Volleyball Hall of Fame Volleyball Hall of Fame The International Volleyball Hall of Fame (IVHF) was founded to honor extraordinary players, coaches, officials, and leaders who have made significant contributions to the game of volleyball. The Hall of Fame is located in Holyoke, Massachusetts, where volleyball was invented in 1895 by William G. Morgan at the local YMCA. In 1971 the Greater Holyoke Chamber of Commerce established a committee to campaign for the founding of the Volleyball Hall of Fame in Holyoke, Massachusetts. In 1978, the committee incorporated as Holyoke Volleyball Hall of Fame, Inc., a nonprofit corporation established for the purpose of planning,
William S. Morgan Morgan, and his son David Morgan. William S. Morgan William Stephen Morgan (September 7, 1801 – September 3, 1878) was a U.S. Representative from Virginia. Born in Monongalia County, Virginia (now West Virginia), Morgan attended the public schools. He engaged in agricultural pursuits at White Day, Virginia. He was an unsuccessful candidate for election in 1832 to the Twenty-third Congress. Morgan was elected as a Jacksonian to the Twenty-fourth Congress and reelected as a Democrat to the Twenty-fifth Congress (March 4, 1835 – March 4, 1839). He served as chairman of the Committee on Revolutionary Pensions (Twenty-fifth Congress). He declined