William G. Morgan older members of the YMCA but one that still required athletic skill. Later Alfred S. Halstead watched it being played and renamed it "Volleyball", because the point of the game is to volley the ball back and forth over the net. In 1985, he was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame as the inaugural member. William George Morgan graduated high school at Northfield Mount Hermon School and moved on to attend the YMCA International Training School (Later renamed Springfield College) in Massachusetts with James Naismith, the inventor of basketball. Both Morgan and Naismith pursued careers in Physical Education at
William Duthie Morgan William Duthie Morgan General Sir William Duthie Morgan GCB DSO MC (15 December 1891 – 13 May 1977) was a British Army officer active during World War I and later in World War II where he commanded the Mediterranean Theater of Operations. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, Morgan, he was the son of Alexander Morgan FRSE and his wife Isobel Duthie. The family initially lived at 63 Warrender Park Road in the Marchmont district then moved to 1 Midmar Gardens in the south-west. William was educated at George Watson's College and entered the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich and was commissioned as