William G. Morgan air and in gyms as well as the objective of the game was to keep the ball in action as it goes from one side of the high net, to the other. One of the conference delegates, Professor Alfred T. Halsted, loved the game of Mintonette, but he felt like something was just not right. Professor Halsted suggested that the name of the game should be Volleyball, since the main point of the game was to “volley” the ball to a player or over the net. Morgan agreed with Halsted's idea and since then the original game of “Mintonette” has
William Yoast Morgan of a Jayhawker" (1905), "A Jayhawker in Europe" (1911), "The Near East" (1913), and ""Yurrup" As Is" (1926). Morgan Elementary School in Hutchinson is named in his honor. William Yoast Morgan William Yoast Morgan (born Cincinnati, Ohio April 6, 1866; died Hutchinson, Kansas, February 17, 1932) was an American newspaperman, author, and politician. He was the lieutenant governor of Kansas from 1915 to 1919 serving under Governor Arthur Capper. Morgan's grandfather James Morgan emigrated from Ireland in 1847, settling in Cincinnati. Morgan's father William Albert Morgan (1841-1917) was apprenticed to a printer and then served in the Civil War. In