. Historie Volleyball blev introduceret i 1895 af den amerikanske idrætslærer William P. Morgan (1870-1942) i Massachusetts i USA”Lex (Den Store Danske) (in Danish): source, retrieved 2026-10-19
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