William G. Morgan Timeline

By ATHRMSEL

  • Birth

    William G. Morgan was born on January 23, 1870, in Lockport

  • James Naismith

    He met the inventor of basket ball, James Naismith at the international training school in Springfield, Massachusetts when he was 21 which helped lead him to inventing volleyball and the rules it has.

  • wedding

    william was married to Mary King Caldwall.

  • Invention: (volleyball) mintonette

    William invented volleyball in
    Holyoke Massachusetts USA which was actually called mintonette and he invented it because he wanted to combined basketball with other sports.

  • volleyball was first in the olympics

    Mens
    The Soviet Union and Czechoslovakia were the top two teams in the round-robin competition and thus earned the gold and silver medals.
    Womans
    The Japan and the Soviet Union women's teams played in the final match, with Japan winning 3-0 to secure the gold medal.

  • Volleyball hall of fame

    William was one of the first poeple to be in the volleyball hall of fame. collage athletic hall
    he would be 115 but he was already dead.