As the history of volleyball progressed, volleyball became a much more organized sport and also gained more recognition. It was a very popular game because it was cheap to play– players did not have to worry about purchasing rackets or any other equipment. Also, it’s simplicity made it adaptable to many environments, teams could play indoor volleyball or outdoor volleyball.

As the sport of volleyball became more competitive, players began to develop new techniques to stay ahead in the game. These new techniques helped out individual players and also the team as a whole. Strategies were developed to unite the team and volleyball drills were put together in practices in order to bring the unity into the volleyball teams.

Even though the game was quite popular at this point in volleyball history, there were still no single set of rules that was developed to maintain a consistency with the game. Many of the rules were similar, but the volleyball rules varied between men’s volleyball and women’s volleyball and also between countries. Additionally, there were varying rules for the different organizations that played volleyball– for example, high school volleyball and college volleyball had 2 different sets of rules to follow.

Volleyball history shows that by the 1920’s many other countries had caught on to the popular sport. Leagues were formed in numerous countries outside of the United States. In 1923 volleyball was officially recognized as a national sport by the National Amateur Athletic Federation (NAAF). The NAAF began to organize volleyball competitions for players of all skill levels. During this time frame intramural volleyball also became very popular.

By 1928 volleyball had become so popular that an official volleyball organization was formed to govern the game. This organization was called the United States Volleyball Association (USVBA). The USVBA published an official volleyball rule book and organized volleyball tournaments among many other things.

Once the game was organized in th United States, other countries began to unify the sport of volleyball, they wanted to create an international organization. However, World War II started and the organization came to a halt. The game was still played during the war by many troops, soldiers played volleyball for recreation and fitness.

After the war finished, some of the volleyball tournaments in Europe resumed. In 1947 the Federation Internationale de Volleyball (FIVB) was formed by volleyball federations in several European countries. They declared their intention to setup organized tournaments in Europe or even world championships. The FIVB set up headquarters in Paris and the group decided to standardize the volleyball rules. The standard court size was set to 21.5 by 10.67 meters and the net height was set– 2.28 meters for mens volleyball and 2.13 meters for womens volleyball. Additionally, the FIVB set that the volleyball team would consist of 9 players: three players in each of the three lines.