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The game of e of the YMCA, designed the game to
be a combination of basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball.
The play consisted of any number of players keeping a ball in motion from one side to the other over a
net raised above the floor. This first volleyball net, borrowed from tennis, was only 6’6″ high (though you
need to remember that the average American was shorter in the nineteenth century). Play is started by a
player on one side serving the ball over the net into the opponents' field or court. The opponents then,
without letting the ball strike the floor, return it, and it is in this way kept going back and forth until
one side fails to return the ball or the ball hits the floor. The side serving the ball earns points when
the opposite side either fails to return the ball or allows the ball to hit the floor.
During a demonstration game, someone remarked to Morgan that the players seemed to be volleying the ball
back and forth over the net, and perhaps "volleyball" would be a more descriptive name for the sport.
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