William G. Morgan been referred to as Volleyball. Morgan continued to tweak the rules of the game until July 1896, where his sport was added into the first official handbook of the North American YMCA Athletic League. On July 7, 1896, the first game of volleyball was played at Springfield College. William Morgan left his job at the YMCA in 1897 to start a new career with General Electric and Westinghouse. He stayed in touch with Springfield College and stated that he was "content in the knowledge that the game brought a richer life to millions of people throughout the world." Morgan died
William Morgan (anti-Mason) part of the background story of his popular scientific allegorical novel "Etidorhpa" (1895), on the kidnapping of William Morgan and the start of the Anti-Masonry movement. In his novel "The Craft: Freemasons, Secret Agents, and William Morgan" (2010), the author Thomas Talbot presents a fictional version of the William Morgan kidnapping. He portrays him as a British spy, includes rogue British Masons, and has presidential agents thwart an assassination plot. William Morgan (anti-Mason) William Morgan (1774 – c. 1826) was a resident of Batavia, New York, whose disappearance and presumed murder in 1826 ignited a powerful movement against the Freemasons,