The History of Volleyball

                                Volleyball was invented in 1895 by William J. Morgan, who was physical education director of the YMCA in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He developed the game to provide an indoor game for the winter months in which relatively large groups of men could participate in a small gym. The principal features of tennis were employed, but the net was raised and the players struck the bladder of a basketball with their hands instead of racquets.

He intended to create a game for his classes of business when which would demand less physical contact then basketball .Originally the game was called mignonette.

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.

In 1964, Volleyball was introduced to the Olympic Games in Tokyo. In 1984, the United States Men's and Women's teams won medals for the first time. Men’s won gold, Women won silver.

Today there are 24 million Americans who play Volleyball. There are over 800 million people worldwide who play Volleyball at least once a week

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Playing cards history |History of playing cards

First recorded use of playing cards is from 1371 in Spain. Tarot games first played in Italy 1430's.Poch card game, ancestor to Rummy Royale (circa 1440). Standard card suits in France circa 1480  

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Edmund Hoyle (1672 - 1769) writes a series of books (“Short Treatise”) on card and board games of the era (the best known ones were his rules for Whist and backgammon). Cards used for Fortune-telling (Cartomancy) first documented in 1781 in “Le Monde Primitif” by Antoine Court de Gébelin.During the 19th Century AD, Bridge develops from earlier games.


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Chess game history|History of chess game

First developed in India and Persia.Considered THE complex game of strategy and inventiveness.The game of chess is said to be one of the oldest games of skills known to man. Some historians date it as early as the 2nd century, and its country of origin to be China. In China, at that time people were playing a game very similar to chess called Xiangqi. Yet others think that chess  originated in India around 6th century where it was played as Chatarangam.

The spread of the game of chess from its cradle near present day Iran following trade routes to north Africa and the Roman Empire (Spain and Italy) and eventually inland and northward to Russia, Germany, and Scandinavia.

The first documented chess tournament was held in the year 1851 at London and Adolf Anderssen, a German national, won it. This was however, an unofficial tournament and hence there was no title or any reward. Andersen was beaten by Paul Morphy (an American citizen) a little later. The first official tournament took place in London in 1856. This time Steinitz who was a Chechoslovanian national won it. Although third in the line, Steinitz entered the annals of the history as the first official champion of a chess tournament. He kept the title for four decades, till 1894 when Emanuel Lasker beat him.

The first documented chess tournament was held in the year 1851 at London and Adolf Anderssen, a German national, won it. This was however, an unofficial tournament and hence there was no title or any reward. Andersen was beaten by Paul Morphy (an American citizen) a little later. The first official tournament took place in London in 1856. This time Steinitz who was a Chechoslovanian national won it. Although third in the line, Steinitz entered the annals of the history as the first official champion of a chess tournament. He kept the title for four decades, till 1894 when Emanuel Lasker beat him.

In 1921 Jose Casablanca who is considered one of the best ever chess players in the world, took the title form Emanuel. Two other share the honor if being know as the best ever players, i.e. Bobby Fischer and Morphy. Fischer became a world champion at the tender age of only 14! He was the first American to claim the title.



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Cricket History | History of cricket

 History of cricket

No one knows when or where cricket began but there is a body of evidence, that strongly suggests the game was devised during Saxon or Norman times by children living in the Weald, an area of dense woodlands and clearings in south-east England that lies across Kent and Sussex. In medieval times, the Weald was populated by small farming and metal-working communities. It is generally believed that cricket survived as a children's game for many centuries before it was increasingly taken up by adults around the beginning of the 17th century.
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Growth of Test Cricket

Test cricket remained the sport's highest level of standard throughout the 20th century but it had its problems, notably in the infamous “Bodyline Series" of 1932–33 when Douglas Jardine’s England used so-called "leg theory" to try and neutralise the run-scoring brilliance of Australia's Donald Bradman.
When the Imperial Cricket Conference (as it was originally called) was founded in 1909, only England, Australia and South Africa were members. India, West indies and New Zealand became Test nations before the Second World War and Pakistan soon afterwards. The international game grew with several "affiliate nations" getting involved and, in the closing years of the 20th century, three of those became Test nations also: Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe and Bangladesh.




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