Holyoke, Massachusetts Honor Award for contributions of teams or organizations to volleyball, the William G. Morgan Award for outstanding support or promotion of the sport, and Mintonette Medallion of Merit Award in recognition of significant individual achievement, including coaches, referees, scorekeepers and other notable contributors to the sport. On February 9, 1895, William G. Morgan invented volleyball, originally known as "mintonette" for its similarity to badminton, at the Holyoke YMCA. Though the original YMCA building in which the sport was first played was lost to fire in 1943, the Greater Holyoke YMCA remains an active chapter. Today the Volleyball Hall of Fame
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