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Volleyball
Title: Volleyball
Category: Literature / English
Details: Words: 612 | Pages: 2.6 (approximately 235 words/page)
Volleyball
Volleyball, perhaps one of the most widely known sports in the world, is, like many other sports, one that had very humble beginnings, but blossomed into a fad that swept across the United States and the world in the space of a few years.
In Holyoke, Massachusetts in 1895, a man named William G. Morgan (the P.E. director of the local YMCA) was looking to create a game for the businessmen that wouldn’t require much physical contact. He blended elements of many sports and …showed first 85 words of 612 total…
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…showed last 85 words of 612 total…simple rules, and enjoyment level. One learns good hand-eye coordination, team skills, defensive/offensive maneuvers, and on the physically beneficial side, works the muscles in the arms and legs, as well as the circulatory and respiratory systems.
More than 210 nations are currently represented in the FIVB (Encarta)...if that doesn’t show that volleyball is one of the most popular sports of all time, I don’t know what will.
Bibliography
“Volleyball,” Microsoft® Encarta® Encyclopedia 2000. © 1993-1999 Microsoft Corporation.
“History/Rules of Volleyball,” http://www.volleyball.org
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