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The game of volleyball, originally called âmintonette,â was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan after the invention of basketball only four years before. Morgan, a graduate of the Springfield College of the YMCA, designed the game to be a combination of basketball, baseball, tennis, and handball. The first volleyball net, borrowed from tennis, was only 6â6â³ high (though you need to remember that the average American was shorter in the nineteenth century).
This memorial was begun in 1912 by the hand of architect Henry Bacon who made the design. The building itself is much like the Parthenon. It is designed as a Greek Doric temple; many people thought this memorial did not go with Lincolnâs character, as he was a very humble man. They had proposed another design, a simple log cabin to honor him, but it was not enough so they kept on with the original design.